Peeyush Gera

Work History

JP Morgan

09.2019 - Current

Transformative leadership: Leading the modernization of a monolithic mainframe application into a micro-services based architecture, enabling scalability and operational resilience for a system processing $3 trillion daily.
Driving innovation: Fostered a culture of experimentation and learning, resulting in innovative software solutions.
Empowering teams: Built a collaborative environment where 40+ professionals were inspired to achieve their full potential, driving a significant increase in team productivity.
Strategic alignment: Partnered with senior executives to ensure technical solutions aligned seamlessly with overarching business goals.
Agility at scale: Implemented Agile practices across teams, reducing delivery timelines and improving release quality.
Operational excellence: Led risk management, resiliency planning, and process optimization.
Hired and managed employees to maximize productivity while training staff on best practices and protocols.
Presented and discussed strategy and initiative progress with senior business leaders.
Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and productivity.

DXC

08.2016 - 09.2019

Building bridges: Acted as a critical liaison between technical teams and business stakeholders, ensuring seamless communication and alignment on priorities.
Fostering collaboration: Inspired a team of 48 to embrace a shared vision for platform migration, achieving a 15% reduction in operational costs.
Driving efficiency: Introduced automation frameworks that improved test accuracy, reduced testing time by 40%, and enabled rapid project turnaround.
Collaborated with business users, technical teams, database administrators and testing teams during kickoff meetings, joint application designing, and planning sessions to validate requirements.
Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
Implemented best practices to drive quality IT project delivery.
Established and enforced project timelines and deadlines.

IBM India Ltd

07.2011 - 08.2016

Leading by example: Guided a team of 23 professionals to deliver 10 annual releases with a 96% defect-free rate.
Resiliency-focused leadership: Ensured operational continuity during high-pressure ISO and security audits, achieving zero nonconformities.
Scaling talent: Mentored junior staff to develop technical and leadership skills, ensuring a robust talent pipeline.
Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety.
Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
Provided detailed project status updates to stakeholders and executive management.
Proved successful working within tight deadlines and a fast-paced environment.
Monitored project progress, identified risks and took corrective action as needed.

Syntel Limited

04.2011 - 07.2011

Joined Syntel in April 2011. Lead the team for T&M work requests for the client Ameriprise, Insurance
Domain on Vantage tool. The scope of offshore work was to provide maintenance and enhancement
Support VANTAGE based insurance application for the client. Work requests were small
Enhancements or fixes for the system in either FP billing or T&M billing. The application was
Developed using technologies including COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL and DB2 on an IBM
Mainframe platform team was involved in supporting work requests and model office
Daily cycles. The domain areas were Life insurance and Annuities.

CSC India Pvt Ltd

03.2006 - 04.2011

Strengthened communication skills through regular interactions with others.
Demonstrated creativity and resourcefulness through the development of innovative solutions.
Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
Acted as a team leader in group projects, delegating tasks and providing feedback.
Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
Used strong analytical and problem-solving skills to develop effective solutions for challenging situations.
Proved successful working within tight deadlines and a fast-paced environment.
Demonstrated a high level of initiative and creativity while tackling difficult tasks.

Infosys Technologies Ltd

08.2004 - 03.2006

Translated technical concepts and information into terms parties could easily comprehend.
Proved successful working within tight deadlines and a fast-paced environment.
Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.