Nikit Patel

Senior engineering leader with [10+ years] in Frontend technology across WEB and API delivery across regulated, customer-facing products. Built and led high-performing, distributed teams; owned technical strategy and delivery for web mobile journeys; and modernized stacks towards cloud-native, microservice architectures. Proven record of accelerating time-to-market, improving reliability and security-by-design, and establishing strong ways of working in hybrid Agile environments.

Adept at stakeholder management at Exec level, vendor governance, and shaping capability to deliver outstanding digital touch points at pace.

Senior Manager Software Development - Fidelity International - Frankfurt am main, DE

(2024-04 - 2026-06)

• Lead two engineering teams delivering Fidelity's End Investor digital platforms (Wealth Expert and Personal Investing), supporting €40bn in assets and serving over 500k German customers.
• Own end-to-end software delivery, improving delivery predictability by 25% through structured planning, technical leadership, and enhanced collaboration with Product Managers and Designers.
• Delivered the global digital account-opening application, enabling 10,000+ new customer on boardings in year one and increasing conversion rates by 18%.
• Introduced optimized development workflows, reducing PR review cycle time by 40% and accelerating overall engineering throughput.
• Redesigned CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment time from 45 minutes to 9 minutes (80% improvement) and increasing deployment frequency by 3×.
• Implemented a robust on-call and incident management model, reducing MTTR by 30% while partnering with Product to align strategic roadmaps and improve stakeholder satisfaction by 20%.
• Built and scaled a new engineering team of five developers in Germany, reducing hiring time by 35% and increasing team delivery capacity by 40%.
• Conduct regular 1:1s and structured performance coaching, improving team engagement scores by 15% and reducing defect leakage by 22%.
• Created and executed detailed epic-level plans, achieving 95% on-time delivery across major initiatives and reducing cross-team blockers by 30%.

Manager - Web Portals - akf bank GmbH - Wuppertal, DE

(2023-08 - 2024-04)

• Led a team of 5 full stack developers that implemented the online post-box feature for our online banking applications which resulted in saving the cost of 4M€ per year.
• Direct responsible individual for enhancing the Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline using GitHub Actions, end-to-end (e2e) using cypress, integration, and component testing using Jest for the frontend code base in the central credit platform.
• Improved application performance by 25% by optimizing LCP and FID metrics.
• Collaborated closely with the Design team to drive technical decision-making efforts.
• Collaborated closely with the BA and product manager to align product development with precise user requirements, facilitating the delivery of highly valuable solutions.
• Skills used - Web vitals, lighthouse reports, React, TailwindCSS and GraphQL.

Senior Frontend developer - akf bank GmbH - Wuppertal, DE

(2020-03 - 2023-07)

• Spearheaded the development and maintenance of the front end for the cost-allocation tool and sl-dashboard, leveraging React and material UI to create seamless user experiences.
• Implemented responsive design using HTML, CSS, and Sass that led to an increase in 15% user engagement measured through A/B testing.
• Worked on cross-browser compatibility resulting in seamless user experience across all browsers for different screen sizes.
• Actively mentored and coached junior developers.

Senior Fullstack developer - Qlaym GmbH - Düsseldorf, DE

(2019-01 - 2020-02)

• Orchestrated the successful migration of legacy Angular code, resulting in enhanced performance and streamlined processes.
• Established and implemented coding standards like GitHub Actions, pre-commit hooks, guidelines, and efficient workflows for seamless project execution.
• Worked with platform team to containerize application using Docker and added CI/CD pipelines.
• Developed and deployed API micro-services in Node.js and FeatherJS, contributing to the scalability and functionality of the applications.
• Authored mission-critical components, optimizing usability and elevating the overall user experience.

Fullstack developer - Qlaym GmbH - Düsseldorf, DE

(2016-04 - 2018-12)

• Built interactive dashboards with key indicators from client processes using highcharts using MEAN Stack.
• Boosted code coverage by more than 95% by writing unit tests in jest and enzyme to save development efforts.

Masters - Computer Science - Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (2014-09 - 2016-05)

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology - Gujarat Technological University (2010-04 - 2014-05)