Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 · 11 mos · Nairobi County, Kenya · On-site

• 1. Led a 200+ member global engineering, product, QA, and platform team
• delivering mission-critical SaaS FinTech solutions across East Africa and
• India.
• 2. Defined and executed enterprise technology and product strategy, aligning
• innovation roadmaps with corporate growth and market expansion goals.
• 3. Instituted AI-augmented engineering practices (predictive debugging, AI-
• driven code reviews, intelligent automation) to improve developer velocity and
• product quality.
• 4. Oversaw multi-million-dollar technology budgets, balancing cost optimization,
• scalability, and innovation investment for long-term value creation.
• 5. Chaired technology steering and governance committees, ensuring
• architectural integrity, compliance with local central banks, PCI-DSS, GDPR,
• and alignment with group-level business strategy.
• 6. Partnered with commercial teams, banks, insurance providers, and SACCOs
• across East Africa to co-create digital banking, core insurance, and SACCO
• automation platforms, driving higher adoption and retention.
• 7. Spearheaded cloud-native SaaS modernization of legacy financial platforms,
• enabling faster time-to-market and scalable deployments across multiple
• countries.
• 8. Engaged directly with regulators and C-level executives of financial
• institutions, ensuring solutions met compliance, resilience, and cybersecurity
• benchmarks.
• 9. Drove customer-centric product development strategies that improved user
• experience, increased mobile adoption, and accelerated revenue growth
• across East African banking and insurance markets.
• 10. Built strategic partnerships with telcos, payment providers, and financial
• regulators to enhance digital ecosystems and expand Eclectics’ footprint in
• emerging markets.

Jul 2024 – Oct 2024 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Spearheaded client acquisition initiatives, successfully expanding the customer base in Germany and tier 2/3 cities in India.
• Developed and implemented in-house school and hospital management software, enhancing operational efficiency for clients.
• Provided strategic consultation to companies, redefining architecture standards and engineering practices, resulting in improved team performance.

Apr 2021 – Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · Hybrid

• 1. Built and led a high-performing engineering team from scratch that delivered multiple critically acclaimed features like Launch & Login, key SDK Integrations resulting in increased revenue andhigh client satisfaction.
• 2. Hired, retained, and developed new engineers to support the growth of the Engineering Services offerings resulting in a 20% increase in productivity.
• 3. Collaborated with other verticals and vendor partners to develop strategies for future initiatives based on the bank’s overall objectives resulting in a 15% increase in revenue.
• 4. Evaluated new technologies and APIs resulting in the implementation of new API styles which improved overall performance by 20%.
• 5. Successfully launched critical SIM Binding Feature, Geo Location tracking, risk and behavioral analytics
• 6. Participated in resourcing, planning of sprints, and tactical execution of initiatives like prod-tech roadmap, resulting in on-time and within budget product features delivery

Sep 2020 – Mar 2021 · 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• 1. Worked on MDM and RDM implementations using Tibco EBX
• 2. Evaluated Address validation tools like Loqate and USPS to define the trade-off of the scope and need.

Jul 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Contributed to the development of several critically acclaimed
• streamlining of MDM, CDM (Customer Data) and notification
• engine resulting in increased revenue and high client
• Developed & maintained core CDM system resulting30%
• reduction in streamlining customer data for new & existing data.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless
• integration of prod features resulting in improved data quality.
• Mentored TL’s, engineers resulting in increased productivity
• and technical skills.
• Implemented and adhered to agile methodologies resulting in
• improved project management and on-time delivery satisfaction.
• Designed and implemented a CDM solution which improved
• accuracy in customer data and their allocations by 20%

Apr 2018 – Feb 2019 · 10 mos

May 2017 – Apr 2018 · 11 mos

• 1. Worked as a tech lead at IQVIA as an MDM design and solution specialist.
• 2. Translating the client requirements into functional processes and deliver a Master Data Management (MDM) solution that incorporates various data sources.
• 3. Strong technical background and experience in creating service-oriented solutions in an MDM and BDF (Hadoop) environment.
• 4. Ability to provide technical leadership to ensure that client MDM/RDM projects are appropriately prioritized, planned, and executed.
• 5. Ability to work in a team environment and in a collaborative mode.
• 6. Experience with MDM tools to design and implement appropriate business solutions like EBX5
• 7.Knowledge of Java, JVM architecture and ability to utilize Web Service API’s (SOAP/REST) to extract and load data.
• 8. Good knowledge of data structure types and formats such as SQL, CSV, JSON, and XML.
• 9. Used Teiid a data virtualizing tool in integrating various data sources to align them to meet the business goals.
• 10. Responsibilities Working in a team-leading design and delivery of client solutions, with the ability to deal with all technical aspects with strict agile implementations.
• 11. Experience with MDM tools to design and implement appropriate business solutions.
• 12. Experience with CRM tools to facilitate data load, extraction, and reporting.
• 13. Knowledge of Apache Avro and KAFKA
• 14. Usage of PEX and postman

Oct 2014 – Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• 1. Worked as a Lead Developer at IMS Health with Project and Team management.
• 2. Providing advice, guidance and expertise in developing proposals and strategies for system design and development
• 3. Have successfully handled the responsibilities of the transition of critical four reference data systems of IMS from CTS (Cognizant Technology Solutions) as a transition manager/ coordinator responsibilities
• 4. Have travelled to UK twice and Germany once to build a good exposure of various teams and users
• 5. Extensively handled many of the clients with effective stakeholder management skills
• 6. Analyze, design, coordinate and supervise the development of software systems to form a basis for the solution of information processing problems.
• 7. Have worked on the Microsoft project planning, costing and forecasting as an additional responsible being a team lead
• 8. Having exposures in transition of the systems effectively (Acted as a transition manager) and good team leading capabilities from last 3 years with a very good successive rate

Jul 2012 – Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• 1. Have created an automated framework to pull the CEGEDIM Locations and Person data which is linked to a specific health care region for the client CEGEDIM
• 2. Have implemented the partition structures in the database to optimize the performance
• 3. Have developed a tool (using advanced Unix shell scripting and PL/SQL) to extract dynamic data for the client CELESIO in the aggressive timelines
• 4. Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design

Jun 2011 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr · Bangalore

• Effectively worked and supported products like Thomson Reuters products like Thomson one, Deals and Public Files

Jul 2007 – May 2011 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

• Prepared the Program Specifications and the Unit Test Plan for the enhancements.
• Used almost all important features of PL/SQL such as Functions and procedures and almost all important Form triggers and Built-in packages.
• Experience in resolving defects during testing, migration & support
• Provided support to the integration testing team in resolving issues.
• Interpersonal skills coupled with a spirit of teamwork have enabled me to always interact effectively with clients.
• Responsible for technical assessment, planning & scheduling, analysis, design, development, implementation, training and technical support.
• Troubleshooting of issues related to running environment to which the coding part is implemented and also responsible for patch releases.