Harishankar Balakrishnan

Technical Manager

• Job Details:Managed team of 40 professionals for Samsung Semiconductor India research, aligning project deliverables with business objectives and market trends. Facilitated daily collaboration with engineering teams to manage dependencies, risks, and technical concerns, ensuring efficient development. Maintained close coordination with project managers/product managers for receiving and reviewing team changes and additions. Drove cross-functional collaboration across R&D, engineering, sales, finance, and marketing teams globally. Oversaw end-to-end team development including recruitment, coaching, and mentoring while implementing best practices. Spearheaded the development of automotive cybersecurity capabilities within the organization. Created cybersecurity lab based on Metasploitable and performed penetration testing.

Senior Technical Lead

• Job Details:Led multiple project teams in automotive cybersecurity, ADAS data visualization, and infotainment systems. Implemented automotive cybersecurity system engineering (ASPICE) and TARA process (ISO 21434). Worked with engineering team and stakeholders for requirement analysis, to understand dependencies, risks, defects and guided them to solutions. Managed projects for major clients including Audi, GWM, BMW and Fiat using agile/scrum methodologies. Established data-driven project tracking using JIRA dashboards for real-time metrics.

Senior Engineer

• Job Details:Deployed at Aptiv, worked in multiple projects at Aptiv.