Preetam Balijepalli
@preetambalijepalli
Data, ML, and engineering leader building production data platforms, geospatial ML, and cloud-native systems that scale.
What I'm looking for
I’ve built data platforms, ML systems, and engineering teams that scale across India, the US, and the EU—working directly with customers and owning product decisions. From BFSI to AgTech, Smart Mobility to geospatial and retail, I focus on engineering that ships.
At Datasee.AI, I’ve strengthened engineering and data science practices while scaling a digital twin platform for solar, wind, and transmission assets. I led a cloud-native modular redesign that reduced deployment cycles by ~40%, and I built vision-based defect detection and predictive maintenance to improve uptime by ~25%.
Before that, I led data product and platform efforts at Out of the Blue and designed AWS-based, self-service MLOps-style workflows at Syngenta. I’ve also architected big-data location intelligence at Pitney Bowes and led India engineering teams at Tieto—bridging architecture, security, and delivery across the full ML/model lifecycle.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
As Chief Technologist at Datasee, I focus on strengthening engineering and data science practices, scaling our digital twin platform, improving defect detection, and tightening security and audit processes. My work centers on applying geospatial, computer vision, and drone-based technologies to improve efficiency and decision-making in energy asset management.
Led the redesign of a cloud-native,
Helping startups in their Micro services and Frontends, Data/ML and Platform engineering practices
Freelance Consultant
Self-employed
Jan 2023 - Apr 2023 (3 months)
Helped startups with microservices, frontends, data/ML, and platform engineering practices.
Founding Engineering Head | Head of Data Products
Out of the Blue
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 3 months)
Built a robust data products ecosystem driving data-driven growth, including scalable data pipelines, advanced analytics, and secure AWS infrastructure.
Founding Engineering Head | Head of Data Products/ Director Engineering
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 3 months)
As Head of Data at Out of the Blue, I have played a pivotal role in building a robust data products ecosystem that drives the company's data-driven growth. My work spans Security, Data Ops, Modeling, Architecture, and Orchestration, with a focus on transforming data into actionable insights.
Key Accomplishments:
Data Engineering: Architected and implemented scalable data pipelines and dynamic DA
As a Data + ML Solution Architect, I lead the development and implementation of big data solutions using open-source libraries and distributed systems in collaboration with data science team members.
I design and implement a self-service platform for efficient development and automated deployment and scaling of ML models in production. I assemble large, complex data sets to support data science
As a product owner, I have crafted user stories and non-user requirements while effectively managing backlogs and stakeholder expectations. I have a proven ability to inspire, lead, and grow a team.
I was responsible for developing a compelling technical vision and strategy that was aligned with business needs, and for architecting and managing the infrastructure to support all stages of the mach
As a Senior Principal Architect, I lead and mentor a team of data engineers, solution architects, and QA personnel to create big-data products for location intelligence. These products are used by various BFSI and Telecom vendors to solve addressing, fraud detection, route determination, geocoding, and property enrichment with respect to fire and shoreline crime risk data. Mobile trace data enrich
As the leader of the India Engineering Team, I have:
Led the development of urban mobility, IIOT, and greenfield projects, with a focus on test automation, architecture, and microservices.
Collaborated with Product Management to define features and prioritize backlogs.
Extracted Functional and NFR requirements from higher-level technical specifications, and documented TUCs, Architecture road-ma
Develop cloud-enabled open source platform PAAS platform(TOAS) for development.
Architect and hosting a portfolio of data products including Big Data, Search, and Analytics based on market research
Delivering solutions in the big data area using the Hadoop ecosystem and No SQL, Also set up effective monitoring & alerting of the cluster
Telecom analytics use case delivered, also construct a cus
Successfully refactored legacy code to industry standard patterns, increasing the maintainability and scalability of the system.
Implemented migration of applications from Spring batch Framework to IBM Compute Grid (JSR-352), resulting in improved performance and cost efficiency.
Provided Agile coaching to the team, resulting in more accurate project estimations and better project management.
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As a senior architect and developer, I am responsible for leading the development of winning proposals in collaboration with the creative team, keeping abreast of competitors.
