Responsible for leading squad to modernize reinsurance platform & migrate data & build applications & service in AWS.

• Evaluate current tech stack & design and suggest improvements to achieve modernization objective.

• Closely work with product owners and end users to define MVP and propose architecture & implementation details.

• Collaborate with senior architects & professionals to drive complex engineering solutions & advance technical excellence.

• Minimize deviation from MVP, simplify architecture & solution designs and lead team to focus on delivery timeline.

• Project Highlights:

o Performed in-depth analysis on business epics & documented the current state and new landscape for implementation.

o Collaborated with product owners and several business teams ensuring modernization design address current & desired use cases.

o Designed & architected end to architecture on the epic with details on data flow, UI, error handling & logging.

o Defined sequence & details of technical user stories for implementation.

o Did quick on-the-go training to handle blocker UAT issues involving React & Java Spring boot

on existing applications.

Responsible for leading & delivering technical implementations of digital tools & experiences for New York Life Agent & Clients.

• Design swaggers for RESTful APIs defining seamless data exchange details between systems & provide postman collections to test execute APIs.

• Make decision on integration strategies (webhook, APIs, orchestration) & security options based on requirements & collaborate across teams to drive implementation.

• Evaluate vendor APIs & qualify applicability against requirements, identify & define customized API requirements as needed & work closely with vendors to get it built & delivered.

• Collaborate with product owners & managers to perform feature analysis, discuss trade-offs, recommend feasibility options/prototypes and influence scope.

• Team-up with functional dev teams, business analysts, QA & DevOps to drive development & delivery of functional requirements.

Project Highlights:

o Engineered & launched first serverless cloud app using API Gateway, Lambda, DDB, S3 & CloudFront with backend in python & Nodejs and React for frontend.

o Took on DevOps engineer role for the group & established standardized automated deployment process all the way into production, by building Terraform scripts & developing CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, GIT & IaaC.

o Designed & built first highly scalable 3-way communication solution using Twilio APIs, providing real time data insights into sales engagement activities to business & achieving state specific do-not-call compliance requirement via vendor integration.

o Designed a notification orchestrating framework using SalesForce Platform events & MuleSoft, enabling distribution of time critical alerts allowing in-time action from Agents driving quicker sales processing.

Responsible for leading team of developers to modernize tools used for training & development by New York Life Agents.

• Collaborate with product owners, crave out modernization scope & strategize approach to deliver key features to accelerate agent development possibilities.

• Collaborate with procurement & participate in selection process of a new agent development vendor tool.

• Project Highlights:

o Developed process to capture & deliver training roster attendance in real time using SAP APIs, enabling mentors to have visibility into mentees training sessions & identify development opportunities.

o Teamed-up with leads from integrating systems & drafted technical checklist with weighted scoring model, creating foundational technical evaluation model.

Responsible for building & delivering software components for New York Life’s new core CRM platform (SalesForce).

• Support modernization of core CRM platform by re-factoring critical legacy systems, building software components & integrations enabling real-time data exchange with SalesForce.

• Manage & deliver on-going demand of feature delivery on legacy systems while building efficient components to support modernization efforts.

Project Highlights:

• Re-factored critical monolithic legacy systems, designed & developed microservices into logical processing units using technologies like .NET, REST web services, IIB, Twilio & MuleSoft

• Collaborated with release management group to minimized downtime by managing SDLC process via incremental release of modernized components & decommissioning of obsolete components.