Professional Journey
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J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Jersey City, NJ, USA
10+ Years of Engineering Leadership with the largest Financial Firm in the US, with their largest Cloud Deployments on Amazon Cloud
Senior Vice President
Atlas - MultiCloud Hybrid Platform for Identity/Network/Accounts Automation
- Responsible for engineering and leading a team of engineers at one of the largest cloud deployments in the world for managing their platform identity solutions.
- Part of larger platform team of AWS Landing Zone Architecture & Engineering, ensuring the management of accounts lifecycle, cloud to on-prem network connectivity, identity federation, privileged identity management, and JIT (just-in-time) privileged identity, in alignment with SOC2 compliance requirements.
Vice President
Magister - Infrastructure Orchestration
- Provided leadership to a team in the development of an infrastructure orchestration engine that streamlined the management of server, database, and storage lifecycles. Additionally, implemented micro-orchestration for individual components.
- Led the initiative to adopt the infrastructure engine across various areas, promoting its widespread usage and benefits.
- Successfully automated manual tollgates and processes, leading to a substantial reduction in server provisioning time from 30 days to less than 4 hours.
- Developed an orchestration platform based on the TOSCA specification.
- The platform enables seamless infrastructure provisioning of compute servers, databases, storage, and other components.
NTT Data Americas (aka Keane Inc.), Jersey City, NJ, USA
7+ Years of Goldman Sachs Consulting
Senior Principal Consultant @ Goldman Sachs
PnP - Product & Pricing
- Led a team in developing the Single Price Algorithm (SPA) utilizing the Drools rule engine. The SPA assists in identifying the best price from various vendor feeds for trading, portfolios, statements, accounting ledgers, and other pricing information requirements. Responsibilities included recruitment, mentoring, project management, application design, and architecture.
- Spearheaded the implementation of modern application practices for the Heroku-based PAAS platform, focusing on application development and deployment. Streamlined build and release management through Jenkins/TeamCity.
- Actively pursued innovation by adopting new technology paradigms such as the PAAS platforms Heroku, OpenShift, and Cloud Foundry.
Principal Consultant @ Goldman sachs
PnP - Product & Pricing
- Designed and developed an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for Goldman Sachs's Product and Pricing application.
- Leveraged Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) functionalities to integrate various vendor feeds, including Bloomberg, Reuters, LSE, NYSE, DowJones, and Euronext.
- The ESB implementation significantly reduced the onboarding time for product and pricing information feeds from months to weeks.
Senior Consultant @ Goldman sachs
MD Selection/ Firmwide Review System (FRS)
- Integrated a SAAS-based learning and content management application with on-prem systems using identity federation with SAML. Implemented single-source identity management by leveraging on-prem Active Directory.
- Re-engineered the Review System by improving the user interface with Ext-JS, resulting in a better UI and faster response times. Conducted load testing on critical components to ensure optimal performance.
- Developed a data warehouse from the transaction database for the Review System, enabling efficient data analysis and reporting.
- Created a business intelligence reporting application using Business Objects for the Firmwide Review System (FRS) and MD and Partner Selection, providing valuable insights and analytics for decision-making.
Senior Consultant @ Goldman sachs
Artemis - TimeEntry System
- Led the re-engineering efforts for the time-entry system, improving its functionality and performance.
- Successfully re-engineered the firmwide review system, enhancing its features and capabilities.
- Refactored cronjobs to autosys job scheduling, optimizing the job scheduling process for improved efficiency and reliability.
Senior Software Engineer
Education Testing Service (ETS), Princeton, NJ, USA
TOEFL Registration & Reporting System
TOEFL Registration & Reporting Application
- Provided leadership and guidance to a team of developers, ensuring the successful delivery of critical functionalities for the TOEFL registration and reporting applications.
- Utilized the Java stack, including technologies such as Struts, Hibernate, Command Pattern, EJB, and JMS, to develop application workflows for the TOEFL Registration & Reporting application.
Senior Software Engineer
Infosys, New York City, NY, USA
Clinical Trial Systems & FDA Compliance
Clinical Trial Records - Adverse Event Reporting System
- Provided leadership to a team of developers in an Onsite/Offshore model with a globally distributed team.
- Led the re-engineering efforts of a desktop application to a Java/Struts/JSP-based web application for clinical trial records, ensuring compliance with FDA/CFR 11 standards for the Adverse Event Reporting System.
- Implemented V-Model, an adapted Waterfall Model, for the software development process, adhering to structured and systematic practices.
Software Engineer
Tech Mahindra (formerly Satyam Computers Private Limited), Hyderababd, Telangana, India
GE Medical Portal Re-engineering
GE Medical Services Portal
- Provided leadership in the re-engineering of a medical services portal for the client, GE, focusing on enhancing its user interface and functionalities.
- Leveraged technologies such as Java, Struts, EJB, JSP, and JavaScript to implement the new UI and incorporate additional features into the portal.
Education
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Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
+University: Saurashtra University, Rajkot, Gujarat, India
Duration: 1999 - 2003
Focus: Studied computer science fundamentals, algorithms, and software engineering principles
Certifications & Achievements
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HashiCorp Terraform Associate
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Google Cloud Digital Leader
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
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AWS Solutions Architect Associate
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Cisco Certified Network Associate
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