Balki Raman is an accomplished technology leader with over 14 years of experience specializing in digital transformation, solution architecture, and project management across industries such as e-commerce, telecom, retail, pharma, and banking. Currently serving as Chief Technology Officer at Vinomofo, Sydney, Balki spearheads large-scale digital transformations, leveraging advanced cloud-based architectures and fostering cross-functional collaboration.
Throughout his career, Balki has successfully led multiple high-impact projects. At Vinomofo, he drove the transformation of their e-commerce storefronts. Prior to this, at Scentre Group, he established their GCP Data Engineering Practice, embedding solutions like Cloud Dataflow and DBT, while improving their engineering discipline.
Balki’s expertise extends to building and managing high-performing teams. At The Big Red Group, he led their ecommerce transformation from their in-house platform to Salesforce Commerce Cloud.
His technical acumen spans platform engineering, real-time data architecture (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), and cloud solutions (AWS, GCP), with a hands-on approach to balancing strategic and tactical solutions. Balki is also a proactive advocate for cost optimization, asynchronous work models, and employee-first leadership.
Driven by a belief in software as both science and art, Balki continues to deliver scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient technology solutions while fostering a collaborative and empathetic work culture.
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