Leading consulting assignments in Cloud Computing and AI/ML space with specific focus on using LLM and Generative AI.

𝐀 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬.◆ Led engineering teams across multiple product pillars and shared platforms, including Fraud, Notifications, Interac eTransfer and Interac Direct.◆ Drove the modernization of the eTransfer platform, migrating from a monolithic to a domain-driven microservices architecture.◆ Built the new payment rail for account-based payments supporting eCommerce use cases, including Business Registration and Pay By ID.◆ Led internal and external audits for ISO 27001 certification.◆ Fostered a customer-centric mindset and a culture of continuous improvement and learning within the engineering organization.

𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬:◆ Led the industry program integrating eTransfer to RTR (Canada's new national real-time payment rail) in aggressive timelines with zero major defects in industry testing.◆ Successfully decoupled the Notifications and Fraud domain from the monolithic eTransfer platform, migrating them to a micro-services architecture for improved scalability, maintainability, and independent deployments.◆ Built strong partnerships with cross-functional teams (product, customer success, security, governance, operations, platform) to drive alignment and achieve shared goals.◆ Established Frontend Engineering Practice from the ground up, adopting Monorepo, Nx, and moving towards Micro Frontends.◆ Stabilized the eTransfer platform, reducing application related post-production incidents significantly, achieving 99.9% availability, and implemented improved training and living documentation procedures for Operations to ensure effective L1 and L2 support.

𝐃𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐑𝐁𝐂, 𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬.◆ Full accountability for architecting, designing, building, and delivering end-to-end solutions, encompassing product prioritization, feature planning, backlog health, omni-channel alignment, and successful product launches.◆ Acted as a trusted partner and collaborated with cross-functional teams across various domains (Retail/Commercial Banking, Fraud, Cybersecurity, Data Governance, AML) to manage dependencies, integrations, and ensure integrity, security and compliance for products and services.𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬:◆ Led online banking efforts to modernize payment infrastructure and offerings aligning with Payments Canada's Real-Time Rails (RTR) initiative.◆ Added new offerings like Dynamic Transaction Limit Management, Multi-Factor Authentication, International Money Transfer, Post Dated Payments and modernized adopting ISO20022-compliant rails, Bill Pay, Pay Employees - Quickbooks. ◆ Led the build of new advisor and client portals under a year providing key features thereby supporting a straight-through processing (STP) platform optimizing the end-to-end mortgage process resulting 75% decrease in manual steps and enhancing overall efficiency and customer experience◆ Established and ramped up multiple new Agile squads, driving the adoption of modern engineering practices enabling daily production releases in highly regulated environment.◆ Orchestrated the creation of an Architecture as Practice (AAP) within Digital to reduce redundancy, streamline decision-making, foster engineering autonomy, and support the growth of 150-200 developers.𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 : Spring Boot, Angular, Node, Mongo, GraphQL, Apigee, Redis, Kafka, Jenkins, PCF, Azure, Threatmetrix, Taplytics, Google Analytics

Managed 5+ cross-functional distributed scrum teams composed of FTEs, vendors, and contractors, overseeing substantial multi-million dollar budgets across Enterprise Risk and Core Banking units.◆ Owned full responsibility for all aspects of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from requirements gathering, solution architecture to design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance and providing L2/L3 support.◆ Acted as a subject matter expert (SME) for new programs, feasibility analysis, estimations, PAR approvals, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and managing dependencies across various systems.𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬:◆ Designed and delivered a SOX-compliant wholesale credit risk platform, enabling advanced PD/UGD/LGD risk modeling, improving model accuracy by mapping 25-years of data, provided rerun capabilities and saving vendor and license costs by adopting open source technologies.◆ Solved the complex challenge of integrating credit risk systems following a major acquisition with US Bank, designing a new architecture that enabled seamless risk modeling for a combined borrower base while optimizing for cost and efficiency.◆ Successfully led the final stages of a multi-year program to replace a critical cash management system, resolved design and integration issues, added DevOps capabilities, and launched the platform across 9 cash centers.◆ Built multiple enterprise web applications automating all manual functions from identification of risk to managing defaults, recoveries, write offs thereby saving hours of manual effort.◆ Fostered a strong engineering culture that embraced Agile and DevOps principles, championed automated testing, pioneered a Dev-QA hybrid model, and drove early adoption of modern technologies like Vue.js, Spark, OCP.◆ Recognized for contributions to innovation and technical excellence, receiving 2 promotions, 2 "Made a Difference" awards, and selection for the prestigious RBCx innovation program.

