Prashant Desai Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

• As the driving force behind the realization of the Advanced Data Science Workbench vision—an integrated system tailored for big data processing and training Machine Learning models (MLOps) designed to serve as a.
• Leading global team of 120 technologist and establishing development centers of excellence.
• Steering technology direction by spearheading platform development and enhancing common capabilities.
• Spearheading implementations of Sematic Search and GenAI/LLM solutions.
• Developing data science platform based on Databricks, Spark, Snowflake, AWS and open-source technologies
• Developing real-time analytics platform with high performance compute, commercial and open-source BI toolchain.

London, United Kingdom, GB

• Leading high performance global technology teams of developers and architects at a fintech organization. Oversee product portfolio of 6 web based (SaaS), highly scalable, available and secure applications generating.
• Championed cloud adoption.
• Responsible for operational aspects of Application lifecycle. Improved stability and reliability of applications with uptime at 99.99%
• Product managed new generation architecture and technology platform to be utilized across organization
• Hired and established strong technology organization at geographically distributed Centers of Excellence (COE). Coached and mentored developers on best practices. Aligned team towards vision. Improved engagement and.
• Managed annual technology budgets of $15mm.

New York, NY, US

• Leading high performance global technology teams of developers and architects at a fintech organization. Oversee product portfolio of 6 web based (SaaS), highly scalable, available and secure applications generating.
• Championed cloud adoption.
• Responsible for operational aspects of Application lifecycle. Improved stability and reliability of applications with uptime at 99.99%
• Product managed new generation architecture and technology platform to be utilized across organization
• Hired and established strong technology organization at geographically distributed Centers of Excellence (COE). Coached and mentored developers on best practices. Aligned team towards vision. Improved engagement and.
• Managed annual technology budgets of $15mm.

New York, NY, US

Managed team of 15 onsite and offshore developers. Aligned them to deliver on goals of Equity New Issuance trading application. Managed day-to-day activities of development team, including project planning, stakeholder and client management, requirement analysis, functional specification, technical specification, design, architecture, quality assessment.

Designed and developed and COM-based solution for label placement on maps created in Geomedia, ArcGIS, and Adobe Illustrator. Made extensive use of windows API. Formulated and designed automated aeronautical charting system for Lufthansa based on Label-EZ label placement engine and Adobe Illustrator SDK

Newark, New Jersey, US

Designed and developed COM/COM+ -based Intranet site for Literature procurement system. Used object modeling techniques during design phase. Was involved in the entire process of design, development and deployment of the website. Participated and provided influential inputs in the software architecture and design meetings.

As a member of the technical design committee, played a critical role in designing and developing a multithreaded quality testing application for the telecom industry.

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, IN

Oversaw a $1 million project and a team of 10 programmers. Was responsible for collaborating and negotiating with client during deployment of residential property management system. Was involved in managing client's early adopter program. Was instrumental in improving the quality of product and reduced rework percentages from 35% to 10%.