Sep 2021 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Responsibilities
• Domain Architect for CPG (Cross Product Group) Technology as a part of Technology, Data and Innovation at Deutsche Bank
• Drive technical agenda and provide portfolio level technology services by prdoucing technical and functional solutions
• Member of the FIC (Fixed Income & Currency) Architecture & Design Authority team
• Perform architecture surveys and reviews
• Document and maintain current state architecture
• Define target architecture
• Simplify technology and application landscape
• Facilitate migration to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) whilst maintaining high levels of data security & control
• Engage with Business Analysts and other stakeholders to define requirements
• Engage with external teams to define integration requirements and design
• Design and implementation of applications and services
• Achievements
• Reporting solution
• Prepared, presented and got approval for the ADR (Architecture Decision Record) from the FIC Architecture and Design Authority
• Design and implement event-driven micro-services using Java, Oracle, MQ and other technologies
• Integrate with the Bank standard archival solution
• Implemented CAT controls for upstream data feeds
• Member of the Payment F4 Payment Control remediation team
• Defined and maintained Front-to-Back architecture for CPG
• Completed Ready-to-Build & Ready-to-Release surveys for services deployed to GCP
• Completed reviews from the Security Design Authority team for solutions deployed to GCP
• Performed Discovery & Architecture surveys every year
• Payment engineering
• Defined target architecture to simplify payment flows by integrating with bank standard settlement engine
• Design and implement event-driven micro-services using Java, Oracle, MQ and other technologies
• Architect & Design solution to publish data to downstream systems
• Participated in the VP Promotion process as a member of the panel

Oct 2019 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• This is a senior leadership role that is diverse, fast-paced and one that stretches you professionally. The role demands a deep technical expertise and inclusive leadership skills. The responsibilities are divided between actively engaged on client projects, new business development, and working to develop and support the engineering practice and people.
• As a member of the Financial Services go-to-market team, my responsibilities include:
• Provide technology support for proposals, bids, and pre-sales activities involving multi-million pound contracts and large teams
• Develop internal digital capabilities by providing thought & technical leadership and mentoring, guiding, and inspiring new talent
• Architect, lead and implement solutions on AWS and GCP cloud platforms for clients
• Lead and develop software with a team of 30 engineers using event-driven microservices and technologies like Java, Spring Boot, Spring Kafka, Redis, Activiti BPM, PostgreSQL, and MySQL
• Develop user-interface components for the Single Page Application (SPA) using NodeJS, ReactJS, GraphQL
• Lead agile delivery using Continuous Delivery technologies like Jenkins, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes, and ELK stack
• Work alongside Scrum master to enforce agile methodologies with the use of technologies like JIRA, BitBucket, Confluence etc.
• Lead and implement hybrid test framework for test automation using technologies like JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, and Serenity

Jan 2014 – Sep 2019 · 5 yrs 8 mos · Chessington, Greater London, United Kingdom

• As the Technical Director, I served multiple roles that were extremely diverse, fast-paced, with a mix of strategic planning, research and development.
• Created, maintained, and executed technology strategy and roadmap aligned with the business goals
• Kept on top of emerging technologies and implemented PoC to demonstrate how the technology brings value to the business
• Engaged with key clients and maintained regular communications through user groups and electronic communication channels
• Built, led, motivated, and inspired the software engineering team to work towards the company’s vision & strategy
• Provided AWS and GCP expertise to migrate the product to cloud and built new solutions on the cloud platform
• Architected, designed, and built robust and scalable product using event & message-driven micro-services and technologies like Java 8+, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate, Spring Security (SAML, OAuth2), Spring Kafka, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud, Spring REST, Spring Batch, Thymeleaf, JSP, SQL Server, and MySQL
• Developed the web & mobile interface using HTML, CSS, JavaScript ES6, jQuery, AngularJS, and NodeJS
• Designed and developed the licensing solution using JCE cryptography and PKI for CapEx and OpEx delivery model
• Improved application performance using code profiling, JMeter, JVM tuning, code optimisation, caching, and multithreading
• Designed and developed the hybrid framework for test automation using JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, and JMeter
• Implemented CI/CD & Continuous Delivery using technologies like JIRA, Confluence, Gerrit, Jenkins, Docker, and Bash scripting
• Implemented CMDB dashboard with data analysis & visualisation using Python, Flask, Jupyter Notebook, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL
• Implemented integration with JIRA, Google Translate, LiveChat, Zapier, AI/ML based chatbot using OpenAPI / Swagger & webhooks
• Implement payment gateway integration with Stripe for pay-as-you-go delivery model

