American Water, Principal Software Engineer

Anandaganesh Balakrishnan has 15+ years of experience in data engineering, data virtualization, database development, infrastructure development, and data analytics. He held leadership roles spanning diverse industries across Banking, Trading, Biotech, Real Estate, and Utilities. He currently leads the development and optimization of data virtualization infrastructure and data engineering strategies. He supports application developers, data products team, database developers, data scientists, and other key stakeholders on data initiatives. He ensures optimal data delivery architecture by benchmarking different tools' capabilities and performance. His current focus is AI on unstructured data, large language models, Generative AI, self-service data analytics, and data catalogs.