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Author: Balaji Gopalan
Balaji is a Principal Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services, where he guides financial services customers to build highly secure, operationally efficient, reliable, performant, and cost-efficient applications on the cloud. He has also been advising customers on how they can harness data on the cloud to move up the information value chain. As an active member of the industry wide EDM Council’s Cloud Management Capabilities working group, he is helping define best practices for cloud data management. Balaji brings over 20 years of Capital Markets experience, working at both the buy side (at a Quant Hedge fund) and the sell side (Tier-One Investment Bank), where he focused on electronic trading, algorithmic trading, and time series analytics across Equities and Fixed Income divisions. Balaji holds a Masters in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science from Madras University.
How Behalf Met its Streaming Data Scaling Demands with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
To be a successful fintech startup, companies have to build solutions fast so the business can achieve its goals. However, you can’t compromise on security, reliability, or support. As an AWS Financial Services Competency Partner, Behalf is committed to delivering reliable, secure, low-cost payment processing and credit options to business customers. Learn how Behalf chose Amazon MSK to meet its increasing streaming data needs in a reliable and cost-efficient manner.