Amit Sharma
Head Of Technology- MicroFinance
Bengaluru
Summary
Head of Technology with 20 + Years of experience in Information Technology industry on building end to end Software Systems.
Technology Skills :
MicroServices, Spring boot/Cloud/Security/Jpa/Orm/Aop,Aspect-J,Mule-ESB,Drools,Lucene,Elastic Search,bootstrap and JavaScript(Ember/React js),Kafka, Private Cloud,Neo4j, AWS.
Organization Skills :
Strengths include strong customer interface and problem-solving skills, requirement analysis, designing and programming. Excellent skills with short learning curve when faced with new challenges and new environments. Good team player with excellent Organizational, Analytical, Project management and Communication skills.
Presently working in Kotak Mahindra Bank Bangalore as a Head od Technology Head for Micro Finance Lending.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Head of Information Technology- Micro Finance
Kotak Mahindra Bank
Bengaluru
08.2023 - Current
- Leading Technology for Micro Finance Lending with a Book of 10K Crores, CAGR of 30%.
- Transitioned to A cloud native Micro Services Based State of Art architecture.
- Oversaw IT department operations and training.
- Owning Audit and Compliance for adhering to RBI Regulations.
- Managed network and system performance, conducting troubleshooting, security patching, and maintenance.
- Coordinated IT operations activities to deliver smooth flow of daily business needs.
- Demonstrated familiarity with latest hardware, software and networking technology.
- Interacted and negotiated with vendors, outsourcers and contractors to secure products and services.
- Led technology selection and rollout, focusing on organizational planning and supplier service-level agreements.
- Understood key product management roadmap objectives and requirements to develop product technology strategy.
- Communicated with executive team and CEO to maximize development efficiencies and resolve technology issues.
- Collaborated with other departments to help meet IT needs and properly integrate and secure systems.
Vice President - Global Engineering Lead
Goldman Sachs
Bangalore
11.2021 - 08.2023
Global Engineering Lead for the Lending Business. Leading a team of 50+ Software Engineer's globally for lending to SME's. Its an Embedded finance application built on API's. Responsibilities Including paving the path for the Product, Talking to All Stakeholders (Product/Sales/Engineering/Operations). Additional India Location Head for Lending for a team for 100+ Engineers
All application infra is built on AWS ECS/Fargate/Lambdas/Dynamo DB/Mongo DB. Programming Languages Java/Spring/Kafka/Microservices.
Application Owner/Technical Leader
Chase
07.2012 - 11.2021
- July’12 to Nov' 21 Working as Dev Lead /Architect in JP-Morgan.
- Application Owner/Technology Lead for couple of applications for Commercial Banking.
- All Applications built on Microservices Design (Spring Boot/Eureka/Zuul/Kafka/AOP/JPA/React js/MySql/Java)
- Lead for Driving Application Modernization Design (Observability,Orchestration,Testing, Cloud Native,Micro Front Ends)
- Earlier was Indian Lead For the Entitlements Application for Payment Channels in Treasury and Global Lead for Re-Architecture of the Application.
Project Lead
CSC
12.2009 - 07.2012
- In, Bangalore,Singapore for VISA.
Developer Analyst
Lead Technology
Hewitt
04.2008 - 11.2009
Lead Engineering
Globallogic Inc
Noida
11.2005 - 04.2008
Senior Software Engineer
IBM Gurgaon
05.2004 - 11.2005
Progrmmer
Web3M India Ltd
Hyderbad
08.2002 - 11.2003
Education
B.E - Electronics
07.1997 - 08.2001
GPA: 74.53
APGDCA( Advance Post Graduate Diploma - Computer Application
01.2002 - 07.2002
GPA: 73.47
Skills
Languages Java 12 – 11,Python 35
undefinedAccomplishments
- Selected into the Elite Club of Expert Engineers in JP Morgan.
- Won two Innovation Awards Globally. Including one which is Custom Junit Framework and filed a Patent(In-Progress) also for same.
- Leading Expert Engineer Community for Commercial Bank India.
- Pioneered AWS Eks Migration using Aurora DB for Commercial Banking.
- Part of High Craft Engineering Group Globally for Commercial Banking.
Timeline
Head of Information Technology- Micro Finance - Kotak Mahindra Bank
08.2023 - Current
Vice President - Global Engineering Lead - Goldman Sachs
11.2021 - 08.2023
Application Owner/Technical Leader - Chase
07.2012 - 11.2021
Project Lead - CSC
12.2009 - 07.2012
Developer Analyst - Lead Technology
04.2008 - 11.2009
Lead Engineering - Globallogic Inc
11.2005 - 04.2008
Senior Software Engineer - IBM Gurgaon
05.2004 - 11.2005
Progrmmer - Web3M India Ltd
08.2002 - 11.2003
DAC ( Center For Development of Advance Computing) - APGDCA( Advance Post Graduate Diploma, Computer
Application
01.2002 - 07.2002
S.R.T.M.UniverSity - B.E, Electronics
07.1997 - 08.2001
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