Balasubrahmanya Balakrishna is a highly accomplished Senior Lead Software Engineer based in Richmond, Virginia, with over 17 years of extensive experience in IT infrastructure and cloud technologies. Currently serving at Capital One Services, LLC, he specializes in designing and leading the modernization of legacy systems, particularly migrating enterprise applications to AWS cloud environments. He possesses deep expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS), including VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, and other core services, and has led the development of scalable, serverless, and high-availability solutions. His professional journey includes impactful roles at major organizations such as Royal Bank of Scotland, Temenos, Wipro Technologies, and Data Software Research Company. In these roles, he managed full software development lifecycles, implemented agile methodologies, and provided solutions using technologies such as Java, Python, COBOL, and DevOps tools like Jenkins and Docker. Balakrishna holds a Master?s degree in Software Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect. He is also affiliated with prestigious professional bodies such as the Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET), BCS ? The Chartered Institute for IT, and ACM. His dedication to innovation and excellence in cloud computing and enterprise software design marks him as a distinguished leader in the technology domain.