Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Singapore

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Singapore

Apr 2024 – Mar 2025 · 11 mos

• As HO ADAPT, I provide a critical E2E Enterprise Data Platforms as a Service to Westpac Group. It involves building, owning and running the technology platform and building broad stakeholder relationships, ensuring the work we do drives enterprise relevance. It involves setting the strategic vision, beyond technology, and driving organisational transformation.
• The responsibility and accountability is to ensure the financial viability, sustainability, usability and evolvability of the platform ensuring it is evergreen in providing enterprise data products, advanced analytics capabilities, digital innovation, ML and GenAI opportunities for our customers, the LOBs and the end customer experience.

Nov 2021 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• ✓ Leading Cloud and BigData Platforms Engineering at Westpac, Australia
• ✓ Data Driven Experiences Platform (DDEP) – Platform Owner at Westpac, Australia
• ✓ Owning Design and Build of real-time / streaming platform components with zero-message loss, ingest, transform, look-up, sync and rules engine
• ✓ Evolving Bigdata workloads onto Microsoft Azure PaaS
• ✓ Owns Cloud infra, Batch, Steaming and Real-time solutions and capabilities

Jul 2021 – Oct 2021 · 3 mos

• Data Platforms

Jul 2018 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Platform Engineering; Data Engineering products delivery; PaaS migration evangelisation; BigData Solution Governance.
• ➢ Created the vision and delivering on the continually evolving BigData platform Architecture landscape, E2E Unified Logical Architecture and Roadmap to achieve target state.
• ➢ Owning Batch and Real-time Ingestion, transformation, egress and consumption pattern definitions.
• ➢ Key-map-repository (KMR): Batch and Real-time Service delivery.
• ➢ Service Manager (SM): Delivering on a Data Engineering product that fills in for a lack of microservice registry, monitoring, alerting and self healing kubernetes service on Hadoop distro.
• ➢ Currently experimenting with large scale Bigdata workloads migration to Azure PaaS Data storage and compute offerings.
• ➢ Responsible for the vision, evolution and delivery of :
• o The meta-data driven, pyspark based BigData batch Ingestion, transformation and egress framework
• o The meta-data driven, self-healing, zero-message loss, spark-streaming and kafka real-time and streaming Ingest, transform, look-up, sync, rules engine and notification platform components

May 2016 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Singapore

• Hadoop Architecture and engineering for Enterprise Data Management Platform (EDMp) - Information Management (IM) team. Enabled enterprise data search on Solr for Financial Crime investigations, bringing down the turn around time to seconds from weeks. Conceptualized and built the Hadoop Data transformation framework.

May 2013 – Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Singapore

• Drove data and analytics initiatives for strategic cost and process optimization. Introduced, educated, evaluated various Hadoop Ecosystems and drove selection and technology adoption. Identified, conceptualized and developed solutions around Online Archival, Data- type agnostic Enterprise Data Hub, ETL offloading and real-time actionable customer 360 solutions on the Hadoop. Designed architected and governed the Teradata SMBB and virtualization initiative. Lead the reference data management, BIP road map and expansion initiatives on CLV, NBA and Churn Analytics.

Feb 2012 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bulgaria

• Created and Institutionalized change management; reduced network and security GAPs; created near time replication with Oracle EXADATA and Golden Gate; optimized cost and resource by server consolidation; created contactless payment and partnership programs for new revenue; initiated Flexcube RFPs and drove transformational data-driven operational efficiency with advanced analytics.

Nov 2010 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos · Singapore

• As Architecture and FSLDM Modelling team head, developed cost effective solutions for OCBC Bank Singapore for their EDW projects in TERADATA FSLDM. Implemented MLPPI and achieved drastic IO and CPU usage reduction (over100%). Analyzed MIS SG E2E manual and performance delays, process and non-critical path delays and redefined them to achieve a reduction from 22 days to 11 days.

Dec 2007 – Nov 2010 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Architected and Implemented MAS 759 and 760 projects for OCBC Bank Singapore for measuring and controlling unsecured credit-lending portfolio with GL reconciliation. Trained personnel in Teradata and ab-initio technologies. Engaged in pre-sales and consulting for various Wipro clients for data warehousing and business intelligence projects.

Feb 2006 – Nov 2007 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Lead the sojourner, double click, search and clickstream analysis projects on Teradata and
• ab-initio for eBay. Key contributor in winning cmmi certification for Cognizant BIDW practice.

Jul 2001 – Jan 2006 · 4 yrs 6 mos

• Onsite Technical Lead and Coordinator for enhancements to Citigroup Private Bank’s Client Communication System (CCS) and Wealth Management System (WMS) in Singapore and London.
• Team member in developing the new Advice Generation System (AGS) as part of Project1 initiative with ab-Initio, Oracle 9i and Papyrus to replace legacy Open VMS, Pro* C, DecForms based system.
• Developer for S17 / S18, U1099 tax reporting for European and American financial monitoring agencies (Consolidated, multi-dimensional slice and dice views of client exposure and transactions)