Partnered with portfolio managers, traders, and analysts in Global Capital Markets and Tactical Asset Allocation to modernize all core systems in a fast-paced agile environment.◆ Handled full accountability of the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering, elicitation, design, develop, test, and launch new IT-managed solutions.◆ Pioneered an early DevOps platform, implementing continuous integration with Subversion, automated builds using Maven, artifact management with Artifactory, and automated deployments via Jenkins thereby enabling faster releases and improved collaboration.◆ Deepened understanding of the financial domain by passing CFA Level 1 and CSC exams.𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬:◆ Designed and built holdings and P&L management system that automated intra-day reconciliation every 2 minutes (weekly before), increasing efficiency and enabling real-time portfolio insights.◆ Built next generation order management by automating the entire trade lifecycle (market pricing to execution), with integrated risk analytics, eliminating manual intervention, and optimizing trade execution through innovations like internal order matching and phantom trades.◆ Designed parallel testing framework to compare data between the existing legacy and new systems, ensuring a seamless migration and reducing the risk of production issues.𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤: Java, Hibernate, Seam, Sql Server, Maven, JBoss, Ant, Spring, Spring Batch, Qlikview, Datastage

After immigrating to Canada, I started my career with exciting consulting technology delivery, utilizing my background in design, architecture, team management, and client relationships. I later transitioned to full-time roles in the engineering space.𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬:◆ Managed a global team to successfully deliver a major data migration project involving migrating millions of complex data points (customer orders, inventory data, and financial transactions) necessitating the development of a custom solution for the biggest retailer (Hudson Bay) in Canada. Timely and quality delivery made it feasible timely launch across hundreds of stores nationwide just under a quarter.

𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬:◆ Designed and implemented key features for the Falcon trading engine, including order processing, matching, pricing, implied order functionality, and market data dissemination. ◆ Built an automated testing framework that significantly optimized testing efficiency, reducing regression test time by over 75%.

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝟑𝐃𝐬 (𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧, 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲)Infosys ignited my passion for building client-centric software solutions that deliver value. Starting as a trainee, I embraced every opportunity to learn and grow, taking on increasing responsibilities in engineering, team leadership, and project delivery. This journey instilled in me a deep understanding of client needs and the importance of delivering high-quality solutions within budget.◆ Gained extensive experience across a wide range of clients, business domains, and technology stacks, leading multiple cross-functional global teams and delivering end-to-end solutions.◆ Successfully led all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from requirement gathering and analysis to design, development, testing, integration, and releases.◆ Managed multiple projects from RFP response and contract negotiation to successful delivery, encompassing scope definition, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation, while ensuring projects met quality standards and client objectives.𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬:◆ 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐭𝐞𝐪 (𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬): Architected and built a comprehensive POI lifecycle management platform, encompassing core data handling systems, web application, integration with various third-party services, and a robust reporting and analytics engine. This platform, powered data for major maps, location, and navigation services.◆ 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐨𝐧: Developed various modules for the e-commerce platform used to develop websites and in-store applications for major retailers like Bebe and later re-platforming it from Perl/Mason to a service-oriented architecture (the early stages of Amazon Web Services for internal use).◆ 𝐂𝐀 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬: Development of Siteminder Policy Server and Web Agent, enhancing security and access management capabilities across multiple operating systems.