Onkarr Bidawe

• As Director of Platform, I am responsible to architect and oversee the building of the entire technology platform for all aspects of the wealth management business requirements, viz., application, data-source integration, workflow management, transaction management, data-driven learning algorithms; among others, in both private wealth management (PWM) and digital wealth management (DWM) areas.
  
• In partnership with the company's leaders, identify opportunities and risks for delivering the company's services as a scalable web-based business, including identification of competitive services, opportunities for innovation.
  
• Evaluate tech platforms available in the market in wealth management domain.
  
• Lead engineering/IT team and coordinate with Ops, sales and other stakeholders.
  
• Participate as a member of the senior management team in establishing governance processes of direction and control to ensure that objectives are achieved, risks are managed appropriately and the organization's resources are used responsibly, particularly in the areas of software development, Devops, and IT infra management.
• Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic app into microservices, improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed.
• Develop DevOps/CICD platform for SaaS application
• Design and deploy microservices and infrastructure pipelines using AWS CDK, CDKPipelines, AWS Developer Tools
• Architect application provisioning in multiple AWS accounts and regions using AWS Step Functions, Lambda
• Apply Infrastructure/Infosec best practices through Infrastructure as Code
• Enabling engineering teams to develop efficiently by providing a faster feedback loop through GitHub Actions
• Develop Python/NodeJS package build, test, and publish mechanism and enable semantic versioning
• Provision, manage, optimize Kafka clusters using Terraform
• Manage GitHub.com Org/Teams, automate repository creation, branch protection, and status checks
• Design and automate OKTA OAuth application deployment using CDK Terraform
• Perform feature evaluation of LaunchDarkly and Optimizely and recommended feature flag solution to manage feature releases
• Work with product security group and develop automation for OSS vulnerabilities and license scanning
• Develop infrastructure as code scanning automation using Terraform, CheckMarx KICS and CFN-Guard
• Guide a team of engineers in developing a command-line tool to support AWS login, enable ECR container vulnerability scanning, python package document generation
• Develop software build, test, and release jobs using TeamCity, Jenkins for appliance software business
• Automate build processes using Python
• Manage and support Artifactory, TeamCity, Jenkins’s infrastructure
• Perform cost analysis of AWS resources and provide recommendations for optimizing cost
  
• Collaborate with the appropriate departments to assess and recommend technologies that support company organizational needs.
  
• Direct development and execution of an enterprise-wide information security plan that protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the company's data and servers.
  
• Monitor application performance and review any application failures in staging or production.
  
• As a member of the senior management team, establish a customer service and support process, with particular responsibility for all application services that implement the support function. Establish a process to integrate customer service and support with the software engineering process to support resolution of customer issues and improve application usability.
  
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry trends, emerging technologies, and software development best practices by attending relevant conferences and reading widely.
  
• Ensure that technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization.
  
• Share knowledge, mentor, and educate the organization's management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders with regard to the company's technological vision, opportunities, and challenges.

• Managed cloud kitchen platform team
• Analyzing, executing, and streamlining DevOps practices.
• Establishing continuous build environments to speed up software development.
• Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic app into microservices, improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed.
• Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using GitLab CI and kubernetes helm.
• Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS, EC2, S3,RDS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Elastic Cache Redis, Document DB and ECR.
• Performance optimization of Node JS application using Redis and memcache.
• Performance testing using Jmeter, Locust.
  Building Spring boot Java projects using gradle.
• Designing efficient practices. Delivering comprehensive best practices.
• Managing and reviewing technical operations. Guiding the development team.
• Setting up Observability, monitoring tools and alerts using APM and Log management technologies such as Prometheus and Grafana, New Relic, Datadog.

Architected and managed a omni channel , neo banking software platforms and teams.

• Worked as sr. software engineering manager to develop ecommerce software systems.
• I was also involved in technical application design, development, implementation, management, performance tuning, testing and rolling out features of the cloud applications to customers in all stages of software development life cycle using technologies like aws cloud ,java, node.js, python, jenkins, ant, maven to build multi tier enterprise ,e-commerce, b2b , crm , internet , intranet web applications using apache, tomcat, micro-services on paas, cloud platforms.
• Extensive coding in java, java script, node.js, python using software frameworks like spring, hibernate, servlets, jsp, angular.js, express.js, html,css , jms, sqs, sns, active mq, kafka and databases like oracle, postgres , dynamo db etc, application servers like apache and tomcat.
• Mentoring junior members in the team. working with director and vp of software engineering, configurations, support and operations teams.
• Developing microservices using spring boot, Express.js ( Node.js ) etc
• Ensuring teams follow the correct procedures, policies and documentation requirements across project phases.
• Task allocation and performance evaluation of team members
  Project scheduling and resource management,Planning, budgeting and reporting on projects
• Make presentations on project status, present weekly, monthly and annual reports to senior management.
• Communicate with client teams and gather requirements, conduct regular team meetings and track project progress.
• Interview candidates and hire resources.
• Provide an efficient working atmosphere to project teams and ensure objectives are met within a stipulated time.
• A background of working with development best practices.
  Responding to issues as they occur and identifying product/deployment.
• Improvements to mitigate future occurrences.
• Sprint planning, reviews, retro and in time delivery within estimated cost.