Distinguished Engineer

• Jan 2023 - Present

giftcards.com is the primary D2C (direct to consumer) online channel for Blackhawk Network, to sell personalised gift card products, for a wide array of brands (open loop, closed loop & original content) in both digital (eGift) & physical form. I am currently working on uplifting the customer-experience and globalising the domain to serve international regions too (alongside US domestic). giftcards.com is the primary D2C (direct to consumer) online channel for Blackhawk Network, to sell personalised gift card products, for a wide array of brands (open loop, closed loop & original content) in both digital (eGift) & physical form. I am currently working on uplifting the customer-experience and globalising the domain to serve international regions too (alongside US domestic).

Distinguished Engineer

• May 2022 - Present

Engineering Lead - Payment Solutions

• May 2020 - Jan 2023

Built new payment and commerce solutions to provide digital experience in physical retail stores:1. ScanIt - mobile-first contact-light commerce solution for buying digital gift cards (eGifts) in physical retail stores, by the scan of a QR code2. LoadIt - API solution to enable customers with digital wallets be able to load cash to the wallets (in pure currency form or crypto), by the scan of a barcodeDesignation: Senior Director of Engineering

Head of Engineering - India SDC

• May 2020 - May 2021

This was our 0 to 1 phase of creating new SDC (Strategic Development Center) for BHN - discovery and on-boarding of talent that can progress BHN towards a new transformation. I was accountable for the engineering organization and lead the teams till we achieved knowledge depth and operating model for each scrum team to own and deliver on respective themes. Designation: Director of Engineering This was our 0 to 1 phase of creating new SDC (Strategic Development Center) for BHN - discovery and on-boarding of talent that can progress BHN towards a new transformation. I was accountable for the engineering organization and lead the teams till we achieved knowledge depth and operating model for each scrum team to own and deliver on respective themes. Designation: Director of Engineering

Engineering Lead - Online Groceries - Catalog & Search

• May 2018 - May 2020

Responsible for https://groceries.asda.com/ - Catalog & Search. Lead the modernisation of catalog and search platforms while ensuring stability of legacy. Great outcomes in the form of robust, functionally rich and low-latency micro-services powering the shopping experience on the site and apps. Collective transformation to optimise time and maximise the efforts on thoroughness in design and modeling, code hygiene and embracing of operations skills. Excellent partnerships with merchandising team to de-risk product-management workflows and continually save operational cost. Likewise with infrastructure teams to experiment with new techniques to make the dev and deploymemt workflows super efficient. Tech stack: APIs in Java and Python, Data streaming and batching models, ATG (BCC, Endeca, XM), Kafka, GraphQL, SOLr, Spark, Cassandra, MS-SQL, OneOps based deployments in Azure and everything DevOps. Designation: Senior Engineering Manager II Show less

Engineering Lead - B2B Catalog & Search

• Oct 2016 - Apr 2018

Developed Cross-Catalog Search feature, to remove the need for remote punch-out flow and minimize search time for Buyers. Incepted Maximus, a major initiative to scale and unify the B2B workflows, through a distributed services architecture, from the point of master-content creation to curation of catalogs for enterprise buyers. Tech stack: Java, JavaScript (+ Ariba Web), Kafka, SAP Hana, Docker, Hashicorp (Consul, Vagrant, Nomad) Developed Cross-Catalog Search feature, to remove the need for remote punch-out flow and minimize search time for Buyers. Incepted Maximus, a major initiative to scale and unify the B2B workflows, through a distributed services architecture, from the point of master-content creation to curation of catalogs for enterprise buyers. Tech stack: Java, JavaScript (+ Ariba Web), Kafka, SAP Hana, Docker, Hashicorp (Consul, Vagrant, Nomad)

Senior Engineer

• Jan 2014 - Sep 2016

Engineering Lead - Data (Equities Trading)

