Jan 2020 – Mar 2025 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Technology partner for Cargill's Trading & Risk Management portfolio driving IT-Business relationship via understanding strategic needs, formulating a Technology roadmap providing solutions that align seamlessly with overall Business goals.
• Build, manage, and scale high-performing engineering and product teams, fostering a culture of ownership, agility and continuous improvement.
• Experienced in building and launching complex platforms at scale that include both custom-build and "off-the-shelf" implementations. Annual PnL of $ 35+ million covering Business initiatives across 170 applications in Trading & Risk Management, Data & Analytics, Cloud/Web based domains.
• Built and nurtured teams across the US, EMEA and the Asia Pacific regions. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Strong analytical mindset with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
• Strong commercial focus with a proven track record of leading Business opportunities. Successfully delivered a $20M three year vendor platform implementation for the Metals business of Cargill in APAC. Led the implementation of a marquee $8M Global Derivatives platform for Cargill's Trade Operations team.
• Streamlined delivery and governance for a $20 million Data & Analytics program involving the standardization of Commodity Positions reporting processes across 120 business groups within Cargill.
• Delivery center budget and financial performance management. Achieved 30% cost savings for the Trading portfolio via Application Lifecycle management and Software licenses review.
• Identifying new opportunities/improvement avenues, drive innovation by imbibing new technologies, frameworks, and methodologies that can enhance product experiences and engineering productivity.
• New vendor selection/evaluation, Contracts and vendor negotiations. Pre-sales activities spearheading RFP initiatives.

Mar 2017 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Technology Lead for ANZ Institutional division's Middle and Back Office platform developing Technological strategies, product integrations and overall delivery transformation.
• Identified new business opportunities by partnering with Business teams across Australia and APAC, successfully influencing senior management to agree on the "custom" development of a Transaction Banking solution as opposed to new vendor setup.
• Led multiple functional teams in the delivery transformation of a $25 million Payments and Transaction Banking global initiative that aimed to provide a comprehensive suite of services including Cash Management, Trade finance and loans, Commercial cards, Market and Data insights.
• Worked closely with Platform Design and Product Engineering teams in driving the future state roadmap.
• Spearheaded a "proof-of-concept" AWS cloud initiative that aimed to migrate existing on-premises platforms onto the cloud.
• Piloted the first of a kind Agile Delivery methodology for a key Transaction Banking program.
• Led the setting up of an offshore development center for one of ANZ's key partner's.
• Strong commercial acumen driving Budgeting and Delivery P&L.
• Successfully implemented a TDD (Test driven development) approach encompassing the use of Automated testing tools such as Junit and Selenium, improving coding efficiency.
• Set up a DevOps approach for improved deployment practices, decreased failure rate of releases thereby ensuring a faster time to market. Wide usage of Agile/Scrum developmental development methodologies.

Jun 2011 – Feb 2017 · 5 yrs 8 mos

• Set up the engineering and development strategy for the team both from a technical and business domain perspective. Ensure that all products embody development best practices, efficient, scalable architecture, elegant design and high quality implementation.
• Managed a rapidly growing software development team of strong individual contributors.
• Leads, plans, organizes, and reports on the activities of the Program. Tracking and managing all deliverables while providing leadership for the global rollout of the program.
• Established partnerships and working groups among Business Stakeholders, Compliance and Technology teams to create synergies.
• Delivered projects (including hiring/staffing, ramping up, resolving technical conflicts, capacity planning, risk management, change management and expectation management) in line with committed timelines and within budget.
• Operational responsibilities included ensuring compliance with ANZ quality systems, driving quality processes and trustworthy computing initiatives throughout the product lifecycle to eliminate architecture, design and coding defects at the source. Handling customer escalations and ensuring customer satisfaction ensure that the team continues to enjoy ANZ as their second home.
• Formulated a TDD (Test driven development) approach encompassing the use of Automated testing tools such as Junit and Selenium across test phases.
• Set up a DevOps approach for improved deployment practices and decreased failure rate of releases thereby ensuring a faster time to market. Wide usage of Agile/Scrum developmental tools such as JIRA, Bamboo, Confluence, Sonar, Crucible, ALM amongst others.
• Liaise with vendor partners in drawing up Contracts/SOW’s and managing distributed Agile practices.
• Monitor and report on vendor service performance and resolve/ escalate issues immediately.

Oct 2009 – May 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Project manage Infrastructure and application projects across ANZ campuses world wide: Schedule/create a plan for the project deliverables, track the milestones and budget through the project phases and manage/report related risks & issues.

May 2005 – Oct 2009 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Involved in a number of EMEA and US Infrastructure Projects, requiring Delivery across numerous technical and Organizational competencies.

Mar 2003 – May 2005 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore, Chennai · On-site

• Pivotal role in setting up an offshore Delivery Centre at Chennai.
• New accounts setup and governance.
• Actively involved in the hiring/recruitment, setting up delivery processes, people and performance management.
• Transition to BAU teams.

Nov 2000 – Jan 2003 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Managed BAU operations in the domains of IT End User Support, Insurance.