Lakshmi Narasimhan (LaN)

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building high-performance engineering teams.
  • Proven track record in mobile banking and fintech solutions.
  • Strong leadership in transitioning to microservices architecture.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong capabilities in mobile banking and system design.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipSystem DesignBuilding Mobile AppsSoftware DevelopmentTeam Management

Other Skills

2FA AuthenticationATM networksAccountingBase24Business AnalysisCard PaymentsCardsClient PresentationsCloud ComputingCommunicationConsultingCredit CardsData MigrationDebit CardsDesign Framework

About

I'm highly passionate about building talented and motivated engineering teams to deliver great apps. This requires me to be hands-on engineer, designer and mentor teams to be self-managed. I have built high performance cross-functional teams from ground up scaling from 3-20 and mentoring them to deliver great value. Key Competencies: ✢ Building High performance teams ✢ Leadership ✢ System Design, Building Distributed Systems ✢ Building Mobile Apps ✢ Software Development ✢ Innovation & Problem Solving ✢ Agile (Certified Scrum Master) Technology Landscape: ✢ Java, J2EE, Golang ✢ Spring Framework, Spring Security, JPA, Gradle & Maven ✢ Oracle, Postgres ✢ Microservices, Openshift, AWS 2x Certified ✢ Kafka ✢ CI/CD, Devops, Devsecops ✢ Docker, Containerization, Kubernetes ✢ Big Data Domain: ✢ Retail Payments, E-commerce ✢ ATM, POS, Switching, VISA, MasterCard, Amex, Tokenisation, ISO8583, Acquiring, Issuing ✢ Card Payments, Digital Wallets ✢ Transaction Banking, Institutional Payments ✢ Fintech

Experience

Flipkart

Senior Engineering Manager

Jul 2022Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • I lead the Financial Data Management a.k.a accounting and Inventory Valuation Platform.
  • Accountable for Flipkart's Month End Closures (MECs)
  • Envision and Build Products to Improve Accuracy in Month End Closures
Financial Data ManagementAccountingInventory ValuationLeadershipSystem Design

Anz

Engineering Manager

May 2017Jun 2022 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

  • ✢ Leading ANZ's Corporate Mobile Banking App a.k.a Transactive Global Mobile
  • ✢ Designed Monolith -> Microservices architecture
  • ✢ Toggling between Hands-on Engineering to architect in a cross functional team to build new features
  • ✢ 2FA Authentication for High Value Payments
  • ✢ Implementation of Microsoft Code Push
  • ✢ Championed and setup Devops practices
  • ✢ Nigthly Regression runs, Migration to Helm, Building Cloud native Microservices
  • ✢ Running Cloud learning guilds
  • ✢ Learning and mentoring the team to build new stuff.
  • https://www.anz.com/institutional/transactive/
Mobile BankingMicroservicesDevOps2FA AuthenticationBuilding Mobile AppsSoftware Development

Fss

4 roles

Engineering Lead

Aug 2014May 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • ✣ Deputed to ANZ from FSS
  • ✣ Leading and Mentoring a Team of 15 People from FSS across functional Platform at ANZ
  • ✣ Played a variety of roles during this time ( Solution Design, Release Management, Technical Manager)
  • ✣ Designed and Built the Tokenisation framework at ANZ for Switching
  • ✣ Managing End-to-End delivery of all the resources
  • ✣ Resource Allocations, backups, replacements and training strategies
  • ✣ Attending Monthly Status Calls; Preparing Detailed Delivery statistics for the month
  • ✣ Handling Implementations, Incidents and resolving them
  • ✣ Handling Resource Feedback, issues and escalations
Solution DesignRelease ManagementTokenisation FrameworkSystem DesignTeam Management

Solution Designer

Apr 2013Aug 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • ❊ PCI DSS and Information Security Audits facilitation
  • ❊ Implementation of NTP protocol for Audit Assessments and Certifications across banks
  • ❊ Involved in designing of Cash-In systems for domestic banks including ICICI, SBI
  • ❊ Migration of Canara Bank Base24 to newer version of Release 6
PCI DSSInformation SecurityNTP ProtocolSoftware DevelopmentSystem Design

Solution Designer

Promoted

Oct 2009Apr 2013 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • ✢ Deputed from FSS to ANZ
  • ✢ Lead a Team of 10 people from FSS at ANZ.
  • ✢ Designer for all schemes(MC, VISA& AMEX) mandates during this time.
  • ✢ Designed framework for re-factoring VISA modules from scratch
  • ✢ Part of design forum to do technical reviews
  • ✢ Reviews of source code and Implementation Plans
  • ✢ Co-Ordinating with VISA/MasterCard for Technical Queries
  • ✢ Team Management, Organising weekly status calls
Team ManagementDesign FrameworkTechnical ReviewsSystem Design

Engineer

Jul 2005Oct 2009 · 4 yrs 3 mos

  • ✥ Hands-on development of valued added services in ATMs including Mobile Top-Up, Preferred transactions
  • ✥ Wrote a complete protocol (called CBCOM) from scratch for ACI - Italy
  • ✥ Developed features in ACI's base modules to be distributed to hundreds of clients worldwide
  • ✥ Real time demo & presentation of new banking products to client banks
  • ✥ Going to partner banks to implement major releases and resolving issues
  • ✥ Worked with the PCI Assessor – Control Case – to assess and get payment systems in FSS certified.
  • ✥ Represented FSS at ITUG and HP Non-Stop Conferences
DevelopmentProtocol WritingClient PresentationsSoftware DevelopmentTeam Management

Education

University of Madras

BTECH — Information Technology

Jan 2000Jan 2004

Hindu Senior Secondary School, Triplicane

High School

Jan 1994Jan 2000

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