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Bala Shanmugam

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Founder at Cubewire
📍 Greater Melbourne Area, Australia

Bala Shanmugam is a technology founder with over 25 years of experience in financial services and enterprise IT. He is the CEO of p8. io and Founder of Cubewire, focusing on digital payments and Web3 infrastructure. His background includes leadership roles at Atlassian and ANZ, and he holds a Bachelor of Technology from Madras Institute of Technology Campus.

He previously led a technology transformation at ANZ, modernizing payment platforms that reliably move $160 billion daily.

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Experience
23 Years
Current Role
Founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Greater Melbourne Area, Australia
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Digital Asset Infrastructure
As the Founder of Cubewire, he is building a next-generation platform to provide secure, scalable Web3 capabilities for enterprises, financial institutions, and governments.
Next-Gen Payments
His work at p8. io and extensive prior experience at ANZ focuses on building cloud-native, AI-driven payment platforms to modernize financial services.
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Career

Work history

6-2024
Founder
Cubewire
9-2023
Chief Executive Officer
p8.io
11-2022 - 8-2023
Head of Engineering - Developer Platform
Atlassian
3-2021 - 10-2022
Head of Technology - Payments Platforms
ANZ
8-2016 - 2-2021
Senior Technology Manager
ANZ
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Education
1997 - 2001
Bachelor of Technology - BTech
Madras Institute of Technology Campus
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