Finance & Technology (I run my own blog – https://blogbluebitsnbytescom)
Kapil Kumar
Director Engineering- Technology
Gurgaon
Summary
Seasoned Technology professional with 18 years of extensive global experience in Software Engineering Management, Technical Program Management, Solution Architecture, Technology consulting and Agile delivery across Finance (BFSI), Energy, Healthcare and Capital Markets.
Proven track record in driving digital transformation, leading cross-geography teams, managing end-to-end software development & delivering Cloud-based scalable distributed solutions. Award-winning contributor, recently completed Master’s program in Finance & Financial Technologies with distinction at Henley Business School, UK
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
9
9
Certifications
Work History
Education Career Break
Henley Business School,
07.2023 - 09.2024
• Led a project and team of 4 master’s students for empirical analysis on SEC 10Q filings for 200+ companies’ stocks & financial data, utilizing web crawling, sentiment analysis, and econometric modelling in Python to derive insights.
• Evaluated ML models using Confusion Matrix and Recall scores, optimizing for high cardinality and imbalanced data.
• Did SWOT analysis and case study of HSBC Holdings' business model & sustainability practices using annual reports.
Director Engineering, Technology
Encora (Indecomm Global)
01.2020 - 05.2023
- Company Overview: A Warburg Pincus Co
- Hired & built high performance scrum teams
- Directed & mentored 33+ member engineering teams (tech leads, scrum masters, product & QA managers, architects) managing software product engineering & delivery for 6500+ care clinics
- Collaborated with key stakeholders & executive leadership for strategy, roadmap planning & risk management
- Managed team of 5 leading scope, time & cost analysis and developed Project Plans (Gantt Charts)
- A Warburg Pincus Co
Manager Consulting Expert
CGI Inc. (formerly Logica plc.)
12.2016 - 01.2020
- Led the design and engineering of Shell NV’s global B2B Payments & Cards Program, enabling 330M+ annual transactions across 36+ countries with scalable, integrated payment solutions ensuring PCI-DSS & GDPR compliance
- Drove design & engineering of Azure-based solutions, including a scalable expense management system for cloud migration, conversational AI suite boosting customer satisfaction and enterprise dashboard (Power BI) saving $550K
- Proposed Azure cloud-native microservices ecommerce (Kubernetes, Service Bus) & Data engineering (ETL) solutions for large-scale integration leveraging SAP, Data Lake, Databricks & Data Factory, driving Presales & RFP Responses
Software Engineer & Consultant
02.2005 - 09.2016
- Provided technical oversight to 10-member team at Capita, India to develop a cloud-based financial product for SIMS Finance, UK, reducing costs and improving code quality & application performance by 60%
- Automated exposure calculation and margin call notices by developing a .Net / SQL backend app (team size: 4) at Publicis
- Sapient Royal Bank of Scotland (NatWest) client office for Credit Risk team, improving operational efficiency
- Designed and implemented an HFT latency monitoring client-server app, enhancing FX trade efficiency by 2x, while optimising DevOps and release cycles for Royal Bank of Scotland’s (NatWest) FX & Credit Pricing teams
- Developed trading application for Citibank Front Office Middle Office at onsite Citibank CCA NY office and coordinated the FinanceScout24 portal at client Munich office, delivering solutions in ASP.NET MVC, C#, JavaScript and HTML
- Developed test cases in VS Teams for Office 365 at Microsoft Redmond office as Software Design Engineer in Test
Education
Masters (MS) - Computers Science
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 09.2003 - 12 2005
B.E Hons. - Computer Science
Maharshi Dayanand University
Rohtak, India05-2002
Skills
- Technical Leadership
- Excellent communication
- Program Management
- Product Management
- Strategy
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Digital Transformation,
- Agile (SAFe 45),
- Delivery Management,
- Architecture & Design,
- Presales,
- Cross-functional Collaboration,
- Stakeholder Management,
- Project Management,
- Change Management,
- Budgeting
- Cloud (AWS, Azure & GCP)
- Infrastructure (EC2, VM’s, Networking, API Gateway),
- PaaS & SaaS,
- Docker & Kubernetes,
- Azure AI, Gen AI (Copilot & ChatGPT),
- Data Science
- KNIME
- ML & Data Analytics
- System Design
- Security
- Python (NumPy, Pandas, TensorFlow), jupyter
- C#, Net Core, ASPNet MVC
- REST API‘s (Postman, Swagger),
- SQL,
- S3,
- NoSQL (DynamoDB, Blob & Table storage, Redis),
- RDBMS (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redshift),
- Java
- C
- Big Data & Hadoop
- JavaScript
- ReactJS
- Spring boot
- DevOps & CI/CD (GitHub, Jenkins, SVN)
- Atlassian (JIRA, Confluence)
- Power BI
Accomplishments
- Spearheaded offshore product engineering for US health client resulting in 2X annual revenue growth ($3.0M to $6.0M).
- Defined KPI’s and established Agile aligned SDLC & engineering processes leading to a 150% improvement across scrum teams.
- Won multimillion SOW contract by collaborating with Grant Thornton Audit partner for Project Discovery & Technical Assessment (team: 5x) of US health tech customer’s business divestment program.
- Optimised NatWest UK India software engineering process & weekly release cycle resulting in 2X quicker deployments.
- Successfully led the integration of 3rd party vendors & automation of insurance claims workflows for 24,000+ concurrent users using HIPAA-compliant, low-cost hybrid API driven AWS cloud-native solution, halving claims processing time.
- Led the development of hybrid AWS and Azure cloud-native solutions, integrating Kafka, SQS, SNS, Signal R, Azure service bus and REST APIs for secure, scalable systems in BFSI and healthcare.
- Led Innovation Committee at CGI, facilitating cross-team brainstorming sessions to prototype cutting-edge solutions.
- Collaborated with global teams for Shell’s B2B Fuel Cards program, earning the APEX Award for teamwork excellence.
- Recognition at Publicis. Sapient by RBS (NatWest) customer for developing business critical software applications for Credit Risk & FX Tools teams enhancing operational-efficiency, risk-management & regulatory compliance.
- Analysed large datasets & engineered Time Series Forecasting and Multiclass Classification ML models in Python.
- Proposed strategic technical & business solutions for launching new online digital bank (challenger) for Canada market.
Certification
Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) certified (Bloomberg).
Interests
Traveling & Hiking
Timeline
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals & Azure Open AI (Microsoft)
11-2024
Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) certified (Bloomberg).
07-2024
Generative AI for Product Managers (LinkedIn Learning)
07-2024
KNIME Analytics Platform L1 Certified
06-2024
Education Career Break
Henley Business School,
07.2023 - 09.2024
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Amazon)
09-2021
Agile Project Management (Scrum, Udemy)
07-2021
Director Engineering, Technology
Encora (Indecomm Global)
01.2020 - 05.2023
Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions 70-535
09-2018
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe 4.5) certified
07-2018
Manager Consulting Expert
CGI Inc. (formerly Logica plc.)
12.2016 - 01.2020
Project Management Professional (PMP) certified
08-2011
Software Engineer & Consultant
02.2005 - 09.2016
Masters (MS) - Computers Science
Syracuse University
09.2003 - 12 2005
B.E Hons. - Computer Science
Maharshi Dayanand University
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