2024

Modern Data Platform for Real Estate

Entrant Company

Anandaganesh Balakrishnan

Category

Information Technology - Technical Professional of the Year

Client's Name

Roc360

Country / Region

United States

Roc360, headquartered in New York City, is a leading digital financial services platform and lender focused on residential real estate. It facilitates a wide range of real estate loans for professional investors. The company was founded in 2014 and has since established a significant presence in the industry. The company has the subsidiaries Roc Capital (Capital Provider), Finance of America Commercial (Direct Lender), CIVIC Financial Services (Direct Lender), Elmsure (Property Insurance), Wimba Title (Title Insurance), Anqa Rewards (Rewards Program and Affinity Partnerships), Tamarisk Appraisals (Appraisal Management Company), and Really (Investor Focused Property Marketplace. It has over 300 employees and has funded over a billion in loans. Roc360 operates globally, with offices across three continents, reflecting its expansive reach and influence in real estate financing. Roc360 ranked as one of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech companies in North America by Deloitte in 2022 and 2023.

Anandaganesh Balakrishnan was hired at Roc360 as Vice President of Data Engineering in the data science department. As the founding data engineer, he was responsible for setting up the data analytics platforms and frameworks in Snowflake, which were designed to meet the business requirements of data scientists, machine learning engineers, and data analysts. Anandaganesh Balakrishnan is a data engineering and analytics leader with senior leadership roles across the fintech, biotech, and utility domains. His expertise is architecting scalable, reliable, and performant Data Platforms for Advanced Data Analytics, Quantitative Research, and Machine Learning. Anandaganesh Balakrishnan has designed low-latency data architecture frameworks tailored for energy trading. He has developed and executed data models and interfaces for the ING Global Finance Transformation Program. Anandaganesh Balakrishnan is among the few global experts accepted into the SnowPro Subject Matter Expert Team.

 
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Entrant Company

Ayala Land, Inc.

Category

Marketing - Events

Country / Region

Philippines

 
2024
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Entrant Company

Ayala Land, Inc.

Category

Event - Interactive Outdoor Event

Country / Region

Philippines

 
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Entrant Company

Farm to Plate Inc.

Category

Sustainability - Sustainability Product of the Year

Country / Region

United States

 
2024
Leading the Charge in Software Engineering Innovation

Entrant Company

Vishal Patel

Category

Information Technology - Technical Professional of the Year

Country / Region

United States