Ravi Balwada Email Address

Global Vice President Digital Engineering, Innovation Labs and Operations

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VICE PRESIDENT / CTO / GM - SaaS ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ SaaS Transformation & Management ♦ Cloud Strategic & Tactical Planning ♦ DevOps ♦ Site Reliability ♦ Architecture & Infrastructure ♦ R&D ♦ P&L ♦ Cloud based Product Engineering & Business Development ♦ Turnarounds ♦ Startups ♦ Venture Capital ♦ Market Expansion / Global Alliances ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ My passions are developing innovative SaaS products & building global operations that delight customers. I have proven leadership in these areas through my work at Amazon, Carlyle, Oracle, BMC, SumTotal Systems and Corelogic Dorado. Executive strengths: ► Anticipating market needs and creating SaaS Products to drive subscription growth and margin ► Building reliable, autonomic, scalable, visible and profitable SaaS Operations ► Creating cross-functional Collaboration for continuous innovation and Customer Experience I am an entrepreneur and a transformational technology executive who thrives on creating and scaling businesses and technology platforms. I see the big picture and sweat the details that matter. I drive and align strategies across the organization, and utilize LEAN OPERATIONS for efficiency and AGILE PRACTICES to execute rapidly. I specialize in technology architecture and operations for massive scale. Blending technology and business management expertise, I identify market needs, develop revenue generating new products (SaaS, Cloud), accelerate growth, and transform organizations into profitable entities. My broad-based experience includes building go-to-market strategies and lean operations to achieve unprecedented levels of scale, reliability and performance for start-ups and Fortune 500 firms including BMC, Oracle and Amazon. My experience spans scaling eCommerce Operations at Amazon.com, catalyzing growth at The Carlyle Group, building Enterprise grade SaaS/Cloud offerings at BMC, Dorado, SumTotal & Oracle On Demand.