Sep 2021 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Austin, Texas, United States · On-site

• Driving all-up architecture and engineering for BaaS platforms and CS Products. Responsibilities include:
• 1. Team composition and hiring top talent: 50-member team Including experts in cloud computing, API design, software architecture, and domain-specific knowledge in banking and finance
• 2. Architecture Decisions: decisions to make the platform incrementally more modular, customizable, extensible, cloud-based, API-Driven, multi-tenant, and rules-driven platform
• 3. Clear Vision and Goal Setting: Clearly articulate the goals and objectives of the platform and product release and ensure that the team understands the bank's vision for the FinTech division
• 4. Developer Thriving Framework: Defining a framework that fosters a culture of metrics, continuous improvement and innovation that empowers developers, and testers and enhances productivity and overall quality of the deliverables
• 5. Security and Compliance: Prioritize security and compliance requirements, especially in the fintech domain. Implement robust security measures, encryption standards, and access controls to protect sensitive data and ensure regulatory compliance.

May 2018 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Built and led SWAT teams comprising senior architects, engineering managers, and engineers with a dedicated focus on innovation in Conversational AI, Chatbots, and Security and coming up with accelerators that help speed up the innovation and digital transformation of customer implementations.
• Direct report to CPO and dotted reporting to CTO.
• Accomplishments:
• Conversational AI Banking Framework. pre-built, pre-trained, customizable, read-to-deploy multi-channel conversational experiences that help banks speed up Digital transformations that engage customers with productivity gains, and unparalleled access to data and Insights. This involved the intelligent orchestration of cognitive SaaS services such as NLPs, sentiment analysis, language translations, etc. combined with Infinity business services.
• Kony IQ – An intelligent AIML assistant that helps app developers by providing context-sensitive help and improve developer productivity in adhering to the best practices in building great mobile apps.
• 50+ key components, and accelerators to speed up the innovation in conversational (voice and text), AR, Blockchain, AIML, Security, and other technologies.
• co-hosted org-level architecture board (Arch Council) along with senior architects, CTO, CPO, and other senior management.

Mar 2016 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Built and led an org of 100+ team comprising of senior architects, engineering managers, product engineers, and support engineers. The primary focus was on building customizable, extensible Digital Baking platforms and prepackaged apps.
• Direct report to CPO leading all Engineering, QA, and Support functions.
• Accomplishments:
• built a high-performing strong tech product team and established the engineering, support, and release processes for productivity and efficiency
• conceptualized, designed, and delivered a reference architecture for customizable, extensible pre-packaged apps that allow customers to-do user experience or business workflow and functionality-related modifications with no limitations.
• Customizations and Upgradability. Responsible for conceptualizing, designing, driving, and delivering the needed tools, processes, and methodologies to make platform upgradability easy in the context of customer-specific customizations and extensions.
• established a center of excellence (CoE) to thrive internally for platform excellence and support customers in adopting the DBX platform. successfully measured, and monitored improving the efficacy of CoE.

Jul 2013 – Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Led a strong technical team of 80+ folks comprising senior architects, engineering managers, and senior product and support engineers. conceptualized and led the effort of building next-generation cross-platform mobile APIs, frameworks that formed the heart of the MADP platform enabling customers to build world-class iOS, Android, Windows, and Web-based apps.
• Direct report to CPO and dotted report to CTO leading all Engineering and Support functions.
• Accomplishments:
• built cross-platform mobile frameworks, APIs, and workflows - secret sauce behind Quantum’s WORE (Write-Once and Run-Everywhere), low-code, no-code platforms strategy. This includes building rich native libraries of widgets, and APIs across iOS, Android, and Windows OS's and exposing them as JS APIs; and leveraging JavaScript Engine that can act as a glue and delegate JS API calls to the pre-built native libraries allowing citizen developers to build rich native app experiences with no-code/low-code
• Led continuous innovation and improvements targeting richer experiences and productivity of app developers. new flex layout, animation frameworks, and native function interface (NFI) that allows accessing mobile native features with no limitations are some of the examples of cornerstone additions to the platform.
• Played a critical role in defining the vision, and roadmap of the MADP platform and in making the technology, and execution choices. successfully delivered key customer critical quantum releases by closely working with product managers, architects, engineers, and senior management.

Dec 2009 – Jun 2013 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Led a team of 40+ brilliantly talented folks and was directly responsible for architecting, designing, and delivering the Quantum MADP frameworks and Mobile Cloud Fabric. Fabric is a large-scale distributed, highly available, high-performing, secure middleware platform; worked closely with fellow architects, engineers, and product managers in designing and delivering the platform; and involved in hands-on co-hacking and co-debugging the key critical production blocker issues.
• Accomplishments:
• Architected the addition of JavaScript as an additional app development language (in addition to Lua) helping increase customer adoption of the platform. this involved experimenting and integrating the proven JavaScript engines into native libraries and re-designing all the framework APIs to meet performance benchmarks.
• Designed a new version of intuitive APIs to expose various iOS, and Android underlying new platform features with the challenge of ever-evolving native SDKs.
• Designed, and delivered highly scalable, stateless, secure, micro-services based, mobile cloud fabric with the support for app-data-models that can be mapped to front-end UI/UX elements and on the other side, can be integrated into back-end data services; successfully proven to host and run high-volumes of sessions of mission-critical apps built in the areas of retail, travel, banking.

Dec 2007 – Jan 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

• As a founding member of the product engineering team was responsible for conceptualizing the WORE (Write Once and Run Everywhere) idea in the mobile space and played in architecting, designing and delivering the initial 5 releases of MADP frameworks and Mobile Cloud Fabric products. Involved hands-on in various POCs and feature implementations related to supporting iOS, Android platforms, and cloud fabric.

Feb 2002 – Oct 2007 · 5 yrs 8 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Architect shaping up Java infrastructure i.e Java based frameworks, libraries and solutions for Virtusa's product customers like Converges, Vignette.
• ● Architecting, designing and delivering the server side enterprise Java components including cache components, MVC frameworks, thread pools, dependency injection frameworks, command, event processor frameworks, corba, soap connectors etc.
• ● Worked closely with senior architects from Converges, Vignette, Pramati and enjoyed learning tips, techniques thoroughly from the experiences of seniors arch from reputed product orgs.
• ● Involved in org level initiative of Technical Arch group (Tag) reviewing design, arch of solutions across servicing projects in Virtusa

Feb 1999 – Feb 2002 · 3 yrs · Hyderabad Area, India

• As a Software Engineer was part of the Mobile Practice at Seranova and also was part of American express project of Email extract programs involving writing perl, shell and C scripts.

Sep 1997 – Jan 1999 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Worked on C, C++, VC++ and Java projects.