I am a hands on senior technology executive/cto with passion to deliver business and operational value by building SaaS & data engineering platforms in a secure and compliant environment and by building high performing teams. Turnaround executive worked with Product, Sales, Data, Analytics and Finance teams brought strategic initiatives back on track, consolidated and sunset platforms, increased customer base, reduced time to delivery and costs. I take pride in the work we do, so I drive and focus on accountability and speed – “Culture eats strategy for breakfast – Peter Drucker”
• Product and Fintech expert in marketing, risk, analytics, compliance across credit, mortgage and capital markets, auto, commercial and fraud verticals
• Expert software developer with strong foundation as Individual contributor and organically moved up, built small teams and grew them to a size of 200. Led org up to 800 people supporting $1.2billion in US revenue and a budget of $100mm+.
• Delivered new products worth $45mm+ in startup mode in Equifax and worked at 2 startups prior.
As a engineering leader and chief technologist, my work extends beyond business cases, capex/opex discussions, and power point presentations and spent enough time to impart the vision, work with the team on the design sessions, white boarding ideas, troubleshooting with the teams and be in a continuous learning mode – “Strategy is a commodity and execution is an art – Peter Drucker”
• Expertise in building online, big data & analytics, infrastructure, cloud, secure and compliant systems leveraging multi-tier, lambda, and micro service architectures
• Led USIS teams to multi-peta byte scale (5PB+) big data journey for both online and offline by introducing and migrating workload from Mainframe to Greenplum, Hadoop, Couchbase, Cassandra and ELK stack.
• Transformation leader, brought strategic initiatives on track, led successful Mainframe migrations, built strategic business cases for funding, and asked by Global CIO to lead critical global initiative in 2016
Passionate about ensuring right processes are is in place with right collaboration tools to define and measure the progress consistently with fewer meetings and attachments – “What gets measured gets improved”
Experience
- SVP Technology – Data and Analytics – Fiserv
- Chief Technology Officer – TruckerCloud
- Chief Technology Officer – Fireboltai.com
- Transformation Consultant – Procella Processing Platform
- Chief Technology Officer & Senior Partner – Rule 1 Ventures
- SVP – USIS Engineering Leader – Equifax
- SPV – Global Data Exchange and Insights Leader – Equifax
- Vice President Technology (Data Platforms) – Equifax
- IT Consultant for CDC – Consultant (CDC)
- Software Engineer @ Revenue Technology – Lead (Revenue Tech)
- Consultant @Netcertainty – J2EE Consultant (Netcertainty)
- Consultant – Tata Consultancy Services
Education
- Emory University – Goizueta Business School – Master of Business Administration (MBA), Strategy and Leadership
- Sun Certified Java Architect – Scored 100%
- Sun Certified Java Developer and Programmer
- Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur – M.Tech, Industrial Engineering and Management
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