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New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

Stockholm, Stockholm County, SE

• Lead the Global Intelligent Automation RPA Program at Spotify. Responsible for the overarching vision and actionable strategy. Leading a team of a dozen full-time employees and contractors from PwC, Infosys, and.
• Spearhead the Intelligent Automation program's vision, operating model, resource planning, and delivery roadmap within the Financial Engineering department.
• Expand the solution portfolio by onboarding new technologies, including Generative AI, ABBYY, UiPath Document Understanding, and Snaplogic (an iPaaS solution).
• Lead the team in developing automation bots for the Accounting, Tax, and Treasury departments. In 2024, we automated the global Invoice to Pay process using Generative AI and UiPath, resulting in the saving of 5 FTEs.
• Manage relationships with internal stakeholders and manage their expectations. Build and prioritize automation opportunity backlogs.
• Oversee relationships with external consulting partners, negotiating contracts with PwC, Infosys, and TeamTech.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, SE

• Lead the Intelligent Automation team to build automation bots for Spotify. Ramp up the RPA program at Spotify.
• Established the Intelligent Automation team by hiring and onboarding over a dozen full-time employees and contractors across the US, Sweden, and India. Mentored and coached team members to drive growth and performance.
• Led two teams at Spotify: the development team and the infrastructure team. Directed the development team to create automations for stakeholders across the organization. Guided the infrastructure team in migrating the.
• Spearheaded the development and delivery of more than 40 automation bots for the Accounting, Tax, and Treasury departments, resulting in annual savings of 40,000 hours.
• Initiated and led a citizen development boot camp, empowering Spotify employees to build their own automation bots. Trained over 100 citizen developers.
• Actively engaged in hands-on automation development using UiPath.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Technical manager, architect, and lead engineer responsible for developing Robotic Processing Automation solutions.
• Developed intelligent automation solutions using Automation Anywhere. Built multiple bots and saved 50,000+ hours for KPMG internal clients.
• Developed a signature bot GoldenEye, an intelligent proposal review and enhancement bot. This bot was featured on the KPMG front page headline in October 2019 and ranked one of the top 10 successful IT projects.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Technical manager and lead engineer responsible for developing enterprise risk applications.
• Technical lead to design and develop Accelerated Risk Management (ARM) system, an enterprise risk management system for KPMG. This web application was developed using C#, ASP.NET, APIs, and SQL.
• Developed a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins to enable developers to build, test, and deploy their software with ease.
• Developed mCEAC application using Objective-C on iOS, the very first mobile application developed by KPMG US. Our work laid down the infrastructure and communication layer for future mobile applications.

Wayne, New Jersey, US

• Technical lead and key developer for developing enterprise solutions, leading projects, providing production support, and training Help Desk and support team. Proven track record of leading and maintaining large-scale.
• Led onsite and offshore teams to develop and support an internal Single Sign-On (SSO) enterprise solution (2006 – 2013). It was one of the most heavily used software in Toys R Us with 70,000 users from 900 stores.
• Led the development of credit card encryption software and Secure FTP libraries to enhance security for IT applications. The success of this project helped Toys R Us to successfully pass the PCI audit in 2007-2009.

Wayne, New Jersey, US

Key developer for the TCP/IP communications between 900+ stores and the data center. Kept the communication up 24/7 through the load-balance and failover solutions. Keeping the communication between stores and the data center was critical to keep the stores open and the keep the customers happy.

New York, New York, US

Designed and implemented a swap derivative trading system using object-oriented methodologies. The system is written in C++ and Sybase database. Supported swap trading desk in New York, London, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

M.S., Computer Science

B.S., Computer Science