Komal Lohani
Summary
Dynamic Senior Associate at JP Morgan Chase & Co. with expertise in designing investment platforms and optimizing API performance. Proven ability to enhance system efficiency and mentor teams, leveraging skills in Java and cross-functional collaboration to drive impactful solutions. Committed to delivering results that exceed expectations.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Associate
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Bengaluru
09.2024 - Current
- Designed and developed a private investment advisory platform used by JPM Private Investment portfolio managers to manage advisory profiles, investment models, and maximum position sizing across private equity funds.
- Led the end-to-end design and development of the application in collaboration with the manager and technical lead, owning core business flows, and delivery.
- Implemented a guided choice investment model, enabling advisors to construct client portfolios based on predefined investment strategies and allocation models provided by the Private Investment team.
- Built support for Max Position Sizing (Bitesize) recommendations, ensuring advisor and client decisions remain within program-defined constraints, while allowing controlled customization.
- Enhanced and maintained multiple existing private investment applications, including systems managing Schedules of Investment (SOI) for private equity funds.
- Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including product, investment advisors, upstream producers, and downstream consumers, to ensure the correctness of financial logic and seamless integration.
Engineering Consultant
GlobalLogic
01.2022 - Current
- Worked for Hitachi's Lumada EAM project - Lumada EAM is specifically built to support the complete lifecycle of assets. Achieved through complete enterprise functionality across asset management and maintenance, scheduling and execution, work planning, supply chain and material management, multi-entity financial management, and people management.
- Conducted an in-depth analysis of a project component to identify inefficiencies and proposing solutions that led to a 20% increase in overall system performance.
- Enhanced the performance of a critical API by introducing strategic indexes on key filtering fields and optimizing payload size in POST requests. This effort reduced API timeout exceptions and improved system efficiency by 50%.
- Addressing a major pain point of database migration by enhancing Flyway migration capabilities to support cross-schema migrations. This improvement streamlined the management of multiple schemas, resulting in smoother migration processes.
- Mentored and guided junior team members to understand the project architecture, business flow and processes, fostering a collaborative and knowledgeable team environment.
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services (Paypal)
01.2018 - 01.2022
- Developed features like SendMoney and ReceiveMoney in the payment domain
- Improved system robustness and scalability using advanced Java features and the latest Spring framework and web APIs
- Primarily focused on developing APIs for Basic Payment and Action modules
Software Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services (Barcalys)
01.2013 - 01.2018
- Built an application for consuming country-specific, real-time, and event-specific feeds containing projection data and near-time cash balances
- Provided and implemented a solution for processing event-specific feeds using SpringBatch.
- Implemented a solution for scheduling Spring Batch applications using Autosys
- Developed strategic solutions for transparency and management of transaction costs, including service-based fees ranging from brokerage to settlement
- Worked on optimizing query performance in the database using Query Plan in TOAD
- Understood and implemented business logic for calculating trade cost
Education
B.Tech -
Gandhi Institute Of Engineering and Technology
01.2012
Skills
- Maven
- GIT
- Kafka
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Rest API
- Sql
- Hibernate
- Autosys
- Jenkins
- Sonar
- Java
- Java 8 features
- Spring framework
- Spring Boot
- Microservices
- Spring JPA
- Spring Batch
- API performance optimization
- Database migration management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Requirement analysis and gathering
- Problem solving
- Team mentoring
- Effective communication
- Team leadership
- Problem-solving abilities
Certification
- OCJP
- BEC VANTAGE
Accomplishments
I received the 'On the Spot Award' for developing one of the complex features of generating LUMADA-specific IDs for child entities as well; earlier, they were generated only for parent entities. It resolved and simplified CRUD operations.
Timeline
Senior Associate
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
09.2024 - Current
Engineering Consultant
GlobalLogic
01.2022 - Current
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services (Paypal)
01.2018 - 01.2022
Software Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services (Barcalys)
01.2013 - 01.2018
B.Tech -
Gandhi Institute Of Engineering and Technology