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
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.
Engineering leader for Bread’s buy now pay later service and infrastructure teams. Scaling teams, coaching and establish hiring practices.
Digital Asset
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
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
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
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
Lead engineer on the risk platform with a focus on performance and stability improvements.
Morgan Stanley
Senior Software Engineer/Associate
Lead engineer on the equities and derivatives trading platforms.
Glaxo Smith Kline
Senior Software Developer
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
Lead engineer in the design and development of study management platform to support clinical studies.
Texas Tech Health Science Center
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Design and development of web based portal for report discovery and management.
Skills
Golang, Java, Scala, C#, Javascript, Python, SQL
Cloud Native, Microservices, Event-Driven Systems, API(REST, RPC), Observability, Distributed Systems, Distributed Ledger, Domain-Driven Design, Testing Methodologies
PostgreSQL, Messaging(Kafka, RabbitMQ), ksqlDB, Caching(Redis), AWS, GCP, MongoDB, DataDog, Kubernetes, Docker
Agile, Kanban, Architecture Governance(Principles, Standards), RFCs, ADRs, C4
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