Balakumaran Sugumar

Balakumaran Sugumar

Senior API & Cloud Architect

Professional Overview

I am a senior API and cloud architect with over 16 years of experience designing, building, and scaling secure distributed systems in financial services and enterprise platforms.

My work focuses on cloud-native architectures, secure API platforms, tokenization, event-driven systems, and applied artificial intelligence for fraud detection and transaction intelligence.

I have led large-scale modernization initiatives involving microservices, data streaming, and cloud migrations, with a strong emphasis on security, compliance, and system reliability.

Academic & Research Interests

Explainable AI for financial systems, real-time fraud detection, secure data processing, and intelligent decision-making in distributed environments.

Professional Recognition

  • IEEE Senior Member
  • Conference reviewer and session judge
  • Invited speaker at academic and industry forums