About

Balaji Rajagopalan is a highly experienced and passionate technologist with over 20 years of experience in AI, digital transformation, data leadership, and machine learning. He has successfully handled challenging roles across the globe through a combination of leadership, technology, analytics, and domain skills. Balaji has proven experience in establishing fully functional Analytics CoE with cross-functional teams comprising Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and Machine Learning Engineers. He is an entrepreneurial-minded team leader who fosters a collaborative, technology, innovation-driven culture by guiding, mentoring, and inspiring creativity across diverse analytics teams. Balaji is a seasoned Big Data and AI evangelist with strong expertise in solutioning, developing, and operationalizing complex AI data pipelines in both on-premise as well as in the cloud. He has around 14+ years of experience in architectural and thought leadership activities for various advanced analytics, Big Data, and ML projects and realized them at enterprise scale. Balaji has 40+ technical certifications across various enterprise technology stacks like Big Data, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Data Virtualization, IoT, Blockchain, NLP, SOA, Enterprise Architecture, Mobile platform, Portal, and Web Service, among others. Currently, Balaji is the Vice President - AI | Data Engineering | Emerging Technologies at Tiger Analytics, where he provides vision, strategy, and thought leadership to customers in embracing AI, Big Data, and Machine learning solutions. He has established a fully functional analytics CoE with cross-functional teams that include Data Engineers, Data Scientist, and Machine Learning Engineers. Balaji provides data solutions via Data Fabric, Data Virtualization, and Data Mesh architectural patterns and helps customers deploy multi-cloud data product solutions. Balaji has worked with Tiger Analytics in the past, where he was an Associate Vice President - Data Engineering & Advanced Analytics and a Practice Head - Big Data and Advanced Analytics. In these roles, he was responsible for driving growth, profitability, capabilities, and client satisfaction through effective participation in resource management, pre/post-sales support, delivery management, leadership, and client satisfaction. Balaji owned the overall data strategy for enterprise clients by building and deploying Data and Analytics (DnA) service offerings from ideation through to implementation utilizing Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, and Big Data technologies. He has strong expertise in realizing advanced analytics across Insurance life cycle that includes UW data prefill, improving straight through processing (STP), Augmented risk prediction, Fraud detection, etc. Balaji has a Master's degree in Software