Hi, I’m
Apurva Aeron
Pune
Summary
Technology leader and architect with 19 years of experience in banking technology, specializing in generative AI, cloud APIs, microservices, and computer networks. Achievements include modernizing trade finance, payments, core banking, and compliance systems. Recent implementation of generative AI solutions improved project delivery timelines significantly. Strong strategic and technical leadership capabilities drive successful project outcomes.
Overview
18
years of professional experience
Work History
FinastraPune
Principal Architect
10.2022 - Current
Job overview
- Entrusted with leading Generative AI initiatives in the Trade Innovation domain, leveraging a strong personal interest to design impactful accelerators. These innovations have enhanced efficiency for internal teams while delivering tangible value to support and business operations across customer-facing functions.
- Devised solutions to extract undocumented business requirements from legacy applications, streamlining the requirement-gathering process. Additionally, I implemented innovative methods to validate technical solutions across diverse application domains.
- Contributing to the strategic planning and phased implementation of a modernisation programme for a market-leading legacy solution in Trade and Supply Chain Finance, aimed at enhancing scalability, resilience, and future-readiness.
- Provided hands-on technical leadership while mentoring four cross-functional teams, maintaining strategic oversight, and attention to detail to drive consistent delivery and quality outcomes.
- Fusion Trade Innovation.
Trade FinancePune
Engineering lead
11.2021 - 10.2022
Job overview
- Assisting a startup in structuring integration layers through APIs and data pipelines, enabling them to seamlessly consume data from diverse corporate ERP systems.
- Facilitating the multi-bank Trade Finance platform to reduce time to market by 30%, enabling rapid realisation and testing of business outcomes.
- Enabled low-code infrastructure setup using OutSystems; rapidly acquired expertise, and achieved Enterprise Technology Specialist certification.
- Trade Information Network - Contract.
BarclaysPune
VP - Solution Architect
08.2015 - 11.2021
Job overview
- Facilitated team of 30 engineers to implement secure cloud-native application.
- Supported compliance with regulatory best practices.
- Contributed to reduction of security incidents compared to legacy application.
- Assisted teams in planning migration journeys after obtaining AWS Solution Architect certification.
- Delivered end-to-end data integrity solution with migration of legacy systems to strategic cloud platforms.
- Managed cross-functional teams to deliver projects on time and budget.
- Contributed to development of compliance assurance platform, first to go live on Barclays internal cloud.
- Participated in launch of apaas v3, recognised by head of BTCI in 2017.
- Aided in leveraging IaaS cloud offering for new application from scratch, recognised by India head of BTCI.
- Identified security vulnerabilities in SSO implementations, preventing regulatory incident.
TRAX UK and MarketAxessNew Delhi
Senior Technical Consultant
01.2013 - 08.2015
Job overview
- Been intrinsic part of building a pricing and trading engine for Fixed Income Instruments Responsible for quality implementation of CI/CD due to my past experience on same.
- As an Individual contributor developed a file ingestion framework in Java 7 that was used to process daily incoming various rating and swift files.
- Worked as an angular developer and implemented an application to search trade details with a dynamic multi component filter on top, the application dealt with very high volume of data hence performed smart lazy loading and pagination.
- Also replaced legacy fixed width messaging format with Rest APIs and designed a UI layer to manage the whole process.
- Using reactive programming involved in designing this solution for pricing system for fixed Income securities (First of its kind) and implementing it from scratch as a proprietary framework.
- IRIS Software
Cashedge Inc.Chennai
Senior Software Engineer
11.2009 - 01.2013
Job overview
- Best learning experience in my career as I worked on a payment gateway product that used to support more than 5000 financial institution across the globe. Learnt product development lifecycle, learnt to work with high quality, tight deadlines and high standards for acceptance.
- Implemented Single-Sign-On (SSO) in Popmoney (Pay by messages/emails).
- Worked as an individual contributor in integration and migration projects to onboard leading financial institutions to the payment gateway.
- Now part of Fiserv
Mahindra SatyamChennai
Software Engineer
11.2007 - 11.2009
Job overview
- Developed Java SOAP web-services independently for complete module, that helped to eliminate need of licensed middleware Tuxedo.
- As an individual contributor worked on build and runtime performance tuning of an enterprise java application.
- IT Service Provider- Client SBI Life
Education
JECRECJodhpur
Bachelor of Engineering from Electronics & Communication
05-2007
IIT Bombay
PG from Design Thinking and User Experience
02-2026
Skills
- Leadership and mentorship
- Problem solving
- Generative AI accelerations
- Cloud infrastructure management
- Banking data governance
- Event-driven trade ecosystems
- Secure API design
- Enterprise design standards
- Angular and React UI development
- Service-oriented architecture
- Presentation skills
- Agile methodologies
Accomplishments
- AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate, 2018-03-01, 2021-03-01
- OutSystems Certified Reactive Web Developer, 2021-11-01, Present
- Rated with grade 'S' (star) (Highest in MahindraSatyam), 2008-04-01, 2009-04-01
- Rated 'Outstanding' (Highest in Cashedge now part of Fiserv), 2010-04-01, 2011-04-01
- Rated 'Highly Effective' (Highest in Fiserv), 2011-04-01, 2012-04-01
- Received Best engineer award 2011 from CEO/CoFounder Cashedge Inc.
- 'You make a difference' title by SSA Infosystems for while working with TRAX UK., 2014-06-01
- Awarded by head of BTCI for showing excellence in cloud and APIs, 2016-04-01, 2017-09-01
- Rated 'Outstanding' (Highest in Barclays) for 3 years in a row, 2017-01-01, 2020-01-01
- Helping in strategising the API and Data Integration layer of a Fintech data platform, 2021-01-01, 2022-01-01
Hobbies and Interests
- Family and Friends
- Play and Listen Music
- Plantation
- Teaching/Training/Mentoring
Websites, Portfolios and Profiles
- linkedin.com/in/apurva-aeron
- live:apurvaaeron
Timeline
Principal Architect
Finastra
10.2022 - Current
Engineering lead
Trade Finance
11.2021 - 10.2022
VP - Solution Architect
Barclays
08.2015 - 11.2021
Senior Technical Consultant
TRAX UK and MarketAxess
01.2013 - 08.2015
Senior Software Engineer
Cashedge Inc.
11.2009 - 01.2013
Software Engineer
Mahindra Satyam
11.2007 - 11.2009
JECREC
Bachelor of Engineering from Electronics & Communication
IIT Bombay
PG from Design Thinking and User Experience