Sep 2007 – Dec 2013 · 6 yrs 3 mos · Chessington, Greater London, United Kingdom

• As the Head of Development, I served multiple roles that were extremely diverse, fast-paced, with a mix of strategic planning, research and development.
• Created, maintained, and executed technology strategy and roadmap aligned with the business goals
• Kept on top of emerging technologies and implemented PoC to demonstrate how the technology brings value to the business
• Engaged with key clients and maintained regular communications through user groups and electronic communication channels
• Built, led, motivated, and inspired the software engineering team to work towards the company’s vision & strategy
• Architected, designed, and built robust and scalable product using technologies like Java 8+, Spring Web MVC, JSP, JDBC, and SQL Server
• Developed the web & mobile interface using HTML, CSS, JavaScript ES6, and jQuery
• Designed and developed the licensing solution using JCE cryptography and PKI for CapEx and OpEx delivery model
• Improved application performance using code profiling, JMeter, JVM tuning, code optimisation, caching, and multithreading
• Implemented CI/CD & Continuous Delivery using technologies like JIRA, Confluence, Gerrit, Jenkins, and Bash scripting

Feb 2006 – Sep 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• As an Senior Consultant, led and managed multiple projects across various domains and locations. Managed relationships with the customers & stakeholders, managed scope, plan and manage delivery and releases, facilitate requirements gathering and analysis, manage change requests. Setup and created reporting dashboards for management to show project delivery, risks, issues and financial control.
• As a Technical Lead and a member of the Java Centre of Excellence (CoE), my responsibilities included:
• Led multiple projects across various domains and locations
• Contributed to the technical architecture and design for the software
• Evaluated and selected the best fit technologies, frameworks, libraries, and tools
• Implemented the software using technologies covering the entire stack
• Ensured the software meets the business objectives, scope and requirements.
• Technologies
• Java, Apache Struts, JSP, SWING
• JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• SQL Server, Apache Ant, Bash Scripting

Jul 2003 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• As a Technical Lead, contributed to technical architecture, evaluated and selected best fit technologies, customising frameworks, libraries to meet business requirements, developed tools for process automation and improved quality & productivity. As a member of the Java CoE (Centre of Excellence) evaluated and piloted various frameworks, libraries, and tools for use in other projects.
• As the Senior Developer, gathered & analysed requirements, participated in estimations, scheduling and planning of releases, contributed to application design & implementation using Java, Apache Struts, JSP, JSTL, Java Servlets. SQL Server, Oracle, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Swing and performance analysis and tuning using code profiling & optimisation, caching using JCS, and JVM tuning to optimise heap memory, garbage collection and thread management for multi-threading support.

Jan 2001 – Jun 2003 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• As a Senior Developer, I contributed to the development of the “Outage Optimizer" web application for the E-biz group at Atlanta, GA. Worked with the business analysts and end users to gather & analyse requirements, contributed to the high and low level design with the technical lead, and developed the application using Java, EJB, JSP, JSTL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS and Oracle database on Unix platform. The team successfully completed the development on time and rolled out the application globally saving the customer millions of dollars in the very first quarter of going live.

Jul 1998 – Jan 2001 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• As a Developer, contributed to the development of the “Internet Initiative” application aimed at moving the manual process of buying and registering appliances, reporting failures, managing warranty etc. using an online portal. Contributed to the low level design of the application along with the team leader. Implemented the application using Pro C, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Oracle database on Unix platform.
• Successfully delivered and received accolades from GE Appliances for successfully delivering “Internet Initiative“ & “Super Product Plan” applications despite a few challenges.