• Aug 2012 - Sep 2016

Designed and built low-latency trading data-distribution platform, to serve 300 million transactions per trading-day (with peak-rates of 20K/second transactions), leading to $5 million+ annual savings and new business opportunities in medium to high-frequency trading (HFT) domain.Transformed the Equities Trading Data organization with flow-simplification, capacity-uplift & team-integration initiatives, covering multiple business-lines and regions.Worked closely & intensely, with each region (Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, UK, US, Brazil), bridging across diverse cultures to evangelize the new platform, and save operational costs.Enlisted in the 1st batch of Senior Engineers in GS.Tech stack: Java, RedHat MRG, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Sybase (IQ), Elastic Search, JavaScript (jQuery) Show less

Vice President

• Jan 2007 - Sep 2016

Engineering Lead - Compliance & Trading (PWM)

• Nov 2009 - Jul 2012

Provided technical mentorship to compliance, middle-office & mutual-funds trading tech teams in Bangalore. All 3 teams developed subject-matter expertise and progressed to become the center of excellence.Lead the Selling Restrictions Compliance project (as tech lead & business analyst), which saved cross-border trading risk for GS wealth-management business.Contributed in a major way to stabilize & scale the pre & post trade Compliance rule-engines & data-processing infra.Tech stack: Java, Sybase, iLog Show less

Engineering Lead - Portfolio Accounting (PWM)

• Dec 2007 - Oct 2009

Lead the global team for the definition & execution of PA Roadmap i.e. the strategic architecture for portolio accounting. This entailed careful refactor of the Gloss custody system, integration with Advent Geneva accounting engine, complete re-write of the taxlot-reporting layer (near real-time snapshots) & a difficult data-conversion (for inception-to-date reporting use-cases).Tech stack: C++, Java, Sybase, Advent Geneva, GLOSS

Application Developer - Portfolio Accounting (PWM)

• Mar 2005 - Dec 2007

Started the Portfolio Accounting function and team, for PWM (Private Wealth Management), in Bangalore office. Solved medium to hard problems, notably in the following areas:1. Built a high-performing global team ground-up.2. Developed solutions to see through the EOL (end-of-life) phase of the Solaris based accounting-engine that we were using:a. built a purge utility to dynamically remove past taxlots and activities.b. enhanced the accounting engine to split itself into multiple instances when it was in the zone of reaching 2Gb size and enhanced the custody system (GLOSS) to load-balance and route trades optimally.c. built a test framework to assert key accounting algorithms in use, simulating both year-to-date and inception-to-date scenarios.2. Enabled Engineering & Operations teams to partner in creating a Reconciliation & Reporting tool, to minimize risk of P/L breaks. The solution helped optimize the Operations team structure and created opportunities for the team to work on projects instead of just production-support. The tool (called PARRAT) was nominated in GS-connect expo and won the Popular choice award.3. Actively contributed to RFPs to replace the existing accounting-engine and define the strategic architecture / roadmap.Tech stack: C++, Sybase, Advent Geneva, GLOSS Show less

Application Developer - Market Risk

• Aug 2004 - Feb 2005

As part of new Goldman office setup in Bangalore, I was part of a 4 member incubation team for Market Risk Computation - enhanced the existing FX risk-calculation engine (coded in Slang) and setup a new Linux & SecDb based compute-farm.

Software Engineer

• Jul 2000 - Jul 2004

Delivered key projects for Lehman Brothers and JP Morgan Chase, in Program Trading and Custody Services divisions respectively. Provided trainings in Gurgaon and Bangalore offices.

Software Engineer (Consultant) - Lehman Brothers

• Mar 2002 - Sep 2003

Built a core Java based auto-trading engine to implement an algorithmic model that automatically adjusted with respect to real-time market data variance. The solution ultimately became one of the two primary auto-trading engines used on the Program Trading floor.

Software Engineer (Consultant) - J.P. Morgan Chase Bank

• May 2001 - Feb 2002

Developed Transaction Flow Manager and Health Monitor, as part of the Financial Industry Gateway initiative, to enable straight-thru-processing (STP) for Custodian flows, built with core Java, EJB & JSP.