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