Husain Kachwala
Mumbai
Summary
Strategic Data and Technology Leader with over 18 years in enterprise architecture, cloud data platforms, and system integration. As Deputy Vice President, directs technology initiatives for enterprise data platforms and critical applications. Architected a production data platform on Snowflake and Databricks, leading application development for customer onboarding and operational systems. Delivered significant cost savings through data optimisation and enhanced integration solutions.
Overview
6
6
Languages
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Deputy Vice President
KOTAK SECURITIES
09.2023 - Current
- Enterprise technology leadership with end-to-end ownership across enterprise data platforms, business-critical applications, application architecture, system integration and technology transformation.
- Enterprise Data Platform & Architecture
- Conceptualised, architected and lead the development of an enterprise-wide data platform built on Snowflake and Databricks, from solution architecture and framework design through implementation and production rollout.
- Own platform architecture and technical direction while leading delivery across multiple business domains and coordinating a team of approximately 11–20 professionals.
- Designed and developed a metadata-driven ingestion and pipeline management framework, facilitating automated source onboarding, configuration, provisioning, execution, monitoring and lifecycle management.
- Enabled integration across 20+ source systems and 300+ tables, streamlining data access and improving operational efficiency across multiple platforms.
- Implemented full and incremental ingestion, automated CDC, schema drift detection and handling, API-driven orchestration, scheduled execution, retry mechanisms, failure-based auto-suspension and notification controls.
- Developed a Python/Streamlit-based management application to simplify pipeline onboarding, configuration and operational administration.
- Established operational monitoring, reconciliation dashboards and automated EOD reporting based on pipeline and task-execution metrics.
- Integrated Snowflake and Databricks capabilities into the enterprise data architecture to support scalable data processing and downstream data requirements.
- Enterprise Application Development & Ownership
- Hold end-to-end ownership across development, production support, enhancement and continuous improvement of business-critical internal applications, including KC3, PATS, LD Staging and DP.
- Lead application development and enhancements for KC3, Kotak's customer account-opening and onboarding system, supporting critical customer onboarding workflows.
- Lead application development and enhancements across PATS.
- Manage the full application lifecycle for DP, spanning development, architecture, integration, production support and ongoing enhancements.
- Provide technical ownership across application architecture, solution design, development, production operations and continuous improvement.
- Enterprise Integration & Transaction Architecture
- Architected the LD Staging environment as an end-to-end vendor integration platform, orchestrating multiple pipelines across upstream systems to consolidate, stage and deliver data to the LD vendor system.
- Designed the integration environment to coordinate multiple source systems, data dependencies and downstream vendor delivery requirements.
- Led development of strategic APIs supporting customer Standing Instruction (SI) margin-pull transactions.
- Enabled APIs to evaluate customer-specific business rules, eligibility conditions and data dependencies across multiple internal systems before determining and triggering applicable margin-pull transactions.
- Led integration of cross-system checks and conditional business logic into API-driven transaction workflows supporting critical financial operations.
- Technology Optimisation & Business Impact
- Designed a proprietary SQL Server CDC framework that avoided the need for a dedicated continuously running connector runtime for relevant workloads, delivering approximately USD 1,500 in measured monthly savings (USD 18,000 annualised).
- Designed an API-driven Mixpanel ingestion approach that avoided a separate pipeline setup at the Mixpanel end, delivering approximately USD 50,000 in annual savings.
- Optimised Snowflake architecture and consumption, achieving a measured 10% reduction in monthly Snowflake consumption against the previous baseline.
- Developed Snowflake consumption and cost-intelligence dashboards to improve visibility into credit consumption, workload utilisation, compute efficiency and optimisation opportunities.
- Received recognition from Snowflake's technical team for architectural sophistication and operational maturity, underscoring the platform's engineering excellence.
- Technology Leadership
- Combine strategic technology ownership with hands-on engineering, remaining directly involved in architecture, framework development, application development and complex technical problem-solving.
- Lead initiatives across the complete technology lifecycle, from business requirements and solution architecture to development, implementation, production rollout, support and continuous improvement.
