Balasubrahmanya Balakrishna is a seasoned AWS Cloud Architect and Senior Lead Software Engineer based in Richmond, VA, with over 17 years of experience in IT infrastructure, cloud technologies, and solution design. He has led large-scale modernization and cloud migration projects, notably at Capital One, where he architected and implemented enterprise-grade solutions using AWS services, serverless computing, and microservices. Balakrishna holds a Master?s in Software Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and is certified as an AWS Solutions Architect ? Associate. He is a member of professional bodies including IET, BCS, and ACM, and brings deep technical expertise in AWS, Java, Python, DevOps tools, and cloud security.