• Conceptualized and led the design & delivery of an Identity fraud verification service (C#), which simplified client account onboarding, improved customer experience, reduced risk and saved 2mn annually in fraudulent transactions. Service is used by 4mn Wealth Mgmt. customers through self-service channels and has a 99% uptime with 50ms SLA• Led IT modernization strategy, architecture and delivery of the next gen gateway(Apigee, Layer 7, Java, Python) for external partner integration and SaaS adoption; Reduced lead time for partner onboarding from 4wks to 1d• Driven performance optimization of the Robo advisor platform, reducing response time SLA for 2 billion market simulations from 2mins to 2secs, enabling new market opportunities by allowing open access to this service• Leading the cloud engineering team, to define a multi-year, cross-platform strategy and deployment topology for migrating customer- facing & front-office applications onto public cloud infrastructure. Conceptualized and delivered frameworks for application metrics driven auto-scaling & cloud-bursting (Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus), Cloud reach-back, Data synchronization (Kafka, CosmosDb, Azure functions, EventHub) & Identity bridging patterns to support phased migration and hybrid cloud topologies• Support franchise building efforts reporting to India org head (MD) and COO; managing a diverse team providing architecture consulting, workforce capability improvement and optimizing recruitment processes

• Incubated the cash mgmt. function and led the platform development of authorization & inter-bank settlement for financial transactions worth 3mn USD/day (C#, Sql Server, Rest apis). 50mn transactions processed daily, with average latency of 500ms per transaction for federal sanction checks, regulatory compliance, real-time account balance verification. Improved standardization via migrating to X9 electronic checks, NACHA Wires, ISO-8583 card transaction formats and same day settlements. Enhanced for real-time payments authorization with fraud alerting (IBM MQ, WCF) of debit card transactions, originating from FirstData STAR network• Led development of a solution for Credit card/Debit Card/Checkbook order management (AngularJS, Javascript, Dotnet, Rest Apis). Initially used by banking back-office operations teams, on behalf of HNI customers. Reduced operations overhead and improved process efficiency by exposing self-service api options, via online & mobile channels

• Led a 15 member product team to design and deliver an in-house Api gateway framework (Dotnet, AppFabric, Couchbase) with support for Identity & access control, OAuth, Rate limiting, Traffic monitoring & analytics, scaling to 1200 tps/node with 50ms latency at 99th percentile. This framework underpins core domain apis like Stock, Pricing, Products etc. used by Tesco.com ecommerce platform and mobile app, that supports 35mn users every month and scales to 3k-5k tps for each service

• Recruited a hand-picked SME team of senior engineers, solution architects, performance engineers and mobile application experts across multiple tech stacks to setup a Technology CoE, reporting to Tesco India CEO and Centre head. The group provided solution consulting, advisory and performance engineering services to delivery teams and reduced “Mean Time to Resolution” for prod incidents by 4hrs• Led an Integration services team of 10 developers to create an ESB platform supporting exchange of business data/events between core business systems like Merchandising, Sales, Ordering, Distribution, Store Range & Display, Inventory, Supply Chain & Financials (Biztalk, SSIS, XCom, Ftp)

• Led a team of 6 test automation engineers to provide quality assurance services for Microsoft Product Support Content publishing platform and the Microsoft Premier support portal (Coded UI tests, Webdriver tests)• Managed onsite delivery and developed a telecom invoice matching rules engine to find errors , over-charging, cost optimization options (Biztalk,C#)• Created an UI to provide real-time visibility & control of assembly lines for semiconductor chip fabrication, by integrating with PLC controllers (VB6.0)• Support data capture of patient health records & adverse events during clinical trials of “Clozaril” antipsychotic drug (ASP.Net, Html, VB.Net)• Created a mobile app for pharma sales-force reps to capture offline data during field visits to doctors, with EoD sync to Head office (SqlServer CE)