Meet Balamurali Kothandaraman, a highly experienced technology leader who specializes in IT architecture, digital transformation strategy, DevSecOps, cloud migration strategy, and application development. He has a Master's degree in Information Security and Database Administration from Boston University and a Bachelor's in Engineering from Bharathidasan University. With over 6 years of experience as a Director of Architecture at Standard & Poor's, he honed his skills in enterprise architecture, cloud implementation strategy, workflow automation, compliance remediation, and reference architecture. Presently, as Global Chief Architect at Pershing LLC, a BNY Mellon company, Balamurali's responsible for architecture governance through review board, end-to-end solution architecture, API strategy and governance, internal cloud, implementation assistance, and aligning delivery to their reference architecture.

Balamurali is highly driven in application development, complete SOA blueprint, service delivery management, certification management, vendor-relationship, and offshore management. He is a globally recognized speaker and workshop modulator who presented at Liferay North America Symposium 2013, JavaOne 2008, JavaOne 2004, and various BEAWorld conferences, covering a wide range of topics like enterprise architecture principles and methodologies, SOA, event-driven architecture, smart portlets, and JMX MBeans for system resource configuration and monitoring.