I have experience in developing and managing relationships with strategic partners, and executing deals with new and existing clients.
Additionally, I lead scope discussions for quarterly releases with customers, partici
As a Senior architect/developer in Equity Research and Modelware, I have a track record of helping investors and analysts uncover value by providing accurate and reliable data.
I have experience in developing solutions that aid in valuation, performance measurement, credit analysis, capital budgeting, and debt covenants, among many others. I have developed and implemented a time-based alerting s
Senior Associate
Cognizant Technologies
Sep 2005 - Apr 2006 (7 months)
Led development of Basel-II compliant core banking solution for CIBC and designed caching abstraction layer for JP Morgan.
As a Senior Architect and Developer, I have extensive experience leading the development of:
complex and mission-critical projects for financial institutions, a J2EE-based Basel-II compliant core banking solution for CIBC
Proficient in in-memory caching solutions and have adopted JSR-107 for caching and designed an abstraction layer to integrate with existing systems for clients such as JP Morga
As a Senior Developer for client T.Rowprice Investments., I have:
Led the re-engineering and migration of legacy applications to J2EE and Websphere platforms, resulting in improved performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
Redesigned desktop and applet-based applications to web-based, resulting in increased user convenience and better accessibility.
Migrated CORBA-based distributed applica
As a Lead Developer, I built an Epicentric Portal-based survey application and a "one-click" embedded browser toolbar for the IEEE Computer Society. This project was a success, resulting in a 50% increase in survey response rate and an increase in user satisfaction.
Additionally, I delivered an interface between Epicentric Portal and Lotus Domino environment, Notes Connector for American Express
As a Senior Developer, I was responsible for leading the development of an engineering corporate portal for the General Motor Electromotive Division. The portal enabled clients to purchase locomotive parts and view technical documentation efficiently. I successfully integrated the portal with the ERP system, resulting in streamlined purchase order and inventory tracking processes. This project was
As a Programmer Analyst, I was responsible for developing an ERP solution for an International School in India. The solution was designed to streamline various school operations including student information management, financial management, and human resource management. I was responsible for the full software development life cycle from requirements gathering to system design, development, testi
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Master of Technology - MTech, AI/ML
2023 - 2025
Math Foundations (Linear Algebra, Probability), Core ML (Regression, KNN, Boosting), Deep Learning (ANN, RNN, LSTM), Generative Models (VAE, GANs, Diffusion), Graph AI (GCN, GAT, GraphSAGE), Vision (U-Net, ViT, YOLO), NLP & LLMs (Transformers, RAG, SLMs), Reinforcement & Agentic AI, and Scalable ML (Compression, Distillation, Distributed Training, Optimization).
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Master of Technology, AI/ML
2023 - 2025
Pursuing Master of Technology in AI/ML covering deep learning, generative models, and scalable ML.
Punjab Technical University
Msc, Information Technology
2000 - 2001
Punjab Technical University
Master of Science, Information Technology
2000 - 2001
Completed Master of Science in Information Technology.
Andhra University
BSc, Computers
1998 - 1999
Andhra University
Bachelor of Science, Computers
1998 - 1999
Completed Bachelor of Science in Computers.
Andhra University
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics Physics Chemistry
1994 - 1998
Completed Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Druid
Ehcache
Highcharts
AWS IAM
GitHub
GitLab
JaCoCo
Apache CXF
Kubernetes
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Jupyter
Pandas
Dask
Dataiku
PostGIS
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
MariaDB
Memcached
Hadoop
Databricks
OpenCV
Redis
Gradle
Java 8
Vue.js
AngularJS
JavaScript
Java
Java EE
XML
Logstash
PyTorch
MLflow
Kubeflow
DataRobot
Neptune
FastAPI
Grafana
Kibana
Zabbix
Nagios
GraphQL
Elasticsearch
Avro
Ansible
AWS Lambda
Serverless
TestNG
Mockito
DbUnit
Arquillian
Keycloak
NGINX
Apache Tomcat
Airflow
Memcached Cloud
SQL
Amazon SageMaker
Polars
Agentic
Kedro
Hazelcast
Middleware
Core ML
Method
X++
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
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