SUMMARY:

• Over 15 years of experience in the Financial Services industry as a Database Developer, Solutions Architect and a Technology Leader.
• Experienced in evaluating and enterprise migration of on - prem infrastructures onto Cloud and Big Data technologies.
• Held progressive roles with leadership and architectural responsibilities within the organization.
• Knowledgeable in database modeling, loading and tuning for relational (Sybase, SQL Server, Aurora) and NoSQL databases such as HBase, DynamoDB.
• Experienced infrastructure and process automation leading to increased uptime and cost savings.
• Knowledge of different types of architectural principles encompassing business, data, application and technology.
• Expertise in leading and mentoring multiple teams, helping them achieve personal and organizational goals.
• Experienced in reverse engineering and cashflow modeling of financial instruments including Gov/ Corporate Bonds, Structured Products such as CMO, ABS, MBS, CMBS, CDO & CLO.
• Experience providing support to both internal and external customers through documentations and presentations.
• Proven ability to interact and negotiate with vendors for acquisition of financial data and models.
• Expertise in delivering projects utilizing programming languages (Perl, Python, C, C++, Java) and database systems (Oracle, Sybase, NoSql).
• Over 10 years of hands-on software development experience utilizing agile principles.
• Deep understanding of Financial Industry markets and trends.
• Certified Scrum Master with several years of experience in various agile people and product enablement roles.
• Possess an entrepreneurial mindset, constantly striving to help my organization succeed through accountability, proactiveness and collaboration, with the end goal of delivering quality products leading to increased customer subscription/retention.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: PERL, C, PL/SQL, Python, Java, C++

Databases: Sybase, Aurora, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, HBase, DynamoDB, MongoDB, MarkLogic

Infrastructure & Tools: AWS, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Spark, Mesos, Kubernetes, ASN.1 Encoding, PKCS, PKI, AWS KMS, X.509, S/MIME, Kerberos, MD5

Schedulers: Autosys, Crontab

Architecture Frameworks: TOGAF, ITIL, BIAN

Build, CI/CD: Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Docker, Git, Subversion, CVS

Collaboration: JIRA, Confluence, Jive, GitHub

Agile Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Director, Technical Specialist

• Promoted to Director, with 40 direct reports consisting of Developers and Architects.
• Led Confidential Digital Transformation initiative to migrate 15 databases of records with over 500TB data, from on-prem to AWS Enterprise Data Platform using cloud native implementation. Resulted in Capex savings of $10M and Opex savings of over $1M.
• Promoted AWS Well-Architected Framework principles to drive cloud adoption and transformation leveraging Identity Federation, EC2, VPC, S3, Lambda, ECS, EMR, Kinesis, Aurora, DynamoDB, etc.
• Implemented continuous process improvement by incorporating SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and Microservices, moving away from monolithic architectures.
• Mandated adoption of DevOps principles across the organization that aligns with the cloud first goal by promoting IaaC (Infrastructure-as-a-Code) practices and agile methodologies incorporating CI/CD.
• Steward of overall Data Governance and management practices for Fixed Income content including policies for data modeling, acquisition, transformation, provenance, quality and compliance.
• Built a talented offshore delivery team and ensured proper training and support was given on an ongoing basis.
• Held various workshops among different groups to share knowledge and collaborate across teams with the common goal of discovery, efficiency and focusing on right problems without reinventing the wheel.
• Facilitated scrum of scrum meetings to enable multiple scrum masters and product owners to interact and collaborate with each other, resolving potential conflicts or dependencies.
• Promoted innovation by encouraging the team to think outside the box and fail often with minimal impact and succeed with big impact.
• Collaborated with technology and business leadership colleagues across the organization to align delivery and ongoing strategy, using agile methodologies.
• Continuously researched new technologies, ran PoCs of using new technologies in order to strategically position ourselves with changing landscape.
• Authored several Technical, Functional and Architectural documents and whitepapers to educate and guide internal and external teams on core concepts.
• Knowledge in EA and service management frameworks such as TOGAF, ITIL and BIAN.
• Ensured SLAs with internal and external customers are met through policies, monitoring, metrics, continuous process improvements, training etc.
• Architect/Model technical solutions for supporting new regulatory requirements such as MIFID II, Solvency II, Basel III, etc.
• Promoted agile/scrum methodologies to enable iterative product development and faster time-to-market while reducing technical debt.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Technical Specialist/Solutions Architect

