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Dhruba Guha

Senior Vice President | Engineering Leader
Bangalore

Summary

Technology leader with 20+ years of experience driving large-scale engineering initiatives across global financial institutions. Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering teams, defining technology strategy, and delivering mission-critical platforms aligned with business outcomes.

Expert in cloud-native architecture, event-driven systems, and API-first platforms, with deep experience in modernizing legacy systems and enabling scalable, resilient distributed systems.

Currently leading engineering initiatives in fintech, owning end-to-end platform strategy, architecture, and execution, while influencing cross-functional stakeholders and business leaders.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Engineering Lead

J P Morgan Chase & Co
09.2021 - Current

Product Name: OpenInvest Duration: Jun24-Till to Date OpenInvest allows financial professionals to customize portfolios based on environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria and provides Impact reporting for these investments. The platform is designed to help clients align their investments with their personal values, such as environmental sustainability or social justice causes.

Responsibilities:

  • Own and drive the technology vision and roadmap for a next-generation fintech platform enabling ESG-aligned Investment portfolios, aligning engineering strategy with business growth objectives.
  • Lead multi-team ownership across distributed global engineering groups, driving end-to-end delivery of high-impact platforms with strong alignment across regions and stakeholders.
  • Drive resource planning, budgeting, and prioritization across critical Initiatives, ensuring optimal allocation and execution against strategic goals.
  • Lead multiple engineering initiatives focused on scalability, resilience, and platform evolution, enabling the platform to support growing business and client demands.
  • Architect and implement event- driven distributed systems, Improving service decoupling and significantly enhancing system responsiveness.

Product Name: CIA (Digital Authentication) Duration: Sep21-Jun24

Digital Auth application, a centralized authentication platform for Chase customers accessing banking services via web, mobile, third-party aggregators, and merchants. Enabled secure identification and authentication of Chase Digital Customers through Chase.com and the Chase mobile app.

Responsibilities:

  • Influence architectural decisions for high-scale platforms supporting millions of users and high-volume transactions.
  • Lead cross-regional engineering delivery (US & India), ensuring alignment, execution excellence, and high-quality outcomes.
  • Drive cloud modernization and cost optimization, reducing infrastructure footprint and improving efficiency.
  • Spearhead API-first transformation, enabling modular architecture and faster feature delivery.
  • Mentor and scale high-performing engineering teams (35+ engineers), fostering strong ownership and growth.

Application Architect

Wells Fargo
04.2020 - 09.2021

WF-Swift is web-based application which act as a gateway between Wells Fargo back office and Swift gateway. This process will parse the FIN/MX messages, validate individual msg format and perform the duplicate check before transferring to SWIFT Gateway.

Responsibilities

  • Aligned application architecture with business goals, ensuring scalable, future-proof solutions.
  • Developed migration strategies to transition from legacy systems to modern architectures with minimal risk.
  • Designed and implemented systems that enhanced user productivity and met evolving needs.
  • Communicated architectural vision clearly to senior leadership and business stakeholders.
  • Mentored teams, promoting innovation and encouraging continuous improvement.

Staff Software Engineer

Visa Inc
05.2018 - 01.2020

Visa Resolve Online (VROL) is a global dispute resolution system developed to facilities different aspects of exception processing between members and Visa.

Responsibilities

  • Led ISO 2025 migration initiative, transitioning BINs to IINs to enable new financial institution onboarding and improve BIN utilization efficiency
  • Enhanced risk management platforms, improving system reliability, performance, and scalability
  • Collaborated with business stakeholders to prioritize high-impact features and deliver critical capabilities
  • Contributed to system design, debugging, and performance optimization for high-scale applications
  • Reviewed code and optimized performance, enhancing system stability and efficiency
  • Collaborated with business stakeholders to prioritize backlog and drive delivery alignment
  • Mentored junior engineers and established test labs, improving quality and accelerating onboarding

Associated Software Engineer

J P Morgan Chase & Co
12.2015 - 05.2018

IBPOnline (International Private Banking Online) website is designed to give easy access to customer portfolio to enhance the relationship between client & JP Morgan advisory team. IBPOnline is the digital platform for Global Wealth Management providing private banking clients of a single view of their invest portfolios across their accounts.

