I have been closely working with Mahatma Gandhi School (MGS), Pune. The school, founded by social activist Shri Vinayak Deokar, provides complete free English medium education to 425 underprivileged kids belonging to neglected sections of the society. School video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wev5nLIwRjgEvery child needs an ecosystem where his/her potential is fully leveraged and learning becomes a joy. This is even more important for us given the fact that our students come from very challenging background. With that aim in mind, Aikya has launched a multi-year project called "Arohana", to establish a holistic and experiential learning ecosystem in the school to optimise the learning with fun. In phase 1 of project, we are building Jr. science and maths lab, classroom walls, library and focusing on strengthening the core academic skills of students.In this social journey, we are seeking guidance and support from Dr. Chetana Keni, Founder of Aurinko Academy, the top rated experiential and progressive learning school in Bangalore

Open Banking in Australia is a regulatory requirement that mandates bank to securely share customer and account data with accredited third parties and fintech companies. The intent is to create competition in financial services marketplace. As a product owner for strategic integration platform, I am accountable for delivery of Open Banking data share APIs, managing industry and stakeholder expectations Business Drivers: regulatory, revenue opportunities, customer experience, straight-through processing Responsibilities: * Contribute to Program Increment planning, goal setting and feature prioritisation * Participate in customer/feature journey maps, create & prioritise epics, define acceptance criteria, prepare feature-wise scrum boards for tracking purpose* Drive sprint planning, backlog refinement/grooming, create stories, manage internal & external dependencies with other squads* Manage Open Banking initiative stakeholders, manage buy-in and negotiation on scope* Support certification & Industry testing from third party providers/fintech companies. Drive triage calls for effective resolution* Driving security assessment, compliance and operational risk management discussion to ensure epics/stories are delivered with no/minimal vulnerabilities. Capture treatment/remediation plans in product backlog and risk register Technologies/Platforms: JIRA, Confluence, nodeJS- microservices, Kong, Kafka, GCP, GKE, CI/CD: Cloud Build-Spinnaker, Twistlock, IBM API Connect

Markets and Retail Banking are the key domains in the Bank. As a product owner and lead for integration, I was involved in delivery of multiple digital initiatives like trade data distribution program, multi-channel platform initiative (assisted and unassisted channels)Business Drivers: time-to-market, digital banking Technology Drivers: automation, platform governanceResponsibilities (multiple projects): * Driving and managing trade data distribution initiative in agile model within Markets domain, reducing time-to-market from months to days - Discuss trade data initiative with Business SMEs and Domain Owners - Manage conflicting expectations of key stakeholders – Business stakeholders and Operations- support team and drive trade-off to deliver long pending critical Business case - Collaborate with upstream and downstream application owners to finalize specific data distribution and subscription requirements - Define Epics, stories and acceptance criteria - Sprint planning, backlog refinement, prioritisation - Support UAT and Business Acceptance * Deliver Enterprise API platform - Define roadmap for platform operationalisation - Define Platform backlog - epics, stories for operational, framework & DevOps requirements, collaborating with support and developer communities - Operationalise shared platform for use by multiple applications/domains* Drive the implementation of reusable APIs across channels - Capture channel requirements for key data-entities – account details, customer profile etc - Manage squad to deliver streamlined version of account (loan, deposit, cards) and customer APIs (with customer MDM as golden source of data) for reuse across channelsTechnologies/Platforms: JIRA, Confluence, API Connect, Kafka, MQ, OpenShift, uDeploy, Bamboo, DataPower, zOS Connect

Client is one of the leading telecom operators in UK and wanted to deliver consistent experience/services to customer across channels. As a lead architect for shared service strategy, I was accountable for defining and delivering reusable capabilities across consumer channels Business Drivers: Customer Delight and consistency in servicesResponsibilities:* Defining specification for reusable capabilities across channel applications* Led the initiative on performance tuning of Enterprise SOA Platform* Mentoring team on Business Processes and underlying services

Derivatives trading is one of the key line of businesses in Bank. As a process improvement and solution lead for derivatives, I was accountable for streamlining derivatives business processes to ensure data quality issues are addressedBusiness Drivers: Business Process improvement and data quality/governanceResponsibilities:* Modeling as-is and to-be Business Processes for Derivatives LOB (Swap, Forwards etc.) * Consulting to strategic programs on reusing Data Services built on the top of golden sources and master data hubs (customer hub)* Review of solutions delivered by vendor

As a lead for SOA-BPM Practice* Managed team of 25+ highly skilled consultants to support various BFSI client engagements on architecture, design and consulting * Instrumental in building SOA-BPM-Integration practice line and responding to various RFI/RFP winning multi-million dollar deals * Delivered several SOA Capsule programs for BFSI customers in US/London and established Oracle Financial Services as a strong brand in SOA space* Presales and Business Development Support for US, UK and APAC region. Preparing presales presentations, covering – service offerings, USP, case studies, cheat sheet* Capability building and training

Client is one of the leading mobile operators in US. WebMethods (SoftWare AG) is the shared integration infrastructure connecting global supply chain of Organisation, spread across Europe, US, APAC and Brazil. This was the 2nd largest and complex integration in supply chain space. As a tech lead, I was accountable for migration of platform adapters to newer versionBusiness Drivers: huge cost saving on licenses by decommissioning old infrastructureResponsibilities: * Defining and executing region-wise migration strategy for webMethods integration platform managing various Business and Application stakeholders * Led a team of engineers to successfully migrate - Europe, US, APAC and Brazil integration platform to a higher version* Conceptualised and implemented utility to monitor complete B2B integration infrastructure spanning across geographical territories, thus enhancing up-time

* Consulting to British Telecom's Design Standardization UML initiative in UK (London)

* Integration Designer and Developer for MetLife in USA* Tech Lead for J2EE projects in USA and India

* Mainframe developer