Vice President
INSTITUTIONAL SHAREHOLDER SERVICES (ISS)
08.2011 - 09.2023
- Led technology delivery and application initiatives across global, cross-functional teams, with responsibility for enterprise systems, database architecture and production support.
- Enhanced RecoverMax and CABO platforms through metadata-driven database architecture and streamlined application update cycles.
- Mentored and supported the development of 15+ professionals across technology delivery and application support.
Senior Software Developer
SYNTTEL INDIA
09.2008 - 07.2011
- Developed enterprise applications, including Rates Selection System for American Express, and managed system migrations, disaster recovery, and SQL/ETL optimisation.
- Developed and implemented software solutions to meet client requirements, enhancing system functionality and user satisfaction.
- Developed custom APIs, enabling seamless integration with third-party services and enhancing system interoperability.
- Mentored junior developers, providing guidance on best practices in coding and system design to foster team development.
Business Partner
2 FUTURISTIC COMMUNICATIONS
05.2007 - 04.2008
- Co-founded and developed IT services business to support small and medium-sized enterprises.
- Controlled expenses and allocated financial resources to reach budget goals.
- Monitored sales performance against monthly targets, improving processes to meet annual financial forecasting goals.
- Facilitated cross-functional team collaboration to achieve project objectives efficiently.
Education
Master of Science (M.Sc.) - Computer Science
University of Mumbai
Mumbai01-2008
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Computer Science
University of Mumbai
Mumbai, MH01-2006
Skills
- Data engineering
- Cloud data platforms
- Snowflake and Databricks
- Application development
- Operations orchestration
- Enterprise architecture
- CDC and data orchestration
- Data integration
- Cloud platforms
- Technology modernization
- Production operations
- Cloud cost optimization
- Technical team leadership
- Operations orchestration
- Operations orchestration
- Operations orchestration
- Operations orchestration
SELECTED ENTERPRISE IMPACT
- USD 18,000 annualised savings through a proprietary SQL Server CDC framework that avoided a dedicated continuously running connector runtime for relevant workloads.
- USD 50,000 annual savings through an API-driven Mixpanel ingestion approach that avoided a separate pipeline setup at Mixpanel's end.
- 10% reduction in monthly Snowflake consumption against the previous baseline through architecture and consumption optimisation.
- Enterprise data platform integrating 20+ systems, 10+ source categories and 300+ tables across multiple business domains.
SELECTED INITIATIVES
- Enterprise data platform: Conceptualised and architected an enterprise data platform and reusable ingestion framework for multiple business domains.
- TransPress: UAE-focused shipping and logistics application initiative involving vessel tracking and rate calculation capabilities.
- InventoCon: Inventory, POS and business management platform initiative.
- GoldTrac: Jewellery manufacturing and gold-loss tracking / pricing platform initiative.
CAREER PREFERENCES
- Target roles: Director, Head of Data Platforms, Head of Enterprise Data, Director of Data Engineering, Director of Technology Transformation, Head of Application Engineering, VP – Data & Technology and selected enterprise architecture leadership roles.
- Geographic focus: United Arab Emirates (priority), Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Open to relocation and opportunities across industries.
- Contact details: [Insert verified mobile] | [Insert professional email] | [Insert LinkedIn URL] | [Insert current city, India]
Languages
English
Proficient
C2
Marathi
Upper Intermediate
B2
Hindi
Advanced
C1
Gujarati
Advanced
C1
Punjabi
Intermediate
B1
Arabic
Elementary
A2
Interests
- Dancing
- Billiards
- Outdoor sports
- Interior Designing
Timeline
Deputy Vice President
KOTAK SECURITIES
09.2023 - Current
Vice President
INSTITUTIONAL SHAREHOLDER SERVICES (ISS)
08.2011 - 09.2023
Senior Software Developer
SYNTTEL INDIA
09.2008 - 07.2011
Business Partner
2 FUTURISTIC COMMUNICATIONS
05.2007 - 04.2008
Master of Science (M.Sc.) - Computer Science
University of Mumbai
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Computer Science
University of Mumbai