Akshay Kunkulol Email & Phone Number

Pune, Mh, In

Pune, Mh, In

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Building next-gen AI-based WealthTech - Shankh.tech Artificial Intelligence Product Management

Pune, Maharashtra, India

- Part of Deutsche India Group Technology Leadership- Part of Corporate Bank India Management- Digital, Operating Model & Culture Transformation - Data, Architecture, Google Cloud- CIO-1 for Corporate Bank Trust & Agency Services- Global Lead for Trust & Agency Cloud

Greater Chicago Area

- Lead the teams to transform technology for Big Data Risk Management platform using Java, Spring Boot, Flink, Kafka, Redis, AWS.- Contribute to Risk platform's & Enterprise Architecture with key features like event-driven, highly configurable, modular, horizontally scalable, high data throughput, secure and optimized cloud TCO.- Devise & streamline strategy for hiring 100 resources within 3 quarters which was recognized by the industry.- Prepare tech review material for CxO and BOD; Recognized by CIO for creative & unbiased approaches to delivery.- Part of IT Transformation Panel representing Chicago leadership for driving cultural and process changes in OCC- Stakeholder in Good Software Delivery team driving technology, tools and process standardization and good delivery practices.

Chicago, Il

Interest Rates Derivatives Technology- Manage the global team with responsibility to design and deliver state of the art platform from scratch that supports voice and electronic trade booking and end-to-end lifecycle workflows, with major emphasis on post-trade booking operational excellence. - Co-ordinate various sources of trading data for front-office and middle-office users in Dashboard system that performed full real-time reconciliations- Devise integrated project plan, prioritize & track deliverables, delegate, manage timeline, provide training documentation, and present to key stakeholders including C-level executives.- Work closely and build relations with business, quants, and other technology partners.- Setup and manage offshore development, QA, support teams; Foster global collaboration; Vendor Management- Steer system architecture solutions for multi-threaded distributed platform with considerations to performance, security, scalability and business continuity, UI/UX.- Drive agile delivery practices like Scrumban, TDD, CI/CD, Regression automation.

Chicago, Il

Credit, Muni & Mortgage Derivatives Technology- Worked on GMRT’s strategic project that brings Trade Capture, Risk, and Settlement of all Business Lines on a single platform. The project required significant co-ordination, influencing without authority and negotiation. Removing gaps for counterparty credit risk was useful for answering Black Swan event loss, collateral optimization.- Led team to successfully deliver technology needs for ‘Structured Notes’ trading desk which were enforced by Fed. This initiative required profound knowledge of Derivatives and Debt Products, Trade Lifecycle, Trading System, and Technology in addition to co-ordination across multiple teams and line of business.E.g. Based on discussion with the desk and analysis of the term sheet, I realized need for Capturing Trade Details for ‘Fixed-to-Float Single Name Credit Default Swap’ product which was not supported by the application and crafted solution to fit it within existing ticket ‘Floating Single Name Credit Default Swap’.- Led technology team on various regulatory projects like Dodd-Frank, ISDA, and Volcker compliance. Represented bank on external industry-wide collaboration calls.E.g. For ISDA 2014 regulation for Credit Default Swaps, I designed technology solutions related to changes in Restructuring Scenarios, DTCC Transaction Type and Credit Curves for pricing trades.- Hire, train and groom offshore team to significantly save cost on legacy softwares.

Chicago, Il

Credit, Muni & Mortgage Derivatives Technology- Served as Primary Subject Matter Expert on derivatives trading platform ‘Advantage’ which encompasses 10+ Business Lines, 50+ Financial Instruments, 400+ Users, ~$21 trillion Notional over 500,000 trades.E.g. Developed solution to automate application of Factors and Fees on trades for Mortgage Derivatives business.

Chicago, Il

[Employer: Open Systems Tech]- Delivered various projects to combine technological infrastructure that were initiated by Bank of America and Merrill Lynch merger, saving over $5M for the bank. These projects required understanding of complex system architectures, financial products and data to come up with sleek, innovative solutions.

Chicago, Il

[Employer: IBM]- Developed and Architected multiple solutions related to Margin computation & Collateral lifecycle by translating complex business problems into technology solutions that are feasible based on current systems architecture.- Delivered redesign project successfully to reflect trade in credit line of FX client from 300 sec down to 5 sec. This was used to approve/reject trade based on trading & collateral transactions.- Designed & Developed complex data-archiving project that was required for answering client queries in case of margin dispute.- Helped with pre-sales activities to grow IBM consulting's account at UBS Investment Bank.- Led onshore (Chicago, USA) / offshore (India) team of size 6.

Osaka, Japan

[Employer: IBM]- Appointed as Innovation Engineer to work with client to understand existing system and migrate to strategic technology using bottom-up reverse engineering technique.- Led onshore (Japan) /offshore (India) team of size 12

Pune, India

[Employer: IBM]- Delivered complex high quality solutions for 'Case Management' web application used by Amex's card customers to enter dispute details for any unrecognized activity on the card and by vendor to enter evidences.- Designed and Developed innovative tools to bring down support cost for the client.

Pune Area, India

- Single-handedly developed full web application using PHP, MySQL

Pune Area, India

Pune Area, India

Final Year Project - AceCache (Application Controlled External Cache) - Multiple national awards.Develop Windows driver in C to cache business critical application's data in system cache.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, General, Honors

Activities and Societies: - Inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma- Graduated with Honors - Appeared on Dean's honor list 4 times. - Steve Jobs.

Engineer'S Degree, Information Technology

Activities and Societies: IEEE, Impetus and Concepts, Pune Police Helpline- Graduated with Distinction - Eleven National Awards.