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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

➢ Strategic Leadership and Vision: Driving the digital transformation of Asset Wealth Management by formulating and executing a comprehensive strategy that enhances the Advisor Experience within Wealth Investment Solutions for SMA and Alts, aligning with overall business objectives.➢ Engineering and Technology Management: Leading a 105-member engineering team to develop and deploy cutting-edge digital and sales technology solutions, enhancing user experience and analytics through cloud-based initiatives on AWS.➢ Sales Technology and Data Integration: Directing the creation of data pipelines for machine learning and analytics, leveraging cloud technologies to optimize lead generation and improve sales performance through AI-driven insights.➢ Product Development and Management: Overseeing the end-to-end execution of multiple product charters, from inception to completion, ensuring alignment with business goals and timely delivery of high-quality digital products.➢Talent Acquisition and Development: Leading campus hiring initiatives to recruit top talent, while mentoring and developing engineers and leaders to foster a culture of excellence and innovation within the organization."➢ Cloud Infrastructure and Digital Transformation: Championing the migration to AWS cloud infrastructure, implementing cloud-first strategies that enhance operational efficiency, scalability, and security, delivering superior client experiences.➢ Stakeholder Management and Collaboration: Collaborating with senior management and cross-functional teams to align digital and technology strategies with business objectives, driving innovation and maintaining competitive advantage.➢ Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Promoting continuous improvement by staying ahead of industry trends in digital, cloud, and AI/ML technologies, proactively identifying opportunities to meet evolving client and market needs.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

➢ Search and Analytics Technology Development: Spearheaded the development of next-generation search and analytics solutions, focusing on large-scale distributed systems, real-time analytics, machine learning, and open-source technologies such as Lucene and Elasticsearch.➢ Team Building and Expansion: Successfully bootstrapped and scaled a high-performing engineering team from 3 engineers to over 45+ engineers across multiple locations, driving the growth of one of AWS's top 5 services.➢ Architecture and System Design: Led the independent charter for building a ground zero monitoring fleet using cell-based architecture, enabling a 10x scale-up in service capacity and performance.➢ Persistent Data Stores and Monitoring Systems: Drove greenfield initiatives to build a persistent data store for time series metric storage, and develop canaries fleet for simulating customer experiences and proactively monitoring customer clusters.➢ Feature Development and Large-scale Projects: Oversaw the scoping, design, and development of cross-cluster, cross-region replication features for high-value clients, including major banks and enterprises, with a dedicated team of 15 senior engineers.➢ Open Source Contributions and Managed Service Enhancements: Contributed to the open-source community through Open Distro and the forked version of the managed service, ensuring continuous innovation and improvement of the service offerings.➢ Global Service Expansion: Led the successful launch of the service in 23 new global regions over five years, significantly expanding the global footprint and accessibility of AWS Elasticsearch Service.➢ Operational Excellence and On-call Model Reengineering: Re-architected the on-call support model to improve customer experience by addressing day-to-day customer and monitoring issues more effectively and efficiently.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

➢ Benchmark Analytics System Management: Oversaw the development and management of a benchmark analytics system, sponsored by the Risk and Performance group, to provide a central source of benchmark data for performance measurement, risk analysis, and asset allocation decisions across the division.➢ Organizational Growth and Team Building: Played a key role in the expansion of GSAM Tech from a team of 2 to an organization of 300+ employees, covering technology, operations, and business functions.➢ Development of a Global Search Platform: Led the development of a greenfield search platform for indexing and searching structured and unstructured documents, evolving from a proof of concept (POC) to a widely used tool across Goldman Sachs globally.➢ Talent Acquisition and Mentorship: Hired, mentored, and developed a team of 52 engineers and leaders, fostering a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and excellence within the technology team.➢ Investment Guidelines and Compliance technology: Managed compliance technology team engaged in application development using Java / J2EE with investment, asset management and regulatory guidelines being key area of focus.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Designed and developed major features on WhiteLabel FX platform for Citibank. Key deliverables were around inverse rate requests, counterparty chooser and transaction object migration in an RFQ/defined trade flow.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Designed and developed major features on trade management product on Oracle eBusiness suite. Key deliverables were on budget and fund accrual products.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India;

Designed, developed and consulted on Novell Identity management solutions for different clients in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

Bachelor'S Degree

Master'S Degree

Afrm, Financial Risk Management

Cfa, Finance