Goutam Dalai

Dedicated and results-driven engineering leader with over 19 years of experience in developing cutting-edge solutions for both consumer and enterprise markets. Equipped with a robust technical foundation, great leadership skills, organizational skills, and exceptional communication abilities, all while maintaining a customer-focused mindset. Known for elevating productivity, efficiency and leading high-impact projects and growth.

Senior Engineering Manager - American Express - Sunrise, United States

(2015-11)

• Lead and work with various teams in Amex like Risk Decision Tech, C360, Enterprise Money Movement, Global Risk & Compliance Technology (GRCT) over the years to deliver multiple high impact business solutions by leveraging various open-source technologies.
• Develop micro services using Java, Vert.x, deploy and manage them in big data and enterprise cloud environments.
• Work closely with Product Owners in researching and prototyping new capabilities that improve the overall user experience
• Working experience with micro service frameworks: Spring Boot and reactive frameworks Rx Java, Kotlin with Quarkus & engage in code review and writing from the UI to backend services
• Experience in bootstrapping development teams from scratch and hiring and mentoring talented engineers to build highly productive teams

Lead Engineer - Fidelity Investments - Raleigh, United States

(2015-07 - 2015-11)

• Successfully delivered complex and highly scalable services from conception to launch, in a high-growth environment, exhibiting strong ability to identify and solve ambiguous customer-focused problems
• Self-directed and a high attention to detail with proven ability to juggle multiple, competing priorities simultaneously and deliver in a fast-paced, agile environment
• Build, manage, and develop world-class engineers including hiring recommendations and guide and mentor engineers and project managers within and outside of the team

Technical Lead - Wells Fargo - Charlotte, United States

(2013-11 - 2015-06)

• Led team for implementation of internet banking for WF wholesale technology business needs
• Was responsible for extensive coordination with Development, QA and Global Infrastructure teams.
• Managing various dev and QA phases and performing hands on testing as needed including Regression, Functionality and Pre-Release testing of the Loan IQ products

Technical Lead - Fidelity Investments - Boston, United States

(2012-01 - 2013-11)

• Lead a team of 10 and manage all dev and test activities through all the SDLC life cycle in the compliance space for Fidelity Investments Management Technology (FIMT)
• Good knowledge of Investment Management, Research, Trading and Investment Operations functions
• Create and build customer-focused applications in the most effective manner and launch them into production with a great deal of quality and speed

Software Lead - American Express - Bhubaneshwar, India

(2011-05 - 2012-01)

• Responsible for implementing and executing solutions to provide the AmEx customer the best-in-class user experience
• Build and test sustainable solutions using the available array of technologies
• Work with the tech, business and the production support team in tandem to deliver the new and enhance existing functionalities

Senior Software Engineer - Bank of America - Charlotte, United States

(2007-10 - 2011-04)

• Creating and consuming web services including experience with technologies such as SOAP, WSDL and XML
• Perform web vulnerability scanning using OWASP, SQL Injection, XSS, data validation, denial-of-service, error codes, weak encryption
• Understanding & implementing security related features for the applications

Software Engineer - BNY Mellon - Pittsburg, United States

(2007-05 - 2007-10)

• Involved in all phases of the SDLC life cycle, with timely delivery against aggressive deadlines
• Conduct and mange automated testing covering all server-side and client-side functionality of the product.
• Manage defects, test plan and test lab for various stages of SDLC lifecycle using HP Quality Center

Software Test Engineer - ABN AMRO - Mysore, India

(2005-07 - 2007-04)

• Create and manage test plans, build automated test plans, complete all necessary testing to deliver great quality product
• Contribute in System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Interface Testing and GUI Regression Testing

Bachelor Of Technology - Computer Science - Biju Patnaik University of Technology (2000-07 - 2004-07)

Higher Secondary - BJB College (1997-07 - 1999-07)