Responsibilities

  • Produced clean, efficient, and dynamic code.
  • Led end-to-end software development, including design, performance analysis, deployment, and support
  • Participated in design and code reviews for quality assurance.

RS Software (India) Ltd

Wipro Technologies
01.2015 - 12.2015

Visa Resolve Online (VROL) is a global dispute resolution system developed to facilities different aspects of exception processing between members and Visa.

Responsibilities

  • Technical Lead for Pre-Arbitration and Pre-Compliance flows, mentoring engineers and establishing test labs to ensure high-quality delivery
  • Investigated system issues and implemented resolutions to reduce downtime and build self-healing capabilities
  • Provided mentoring and technical guidance to junior team members

Application Product Engineer

DELL International Service (India) Pvt Ltd
10.2008 - 12.2010

AlertFind is the most powerful crisis communication and collaboration tool available to manage through crisis events. During a crisis or disaster, normal lines of communication may fail when we need them most.

Responsibilities

  • Developed the code according to the specification provided.
  • Test Case preparation and execution
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues and enhance system reliability during critical incidents

Jr Software Engineer

Societe Generale Global Solution Centre
04.2006 - 09.2008

MARKET provides fully automated capital market back-office operations for the ranch in terms of foreign exchange, lending & borrowing, and Risk Swapping.

Responsibilities

  • Developed the code according to the specification provided.
  • Worked on Risk swapping and the foreign-exchange module
  • Worked in multilingualism for the product.

Education

Master in Computer Application -

NIT Durgapur

Skills

Java (JDK17)

Spring Boot (324)

Python

Micro Service

Data Structure

AWS

Restful Web Service

GraphQL

Oracle

Postgresql

MySQL

MongoDB

Cassandra

Core Leadership Capabilities


  • Engineering Strategy & Roadmap Ownership – Driving long-term platform vision aligned with business outcomes
  • Multi-Team Leadership & Global Delivery (US/India) – Leading distributed teams with end-to-end ownership and execution excellence
  • Platform Modernization & Cloud Transformation – Migrating legacy systems to scalable, cloud-native architectures
  • Cost Optimization & Performance Engineering – Improving efficiency, reducing latency, and optimizing infrastructure spend
  • Scalable Distributed Systems & Architecture – Designing high-availability, low-latency platforms at scale
  • Data, API & AI/LLM Platform Enablement – Building intelligent, data-driven platforms and API ecosystems
  • Stakeholder & Executive Communication – Influencing senior leadership and aligning technology with business priorities
  • Delivery Excellence & Risk Management – Ensuring predictable delivery, governance, and operational stability
  • Strategic Planning & Execution – Translating vision into actionable roadmaps and measurable outcomes
  • Organizational Leadership & Team Building – Developing high-performing teams, mentoring leaders, and driving culture
  • Performance Management & Talent Development – Leading reviews, coaching, and succession planning
  • Requirements Strategy & Business Alignment – Converting complex business needs into scalable technical solutions
  • Emerging Technology & Innovation Leadership – Driving adoption of modern technologies including AI/LLM and cloud
  • Critical Thinking & Decision Making – Solving complex problems with data-driven and pragmatic approaches

Accomplishments

Co-inventor of Patent No. 20220319283, titled “real-time automated teller machine (ATM) fraud detection and prevention”.

Publication date: October 6, 2022

Certification

AWS Certified Developer Associate from Jan 2023

Awards

Spot Award Q1 2021, Wells Fargo, Security Champion Award 2017, JPMC

Interests

puzzle solving, learning new technologies, hashing algorithms

Timeline

Sr. Engineering Lead

J P Morgan Chase & Co
09.2021 - Current

Application Architect

Wells Fargo
04.2020 - 09.2021

Staff Software Engineer

Visa Inc
05.2018 - 01.2020

Associated Software Engineer

J P Morgan Chase & Co
12.2015 - 05.2018

RS Software (India) Ltd

Wipro Technologies
01.2015 - 12.2015

Application Product Engineer

DELL International Service (India) Pvt Ltd
10.2008 - 12.2010

Jr Software Engineer

Societe Generale Global Solution Centre
04.2006 - 09.2008

Master in Computer Application -

NIT Durgapur
Dhruba GuhaSenior Vice President | Engineering Leader