Muruga Balakrishnan is a Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at Cockroach Labs, where he works with ISV, GSI, and reseller partners across the Asia-Pacific region, helping them build and scale mission-critical, always-on applications – from core banking platforms to fintech infrastructure – on CockroachDB. His background spans complex technical initiatives across core banking systems, database migration, and distributed data architecture, giving him a ground-level perspective on what it takes to align resilient database technology with real business outcomes.