• Promoted to Senior Technical Specialist/Solutions Architect with broader responsibilities, that included managing a team of 10 Developers.
• Created CloudFormation templates to automate infrastructure deployment (VPCs, EC2 instances, RDS).
• Set up Alarms CloudWatch to alert when there are system issues or billing for a given resource crossed a certain threshold.
• Migrated CMO database of record and related infrastructures from on-prem into AWS. Used serverless architecture (Lambda functions and ECS) to reduce the number of dedicated EC2 instances and SQS to orchestrate and manage incoming feeds. This led to significant reduction in Capex ($1M) and Opex ($250K) costs.
• Acted as a product owner for running PoCs and Scrum Master for delivering multiple projects that was part of the bigger migration project.
• Configured Jenkins and Maven for daily/weekly builds based on environment, using Autosys, PERL and Python.
• Created RESTful APIs to allow services for the front-end interface to retrieve data from core and feed databases.
• Created Docker containers and deployed it in ECS cluster.
• Spearheaded a project to build new infrastructure that had to ingest massive amounts of data into the Data Lake that ran on CDH Hadoop Spark/Spark Streaming to transform and run analytics and ship it to products via Kakfa queues. Used Java and Python as main programming languages.
• Architected archiving strategies for storing infrequently used data and storage for compliance reasons using S3 IA and Glacier.
• Evaluated several big data tools and frameworks such as MapReduce, Avro, Parquet, Impala, Phoenix, ElasticSearch, Kudu, RethinkDB, Postgres-XL, Cockroach DB, etc. to weigh their pros and cons and recommended the new technology stack for our infrastructure.
• Provided data analytics and insights to Content Leadership by loading massive amounts of Mortgage into Hadoop and running analysis using Spark, Python.
• Assisted content team respond to client queries by providing analytics and debugging expertise to identify the issue or educate the client.
• Assisted clients directly with answering technical questions and understanding the product documentation.
• In collaboration with Head of Fixed Income Content, spearheaded a multi-year project focusing on international market support for Securitized Products. This positioned ourselves as a competitor to Bloomberg and eventually increased our revenue by millions of dollars.
• Continuous Delivery integration using Git, Docker Containers, Kubernetes, Chef, Puppet, Maven, Jenkins and Cloud Formation.
• As a scrum master, used agile manifesto to guide the delivery of major infrastructure overhaul project that decoupled central databases technology from customer databases.
• Was chosen to lead an offshore initiative to hire talented full-stack developers in Beijing and train them in the Fixed Income domain.
• Spent 6 months in Beijing to hire, train team of 50 developers and specialists/architects in domain knowledge, leadership and language skills.
• Developed in-house parsing technology to automate Deal entry, reducing manual effort and data entry errors.
• Gained a deeper knowledge on cash-flow modeling techniques by working with Reverse Engineers and modeling several deals on my own. This allowed a deeper insight into their methods of work which in turn allowed me to turn their challenges into opportunities to improve the technology.

Confidential, Saint Paul, MN

Lead Software Engineer

• Created a new ETL framework using PERL to process 50+ feeds, replacing legacy feed that had several performance issues and poor data quality, causing production problems and client complaints. The new process improved the data quality from 90% to 99.9%, eliminated performance issues, so the quality got better and data got faster. This helped sell the CMO/ABS offering to more clients and retain existing clients, generating millions of dollars in new/recurring revenue.
• Led a multi-million-dollar technology overhaul project, upgrading to faster (X86) hardware and latest software (PERL 5.10 & Sybase ASE 15.0). The project required meticulous planning and execution as all clients’ and product backend servers were impacted. Automated software distribution and testing process that saved Operations a lot of time and allowed to focus on building the systems.
• Automated password-less secure logins by generating SSH keys and distributing public keys to hosts. This allowed automated scripts/jobs to launch/connect to other hosts without requiring passwords.
• Automated database schema changes and testing by creating manifest and doing “tieout” comparisons, which saved lot of manual effort and helped push changes quicker.
• Set up cost effective automated archival solution to move less frequently used files to NAS storage using rsync snapshots.
• Automated builds of software that creates latest export tree that can be readily deployed into development environment to facilitate easy testing.
• As part of the offshoring initiative, created and led an offshore production support team whose primary focus was to provide 3rd level development support for all Fixed Income databases of records and related infrastructure. Spent 6 months in Bangalore to hire and train a team of 6 developers and a team leads. This not only led to cost savings but also maintained same quality of service to customers.
• Automated Fixed Income terms and conditions updates by using the new ETL framework, reducing manual data entry by 30%.
• Optimized the database performance by various strategies such as row level locking, normalizing schema, rewriting SQL, etc, depending on the problem and desired outcome.
• Assisted Junior developers in performance tuning of SQL queries and process optimizations.
• Maintained ongoing relationship with data vendors, analysts and clients, with focus on maintaining data quality and timeliness. Acted as a primary escalation contact for any production issues.

Confidential

Associate e-Security Engineer

• Was Hired as a trainee e-Security Engineer. Got promoted to Associate e-Security Engineer in 3 months after I was identified as a high performer and excellent coder in C & Java languages.
• Developed e-security libraries (ASN.1, PKCS #7 and S/MIME), which were components of the product CryptoMagic. The product obtained a National Institute of Standards and Testing (NIST) certification.