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Chandrasekar Balakrishnan

Engineering leader, data person at heart.

20+ years across engineering leadership and data. At Flix I lead four Agile squads shaping the customer experience for FlixBus and FlixTrain — product and technology roadmaps, cross-functional work, shipping things that matter.

Before that, at IBM, I helped scale teams and systems through large transformations in Sales & Marketing and Customer Service, and spent over a decade in data science at IBM Watson Health.

I like building data ecosystems that turn into decisions, and teams that grow while doing it.

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What I'm into

  • Data
  • AI
  • Crypto
  • Engineering systems
  • Leadership

Experience

  1. Nov 2022 – present

    Engineering Manager · Flix

    Leads four Agile squads shaping the customer experience for FlixBus and FlixTrain — product and technology roadmaps, cross-functional delivery.

  2. Jun 2020 – Nov 2022

    Eng. Manager, Analytics & Insights · IBM CIO

    Scaled teams and systems through large transformations in Sales & Marketing and Customer Service.

  3. Jun 2010 – Nov 2022

    Data Scientist → DS Manager · IBM Watson Health

    Research studies in SAS, Python and R; statistical modelling; Cognos, Power BI and Tableau dashboards; virtual assistants on Watson Assistant & Discovery.

  4. Jun 2006 – Jun 2010

    Developer / BA · Cognizant

    SAS ETL for an enterprise data warehouse. Designed metadata-driven data-quality metrics from scratch.

Skills

  • Prompt Engineering
  • Agile Development
  • Data analytics
  • SAS
  • Python
  • R
  • Cognos Analytics
  • Power BI
  • Tableau
  • Watson Assistant / Discovery

Certifications

  • IBM Agile Explorer
  • Big Data Foundations L1, L2
  • Data Science Foundations L1, L2

Education

  • MBA, Marketing & IT
    SRM University · 2003 – 2005
  • B.Sc. Statistics
    Madras Christian College · 2000 – 2003

Languages

  • Hindi
  • Tamil
  • German (Basic)