Vice President of Technology at Innoviti Technologies (2024-09 – Present)
- Define and own enterprise architecture strategy across business, application, data, and technical dimensions for a regulated financial services platform, translating business vision into coherent target architectures and transition plans
- Serve as lead architect on cross-domain transformation programs spanning payments, lending, settlement, risk, and compliance, providing guidance across the entire solution lifecycle
- Drive architectural excellence through reuse, standardisation, simplification, and sustainability — consolidating duplicative services and rationalising the application landscape
- Chair Design Authority and architecture review forums, challenging design decisions constructively to safeguard architectural integrity, ensure regulatory adherence, and secure measurable business value
- Lead AI/GenAI integration strategy — agentic automation, RAG pipelines over RBI/PCI-DSS/NPCI policy corpora, and intelligent operations workflows for reconciliation, disputes, and compliance knowledge retrieval
- Shape cloud/platform and data architecture roadmaps, including event-driven microservices, HSM-backed key management, and real-time risk scoring pipelines
- Build influential relationships with senior stakeholders — product, risk, compliance, and engineering leaders — communicating complex architectural concepts with clarity and data-driven recommendations
- Foster cross-domain collaboration and a unified "one architecture" mindset across matrixed delivery teams
Associate Vice President - Technology at Innoviti Technologies (2022-10 – 2024-10)
- Led solution architecture and delivery for retail and merchant-facing fintech product lines, aligning application, data, and integration architectures across squads
- Defined target architectures for transaction, customer, and settlement workflows, balancing long-term architectural vision with pragmatic delivery constraints
- Mentored architects and engineers, chaired design reviews, and used analytics-driven insights to guide platform investment decisions
Director of Engineering at Paperflite (2022-04 – 2022-11)
- Led an engineering team delivering SaaS platform capabilities for high-volume usage patterns and customer-facing workflows
- Improved scalability, operational efficiency, and production reliability through architecture and platform upgrades
- Strengthened data resiliency and recovery controls to protect business-critical information flows
AVP - Technology & Innovation at Standard Chartered Bank (2021-02 – 2022-04)
- Architected Spring Boot microservices on IBM OpenShift for credit, risk, and corporate management domains within a global, matrixed banking organisation
- Contributed to enterprise Design Authority and governance forums, aligning solutions with bank-wide architecture standards, reference patterns, and regulatory requirements
- Drove resiliency and data-recovery initiatives for critical financial systems, collaborating with senior stakeholders across technology, risk, and operations
Enterprise Architect at Innoviti Payment Solutions (2020-04 – 2021-02)
- Defined target enterprise architecture across application, data, integration, and technical layers for high-throughput payment platforms
- Produced architecture blueprints, roadmaps, and transition plans for EFT, UPI, EMI, and Bharat QR programs aligned to business strategy
- Established reference architectures and integration standards enabling reliable multi-bank connectivity with HDFC, ICICI, Axis, and YES Bank
- Partnered with senior business and technology stakeholders on design governance, standards adoption, and cross-domain alignment
Engineering Manager at Ola Cabs (2017-02 – 2020-04)
- Led engineers delivering data-heavy platform capabilities for high-volume operational and customer workflows
- Launched a real-time analytics platform with Apache Kafka for transaction and operational monitoring
- Applied ML and NLP techniques to prediction, decisioning, and customer experience optimisation
Solution Integration Lead Engineer at FICO (2013-03 – 2017-02)
- Led solution design and delivery for enterprise decisioning products used by global banks and financial institutions, covering analysis, architecture, implementation, and production support
- Architected Java-based dataflow integrations with Apache Kafka for enterprise decisioning and risk analytics platforms
- Worked within a matrixed, global engineering organisation exposed to senior stakeholders across product, architecture, and delivery
IT Analyst at Tata Consultancy Services (2011-06 – 2013-03)
- Managed full project life-cycles including analysis, design, and development using Java/J2EE, Voice XML, and JavaScript
- Developed web service-based application integration
Senior Software Engineer at Accenture (2008-11 – 2011-06)
- Application development with Peripro and Cisco ICM platforms
- Database integration using JDBC
Assistant Systems Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services (2006-03 – 2008-11)
- VXML-based IVR application development
