Bala Subrahmanyam Varanasi

Chief Technology Officer at The Wedding Brigade

Mumbai, India, India

Summary

Languages:

English, Hindi, Telugu

Favorite Python Packages:

django, django-oscar, scikit-learn, numpy, matplotlib, ansible, flask

Experience

- Since May’17 with “The Wedding Brigade”, Sitara Digital Ventures Pvt Ltd, Mumbai

Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• Strategy, planning, and Design

• Take end-to-end ownership of the product, identify market requirements, define the product vision, create preliminary design concepts and shape overall technology and product roadmap by collaborating with the founder, business development, and marketing team
• Ensure user oriented design is the primary approach to product development across multiple screens, based on user behaviour data and direct customer feedback
• Keep eye for technology and competitive landscape to stay ahead of the trends and competition

• Attract, Retain and Grow high-performing talent
  • Reinvent and refocus on talent acquisition
  • Continuously develop deeper skills
  • Build a work environment that fosters passion and engagement

• Implementation And Deployment
  • Collaborate with team and customers to define use cases
  • Creation of wireframes, sitemaps and user-flows for web and mobile applications
  • Code the front-end and back-end platforms yourself

• Operational Management
  • Support marketing by implementing technical requirements for SEO/product analytics
  • Establish and supervise a quality assurance process, including integration & system testing
  • Rigorously monitor key performance metrics and coordinate with various teams to take corrective actions if needed
  • Establish and forecast ROI of features and succinctly articulate competitive advantage

ENTREPRENEURSHIP EXPERIENCE

Aug’14 to Apr’15 with Firebolt Labs Pvt Ltd, Bhimavaram

Founder

Role:

• Headed the day-to-day-operations, as well as handled the company’s product and consulting projects by leading a team of three interns

PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE

Nov’15 to May’17 with Glitterbug Technology Pvt Ltd, Mumbai

Senior Software Engineer

Apr’15 to Nov’15 with TinyOwl Technology Pvt Ltd, Mumbai

Software Engineer

Sep’13 to Jul’14 with Crypsis Technologies Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad

Software Engineer

Dec’11 to Aug’13 with Agiliq Info Solutions Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad

Software Developer

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Linux, Python, Django, Flask, Javascript, Android, ReactJS, React Native, Flask, Ansible, Docker, AWS and Ruby-on-rails

PROJECTS MANAGED

Django Applications:

• The Wedding Brigade
• CoverFox Insurance, an online insurance destination
• Sufo, an Educational Video site for Physicians
• Feature Developments in Suggestar
• Customized the Django Admin CMS for CineSport, an innovative web video syndication company

Ruby on Rails Applications:

• TinyOwl, a food ordering application
• Mr Delicious, an online food delivery system
• Investment Club by StockViews
• Virtual Analyst by Analytics Intelligence
• Feature Developments and Test Cases Development in Mega Golf Virtual League

Android Applications:

• “Windows Ambassador”, an application by Microsoft
• “Where's My App?”, checks the availability status of apps and games in the Windows Phone Store
• “Baby Names”, a simple android app to choose a baby name

Open Source:

• Feature Development in django-graphos
• Bugfixes and pep8 improvements in scikit-learn
• pep8 improvements in joblib
• Sentiment Analyzer, a simple sentiment classification tool for Telugu Language
• Feature Improvements and Test Cases in Join.agiliq.com

PUBLICATIONS

• “Python Requests Essentials”, a book which showcases fundamental as well as advanced Python Requests concepts (ISBN-10: 1784395412) (ISBN-13: 978-1784395414)

Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Celery, Django, Django Channels, ReactJS