DHAWAL MER
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Data Engineering
Apollo Global Management
12.2021 - Current
- Apollo Global Management
VICE PRESIDENT / Development Manager
JP Morgan Chase
08.2009 - 12.2021
- Part of Re-Engineering program in Wealth Management, Risk & Financial Technology group leveraging Cloud, Kubernetes & Big Data
- Part of workstation transformation program (also known as Connect) in WM (Wealth Management) leveraging Micro-Services, REST based services and ReactJs
- Part of Wealth Management Investor workstation (IWS), Morgan Asset Projection System leveraging Spring and REST based services along with ExtJs.
DELIVERY MODULE LEAD
EDS and HP Company
08.2007 - 07.2009
- Treasury Application, Development of Portfolio management for Ban Colombia, The single point application for Ban Colombia traders and business analyst for managing different type of investments
- FSA (Field Sales Automation), Web based Sales Order entry system support for project building team for SPRINT NEXTEL, USA.
ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT
Iflex Solution Limited
12.2006 - 08.2007
- Responsible for enhancements/ implementation GOR, London Stock Exchange Adapter / Display for exchange online trading system for client BEAR, STEARNS & CO INC., USA.
SENIOR DEVELOPER
Larsen & Toubro Limited
07.2002 - 12.2006
- Responsible for Design / implementation of eLxSCM / OPC, L&T in-house product develop for gathering real time data for processing across locations with multithreaded approach
Education
Profile Synopsis
- Strategy visionary adept at discerning and aligning potential data strategies to seamlessly cultivate successful partnerships in India.
- Software Architect, large scale and Application Development Specialist with 20+ years of hands-on experience in Software architecture, Designing and Implementation of complex distributed systems.
- Decisive Leader capable of leading, mentoring and managing & aligning multi-site technical teams of different skillsets, ensuring productive utilization and efficient allocations.
- Project Predictability, Agile based project planning for improved business project predictability with Superior quality product;
- Perspicacious Business Insights with adaptive approach and big-picture vision; engaging with multiple clients/stakeholders/business leaders; Recognizing stakeholders and affinity for problem solving.
Significant Accomplishments
❖ Effectively implemented Apollo's global data platform strategy (DELPHI's) in collaboration with global partners
Impact: The India Delphi team quickly expanded from 3 to 19 members in less than 2 years, taking sole ownership of key components in data strategy platform for Snowflake, Databricks, Collibra, Tableau, API's, Data Streams, Open AI and more.
❖ Efficiently deliver daily aggregated PNL with lookthrough path at a cost of less than $210/day, computing over a 2-year period (~180 million records)
Impact: Enabling Risk team to utilizes historical Daily PNL data to assess performance trends & identify potential risks for global events.
❖ Delivered highly scalable Infra agnostic (On-Prim/Cloud) generic data platform for large scale data ingestion, , Processing, reusability and data reconciliations.
Impact: Generic platform helped to significantly improve the quality and reduced the SLA breaches as well cost. Received ‘Engineering Excellence’ circle of excellence award within JP Morgan AWM tech India in June 2020.
❖ Delivered core modules for Investor Connect platform.
Impact: Lead the Position Connect engineering team across regions and in-sourced the work from external vendor.
❖ Top Performance award consecutive 2 years, Larsen & Toubro in 2004-06.
Affiliations
IT Operations: Software Architecture | Enterprise Integration Patterns | Data Management & Warehousing | Microservice Architecture | API Design Architecture | Big Data Architecture | Serverless Architecture | Business Intelligence | Strategy & Roll Out | Data & BI Governance | ETL | ELT | Data Quality | Data Analytics | SQL & NoSQL Database | Agile | Scrum | Waterfall
Leadership: Team Management | Offshore Team Setup | Budget Management | Program & Project Management | Cross Functional Collaboration | Communication | Stakeholder Management
Technical: Snowflake | Azure Synapse | Spark | Hadoop | Hive | HDFS | Delta Lake | Microsoft Azure | AWS | Microservices | Spring Boot | Kubernetes | Data Factory | SQL | NOSQL | RESTful API | Kafka | Azure Event Hub | Autosys | Tidal | SVN | Maven
Languages: Java | Scala | Python | Spring | JavaScript | React JS | SQL
Domain Exposure
- Private Banking (WM)
- Hedge Fund & Private Equity
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Director of Data Engineering
Apollo Global Management
12.2021 - Current
VICE PRESIDENT / Development Manager
JP Morgan Chase
08.2009 - 12.2021
DELIVERY MODULE LEAD
EDS and HP Company
08.2007 - 07.2009
ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT
Iflex Solution Limited
12.2006 - 08.2007
SENIOR DEVELOPER
Larsen & Toubro Limited
07.2002 - 12.2006
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