Karthikraj Balasubramaniam is a seasoned technology leader with extensive experience in cloud and digital transformation, open banking, data security, program delivery, agile methodologies, vendor management, DevOps concepts, and automation in large-scale, highly regulated financial markets environments. With over 17 years of industry experience, he has demonstrated an aptitude for directing cross-functional, global COE cloud teams.

Karthikraj holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Software Engineering from Periyar University and has completed HSC Computer Science from Ashram Higher Secondary School, Erode.

Over the course of his career, Karthikraj has held high-ranking positions at some of the world's most esteemed organizations. He is currently the Vice President at Citi Bank and has previously held Assistant Vice President positions at Citi Bank, Application Consultant at Dell, Technical Project Manager at Wipro Technologies, System Architect at Optimum Solutions (S) Pte Ltd Singapore, Senior System Administrator at Wipro Technologies, Linux/Websphere Administrator at Radiant Info Systems Ltd and Linux Administrator at DIBUS TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS.

Karthikraj's professional skills include expertise in public cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, PaaS technologies such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry and RedHat Openshift, and CaaS technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, CRI-O. He is also proficient in application servers administration (IBM Websphere Application Server 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.5, Websphere Portal, and Weblogic 10.1, Tomcat), web servers (Apache, Nginx, IBM HTTP Server, OHS, Sun One iPlanet), messaging (Tibco EMS, Tibco BW/BE/Adaptor/Hawk, Tibco ActiveMatrix BPM, IBM Websphere MQ, Kafka, Solace), SSO Tool (Siteminder 5.5/6.0), operating systems (Solaris 8 & 10, AIX 6.1/5.3/5.2, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux), file transfer (NDM Connect Direct), data processing (IBM Infosphere Datastage 8.5), scripting (JACL, Jython, Shell scripts), performance monitoring (Wily, Appdynamics), cache management (Gemfire, Redis, CouchBase), and log management (Splunk, Elastic Search, Kibana, Logstash). Karthikraj has worked with all Linux flavors, AIX, Windows, and Solaris operating systems.