Prasad Kaje Bhat
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Professional engineering manager with strong foundation in software development and team leadership. Adept at overseeing complex projects and ensuring delivery of high-quality software products. Known for fostering collaborative work environment and consistently achieving results through strategic planning and adaptability.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineering Manager / Executive Director
Wells Fargo
11.2022 - Current
- Accountability reflecting full project lifecycle in complex cloud migration program
- Interacting with application owners/ users and third-party vendors globally
- Leading and managing large multi-site teams of 60+ developers
- Mentored junior developers and promoted professional growth within the team, resulting in increased productivity levels.
- Cultivated strong relationships with external vendors to ensure opportunities to streamline and optimize were continuously evaluated.
Vice President
Deutsche Bank
07.2017 - 11.2022
- Led eight to twelve agile teams to modernize reference data systems, focusing on microservice rollouts, performance optimization, and strategic alignment.
- Partnered with global stakeholders to drive digital transformation and overhaul legacy systems for scalability and compliance.
- Championed talent development programs, promoting employee engagement and retention while enhancing overall workforce capabilities.
- Led cross-functional teams for the successful completion of major projects, resulting in increased efficiency and end user satisfaction.
- Established a culture of continuous improvement, fostering innovation and driving sustainable growth across the team.
- Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.
Vice President
Goldman Sachs
02.2011 - 07.2017
- Built a platform (green field) which will service position/ Mark To Market requests received on a portal from the auditors of various clients of GS and generate statements accordingly.
- A large team of more than 25 Operations personnel acted on these requests manually. The project in phased delivery approach helped reduce operations costs (by nearly 50%) and reduce turnaround time (from 2 weeks to 1-2 days)
- Enhanced the existing Invoice payment Application at Goldman Sachs for OTC products to be able to handle and support multi region, multi entity, multi product type invoices. Also be able to handle invoice payments of upto $1.5B per year
- Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and productivity.
Assistant Vice President
Barclays Bank
10.2008 - 10.2010
- Development Manager for the counterparty stream of work
- Solution Architect for both counterparty and product streams in Singapore
- Stakeholders based in London, New York and Singapore.
Manager
UBS
08.2007 - 07.2008
- Solution Architect for FI stream of Wispa Application mainly
- Designed and implemented on various projects like Martini – WISPA feed interface, Euroclear connectivity, TRAX (ISMA connectivity), Fixed Income Settlement Netting, Fixed Income Euroclear Repo-Triparty, Confirmations, European Pre-Issuance Messaging System (EPIMM) interface, Euroclear Real Time Borrowing, EuroClear Triparty Collateral Real-time, Swift 2001 standard implementation, DEFCON implementation.
Manager
Societe Generale
11.2005 - 08.2007
- Managed a team of around 3-9 contractors. Liaised with the Business teams to gather and scope requirements. Hands on developer as well.
- Responsible for migrating the overnight batch to Autosys and also the overnight jobs/ reports were performance tuned to ensure that the system downtime was reduced.
- Responsible for implementing a different approach to run some of the reports. Lead a team of 3 resources.
Senior Software Engineer
Tata Infotech
08.1997 - 12.1999
- Involved in building 2 different prototypes - Secure Health Care Information System Project (SHIS) and DICOMViewer
- The purpose of the DICOMViewer prototype was to develop a medical imaging software prototype that enables medical images in DICOM 3.0 format, stored in an electronic media, to be viewed on a PC
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Manipal Institute of Technology
Manipal, India07-1997
Skills
- Operating Systems – Unix, Windows, Linux
- Languages/Tools - Java, C, Perl, Shell Scripting
- Database - Sybase, SQL Server, DB2 and Oracle
- Messaging formats - Swift, Trax, XML, CMM (proprietary)
- Version Control – GitHub, Clearcase, CVS, Subversion, Visual Source Safe
- Scheduling tools - Autosys, Cron
- CI/ CD - Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Harness
- Microservices architecture
- Performance optimization
- DevOps practices
Timeline
Senior Software Engineering Manager / Executive Director
Wells Fargo
11.2022 - Current
Vice President
Deutsche Bank
07.2017 - 11.2022
Vice President
Goldman Sachs
02.2011 - 07.2017
Assistant Vice President
Barclays Bank
10.2008 - 10.2010
Manager
UBS
08.2007 - 07.2008
Manager
Societe Generale
11.2005 - 08.2007
Senior Software Engineer
Tata Infotech
08.1997 - 12.1999
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Manipal Institute of Technology
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