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Highly accomplished technical leader, engineer and architect with a proven track record of driving exceptional results and successfully delivering complex and scalable solutions across different technologies and domains.
Thought leader skilled in mentoring and coaching, responsible for guiding teams and organizations in modern practices and concepts.Passionate engineer keen on learning new technologies and applying them to provide innovative solutions to real-world problems.
Hands-on engineer and architect well versed in applying best practices across foundational pillars - security, scalability, reliability, performance and operational readiness with a long history in cloud native development and transformation.

Experience

Bread Financial Holdings

Principal Engineer / Principal Enterprise Architect

New York

Apr 2020 - Present

Hands-on technology leader and architect for the BreadPay platform primarily focused on loans and lending products. Define platform strategy and establish roadmap. Advisory role supporting the cards business in various modernization initiatives. Mentoring and coaching engineers, providing feedback and guidance on their projects.

Director of Engineering

New York

Mar 2019 - Apr 2020

Engineering leader for Bread’s buy now pay later service and infrastructure teams. Scaling teams, coaching and establish hiring practices.

Digital Asset

Engineering Team Lead

New York

Aug 2016 - Mar 2019

Team Leader for the design and development of the solution framework on the daml based distributed ledger platform. Global lead for developing the settlement system using smart contracts and distributed ledger to replace the legacy system for a leading exchange.

Lab49

Associate Director

New York

Dec 2015 - Aug 2016

Practice head supporting lab’s compute practice through coaching and mentoring. Support pre-sales process through analysis and client engagements. Perform architecture reviews and recommendations across various engagements.

Principal Software Engineer

New York

May 2013 - Dec 2015

Lead large scale transformational engagements - Citi (Yield Book - Fixed Income Analytics Platform) and FannieMae (Lending Platform). Career development and mentorship for lab’s compute practice.

Software Engineer - Senior Software Engineer

New York

Nov 2009 - May 2013

Real Time desktop trading applications, Web based single dealer platforms and portfolio management systems across various investment banks and hedge funds.

Barclays

Senior Software Engineer/Assistant Vice President

New York

Aug 2009 - Nov 2009

Lead engineer on the risk platform with a focus on performance and stability improvements.

Morgan Stanley

Senior Software Engineer/Associate

New York

Aug 2007 - Aug 2009

Lead engineer on the equities and derivatives trading platforms.

Glaxo Smith Kline

Senior Software Developer

King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

Mar 2006 - Aug 2007

Lead engineer in the design and development of study management platform to support clinical studies.

Texas Tech Health Science Center

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Lubbock, Texas

Dec 2004 - Mar 2006

Design and development of web based portal for report discovery and management.

Skills

Programming Languages

Golang, Java, Scala, C#, Javascript, Python, SQL

Architecture

Cloud Native, Microservices, Event-Driven Systems, API(REST, RPC), Observability, Distributed Systems, Distributed Ledger, Domain-Driven Design, Testing Methodologies

Tools/Technologies

PostgreSQL, Messaging(Kafka, RabbitMQ), ksqlDB, Caching(Redis), AWS, GCP, MongoDB, DataDog, Kubernetes, Docker

People/Process

Agile, Kanban, Architecture Governance(Principles, Standards), RFCs, ADRs, C4

Industry Knowledge

FinTech (BNPL, Loans), Payment Systems, Equities, Fixed Income

Education

Texas Tech University
Master of Science, Computer Science

Lubbock, TX
Aug 2002 - May 2005

Madras University
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science

Chennai, India
Aug 1998 - May 2002