Ajay Sodhi

As a Senior IT Project Manager with 18 years of experience, I enable organizations in delivering enterprise-grade, secure, and scalable platforms across the BFSI, NBFC, Telecom, E-Invoicing, IoT, and AI domains. My focus is always on connecting technology to business outcomes—from roadmap to execution, from proof of concept to production.

🔹 Leadership & Delivery Highlights

• Delivered "Jumpp", an AI-powered finance super app projected to serve 2+ lakh users by 2025, from concept to go-live in 1.5 years.
• Achieved 30% improvement in team productivity and system performance by reengineering delivery processes.
• Led global Agile teams of 25+ professionals; hired & mentored 13 engineers (50% of core team), resulting in 20% internal promotions.
• Delivered ClubOS, a fitness SaaS platform used by 1,900+ facilities across 3,000+ locations in North America, Canada, and India.
• Reduced system response times by 30%, strengthened reliability, and introduced internal upskilling challenges to boost delivery confidence.

🔹 Strategic Stakeholder & Vendor Engagement

• Worked closely with CXOs and business heads to define IT roadmaps, delivery timelines, feature costs, and vendor strategies.
• Conducted DAR evaluations, led vendor negotiations, and ensured technology alignment with business goals.

🔹 Financial Ownership & Cost Savings

• Managed budgets in crores; delivered multiple Crores of annual savings by building in-house capability and eliminating vendor dependency.
• Optimized AWS usage and infrastructure costs, contributing significantly to O&M efficiency.

🔹 Compliance & Global Delivery

• Delivered projects under PCI DSS, ISO 27001, AppSec, and SAR audit frameworks.
• Led cross-border compliance implementations for PEPPOL across Europe, Australia, and Singapore.
• Collaborated with stakeholders from the U.S., Canada, Finland, Europe, and India.

If you're looking for a strategic, results-driven project leader with a hands-on development experience to own delivery and drive outcomes — I'm open to new challenges where technology and business transformation intersect.

Top Skills

• IT Project Management
• Agile & Scrum Leadership
• CXO Stakeholder Engagement
• Budget Ownership
• Vendor Negotiation
• Cost Optimization
• Global Delivery
• DAR Evaluation
• Team Building & Mentoring
• Digital Transformation
• BFSI & NBFC Solutions
• Cloud-Native Architecture
• E-Invoicing
• PEPPOL Compliance
• PCI DSS
• ISO 27001
• SAR Audits
• AWS
• Java Spring Boot
• Enterprise Software
• Microservices
• SaaS Platforms

Senior Technical Architect and Project Leader with 18 years of experience architecting cloud-native, secure, and scalable enterprise solutions in BFSI, NBFC, Investment, Telco, E-Invoicing, and AI domains. Proven track record in high-performance backend design, microservice architecture, cost optimization, and mentoring cross-functional teams (25+ professionals). Delivered impactful digital platforms like Jumpp, ClubOS, and PEPPOL.

Expert in Java, Spring Boot, AWS, team scaling, and stakeholder management across global markets.

SKILLS

Technical: Java (7 to 17), Spring Boot Microservices, Solution Designing, Microservices Design, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Sonar, Maven, Oracle DB, MySQL, DevOps (Jenkins, Git, CI/CD), Splunk, IntelliJ Idea, AI, LLM, Chatbot.

AWS-Cloud: AWS Architecture - EC2, RDS, CloudFormation, CloudWatch Alarms, S3, EFS, KMS, Lambda, Secrets Manager, API Gateway, Load Balancers, SQS, SNS, AuroraDB, DynamoDB, IAM.

Functional: Scrum & Agile Leadership, PMP Practitioner, Vendor & Stakeholder Management, Team Mentoring & Upskilling.

Compliance: PCI DSS, AppSec, and ISO 27001 Compliance.

I did a full-time MCA in 2007 from SDDIET Campus, Kurukshetra University, with 70% grades, and a BCA in 2004 from DAV College, Ambala City, under Kurukshetra University with 60% grades. I have cleared IELTS and PTE and got an overall score of 80. I am a great listener and a brilliant communicator.