Hi, I'm Satish Balakrishnan
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Cloud Solutions Architect with multi-skillset and multi-domain experience, helping organisations elevate applications, infrastructure, and operations to the cloud. I have worked across presales, postsales, consulting, and delivery, and I enjoy partnering with startups and scale-ups whenever I can.
About
I am a Cloud Solutions Architect focusing on cloud infrastructure and application innovation for strategic customers, often across multi-country and multi-year committed deals.
My work involves guiding customers through end-to-end digital transformation journeys, from initial pilots and proofs of concept to scaled production deployments aligned to evolving business needs.
To help customers mitigate risk and accelerate value, I lead architectural design sessions, Cloud Adoption Framework assessments, and Well-Architected Framework reviews.
I frequently speak at customer and partner events and have received the Microsoft Event Speaker Silver Award.
While I have worked across multiple domains, a significant portion of my experience has been in healthcare and financial services.
One of my proudest professional milestones was leading a team at a fast-paced startup from inception to acquisition within four years.
I love helping others grow. I mentor on MentorCruise, where I am rated as one of their top mentors.
Experience
- Work with global strategic accounts to design secure, scalable, and cost-optimized Azure architectures.
- Lead cloud migration programs, modernization initiatives, and Well-Architected Framework engagements.
- Drive landing zone design, governance, and architecture best practices across multi-region deployments.
- Contribute to Microsoft IP via automated assessment scripts used across enterprise customers.
- Act as a contributor to Microsoft technical documentation, improving clarity and accuracy for Azure services.
- Led cloud strategy, transformation roadmaps, and enterprise architecture for major Australian clients.
- Directed teams delivering cloud foundations, DevSecOps automation, and secure platform designs.
- Owned complex RFP/RFT responses, executive presentations, and client demos.
- Provided thought leadership across Azure, Kubernetes, and modern engineering practices.
- Architected cloud adoption programs for strategic enterprise customers in Southeast Asia.
- Delivered Cloud Adoption Framework, landing zone, and Well-Architected reviews.
- Resolved complex platform issues through deep technical troubleshooting.
- Championed hybrid cloud solutions using Azure Arc and multi-cloud connectivity.
- Served as presales architect for cloud, containers, and DevSecOps solutions.
- Delivered proofs of concept, pilots, and reference architectures for enterprise customers.
- Responded to technical and commercial RFPs and RFIs.
- Upskilled internal technical and sales teams on emerging cloud technologies.
- Provided technology advisory services for financial services institutions.
- Led large-scale cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
- Drove DevOps transformation and platform automation programs.
- Built and operated a private cloud platform for healthcare and genomics workloads.
- Defined technology stack, architecture, and operational strategy.
- Managed engineering teams, day-to-day operations, and technology budgets.
- Presented solutions to customers, onboarded new clients, and ensured customer satisfaction.
- Led a large cloud migration program for a telecommunications client.
- Implemented deployment automation using configuration management and DevOps tooling.
- Delivered multiple cloud-based projects while managing technical teams.
- Developed PERL-based tools to identify potential drug targets using 3D structural data.
- Containerized research code to make it portable and reusable by other researchers.
- Developed automated testing frameworks for web applications.
- Implemented browser automation using Bash and Ruby scripts.
- Performed cancer research using bioinformatics and computational biology.
- Helped set up bioinformatics labs and tools at the institute.
- Co-authored multiple publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Publications
- A Sequence and Structure Based Method to Predict Putative Substrates, Functions and Regulatory Networks of Endo Proteases
- Direct Ubiquitin Independent Recognition and Degradation of a Folded Protein by the Eukaryotic Proteasomes - Origin of Intrinsic Degradation Signals
- Structural interrogation of phosphoproteome identified by mass spectrometry reveals allowed and disallowed regions of phosphoconformation
- Taking the Blockchain Route To Decentralizing Smart Cities
- Blockchain and Healthcare Data: Tracking and Sharing Healthcare Data
- Blockchain: The Evolution That Election Process Needs
Book
Articles
Skills
Skills and Certifications
Azure Fundamentals
Azure AI Fundamentals
Azure Data Fundamentals
Azure Administrator Associate
Azure Solutions Architect Expert
AWS Developer Associate
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
Certified Terraform Associate
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Event Speaker Silver Award
OpenHack – Containers
OpenHack – Security
Global Hackathon 2021
Global Hackathon 2022
Education
School of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics – D. Y. Patil University
Navi Mumbai, India
Degree: Master of Technology in Bioinformatics
Vivekanand Education Society – Mumbai University
Mumbai, India
Degree: Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology