Principal Engineer & Engineering Leader with 18+ years of experience architecting and scaling distributed technology solutions/products for global enterprises and financial institutions.
Experience
2022 — Now
2022 — Now
New York, NY
1. Architected and led the delivery of a next-generation portfolio management platform, enabling significant improvements in operational efficiency through modern distributed and cloud-native design.
2. Designed a scalable multi-tenant architecture, accelerating onboarding of new financial products while ensuring strong isolation, governance, and regulatory compliance.
3. Led the development of an enterprise workflow orchestration framework, improving automation, system resiliency, and reducing dependency on third-party platforms.
4. Drove engineering standardization and platform reuse by building foundational services and shared infrastructure components that accelerated delivery across multiple teams.
5. Defined infrastructure and disaster recovery strategy, ensuring systems met stringent enterprise RTO/RPO expectations and aligned with firm-wide reliability standards.
2021 — 2022
• Architected scalable, cloud-native solutions across diverse industries, addressing complex challenges such as peak load handling in ticket booking systems, media streaming optimizations, and customized application scaling for data lakes and analytics platforms, ensuring resiliency and performance at scale.
• Led strategic initiatives to migrate and containerize on-premise applications, utilizing AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Elastic Container Service (ECS), Fargate, and EC2 clusters, driving scalability, operational reliability, and resource optimization across multiple platforms.
• Designed and implemented scalable, high-throughput data pipelines in AWS, leveraging Kinesis Data Streams, Firehose, AWS Glue, Step Functions, and AWS Lambda to process large volumes of IoT data, ensuring low-latency data handling and seamless integration across distributed systems.
• Guided clients in adopting pre-trained ML AWS services like AWS Rekognition and Transcribe, enabling real-time object identification, video transcription, and speech-to-text analysis, creating innovative solutions.
• Developed a cost optimization tool to streamline proposal response time by 70%, automating cost comparison across cloud providers using Python, ReactJS, Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, CloudFront, OpenSearch, and RDS, and delivering automated recommendations based on past submissions.
• Led workshops on AWS storage and compute services (S3, EFS, DynamoDB, Aurora RDS, ElasticCache), serverless compute models, and advanced data pipeline implementations, empowering clients to scale efficiently, reduce operational overhead, and optimize cost-performance.
2017 — 2021
2017 — 2021
• Managed project execution and led cross-functional teams, focusing on strategic planning, sprint execution, and aligning technical initiatives with business objectives. Facilitated continuous improvement through regular feedback loops, ensuring team performance and fostering an environment of learning and growth.
• Designed and implemented scalable systems to compute portfolio performance and attribution analysis at enterprise scale, handling large volumes of data using Java, Python, ReactJS, AWS, PostgreSQL, Docker, and Jenkins CI/CD. Leveraged cloud-native technologies and distributed architectures to ensure high availability and reliability.
• Revamped the Performance Attribution system, driving an 80% performance improvement and enabling real-time analysis for up to 10 years of historical data. Designed fault-tolerant storage solutions with memory-mapped files and disk-based replication, enhancing resilience and operational continuity.
• Optimized system performance and reduced memory consumption by applying memory-efficient data structures and concurrency techniques.
• Led the migration of on-premise applications to AWS, ensuring minimal downtime by establishing best practices and standards for cloud adoption.
• Tackled technical debt by driving improvements in unit test coverage (90%), establishing robust health-check metrics, implementing quality gates, and streamlining legacy application CI/CD pipelines, resulting in better code quality, faster releases, and improved system reliability.
• Conducted workshops and mentoring sessions for engineering teams on cloud architecture, performance optimization, and advanced software engineering practices, driving team collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Established migration guidelines for transitioning applications from on-premises data centers to AWS Cloud, focusing on cost-efficiency and operational scalability.
• Mentor engineering teams, lead hiring initiatives and conduct knowledge sharing sessions.
2014 — 2017
2014 — 2017
• Worked as Tech Lead and led a team to create solutions in the area of Asset Management.
• Conducted code reviews and ensured quality standards are maintained in deliverables
• Designed and developed new features using open source technologies and AWS services
2011 — 2014
Worked as Software Designer and developed products in the area of Liquidity Management in Corporate Banking.
Education
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University