Balaji Desikan is an IT Project Manager at Delhaize Group since May 2015, overseeing significant projects such as a gift card upgrade for Food Lion and Hannaford. Prior experience includes serving as a Senior Manager at Cognizant Technology Solutions from June 2010 to May 2015, where Balaji led multiple high-stakes projects within a multi-million dollar Service Platform initiative. Previous roles at Infosys from April 1999 to 2010 included Program Manager for the Sears Business Intelligence team and Project Manager for several multimillion-dollar projects related to payment systems and application modernization. Balaji began a career in technology as a Requirements Analyst at Microsoft and started as a programmer focused on developing solutions using VB 5.0 and SQL Server. Balaji holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bharathiar University, obtained between 1990 and 1994.