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SANJEEV KUMAR  PANDEY
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SANJEEV KUMAR PANDEY

Pune

Summary

Experienced Delivery/Program Manager with 22 years leading large-scale transformation and application modernization projects in payments, cash management, and enterprise banking. Skilled in managing multimillion-rupee programs, cross-functional teams, vendor relationships, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Expertise includes payments, liquidity management, SWIFT, ISO20022, and core banking integration.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

Executive Project Manager / Delivery Manager

Intellect Design Arena Ltd.
Pune
02.2024 - Current
  • Drove offshore SIT, onsite SIT, UAT readiness, deployment governance, release planning, and client reporting to ensure project alignment and stakeholder satisfaction.
  • Coordinated offshore-onsite teams for change delivery, ensuring adherence to SLAs and maintaining project timelines.
  • Leading end-to-end implementation of Liquidity Management / Cash Concentration solution for IDFC First Bank.
  • Managing critical production support, RCA governance, defect closures, and enhancement delivery for HSBC.
  • Led Kubernetes deployments, environment stabilization, and performance tuning.
  • Delivered enterprise integrations with Kafka, ActiveMQ, reporting (jReport), balance request and accounting(Montran and iTurmeric), and onboarding systems.
  • Successfully enabled Oracle-based product deployment.
  • Managed repo and Jenkins pipeline, automating build, deployment, and certification processes to enhance operational efficiency.

Executive Project Manager / Senior Analyst

Intellect Design Arena Ltd.
London
01.2018 - 01.2024
  • Managed enterprise Cash Management & Payments platform supporting global operations.
  • Led releases, production support, stakeholder communication, and offshore execution.
  • Supported multiple countries, payment formats, and business-critical operations.
  • Executed all production releases with zero rollback incidents.
  • Delivered IBM MQ migration from v7 to v9.1 LTS.
  • Successfully led Disaster Recovery exercises and business continuity readiness.

Executive Project Manager / Sr Project Manager / Project Manager / Project Lead

Intellect Design Arena Ltd. / Polaris Financial Technology Ltd.
Mumbai
04.2008 - 12.2017
  • Led delivery of enterprise Payments Hub implementation for Banco Santander.
  • Managed 12+ member cross-functional team across delivery lifecycle.
  • Owned planning, governance, schedules, deployment, SIT/UAT, and stakeholder communication.
  • Led platform modernization from legacy Oracle/WebSphere stack.
  • Improved high-volume payment processing throughput and reporting efficiency.
  • Implemented clustering and high-availability architecture.

Project Lead / Senior Engineer as Vendor from Polaris Software Labs Ltd

Citibank
Singapore
09.2006 - 04.2008
  • Delivered banking front-end systems integrated with enterprise mainframe platforms.
  • Managed development, defect resolution, testing, and release validation.
  • Supported cards and shared banking modules.

Associate Consultant / Software Engineer

Polaris Software Labs Ltd.
Mumbai
08.2004 - 08.2006
  • Developed sanctions screening modules, MQ utilities, reports, and production support solutions.

Software Engineer

Lionbridge Technologies
Mumbai
08.2003 - 08.2004
  • Developed digital learning applications to enhance user engagement.

Education

MTech - Applied AI

VNIT
Nagpur
09-2026

Master of Computer Applications -

IGNOU
12-2009

PGDCA -

C-DAC ACTS
Hyderabad
07-2002

Bachelor of Computer Applications -

IGNOU
12-2001

Skills

Technical / Cloud / Infra

  • Cloud platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM)
  • Kubernetes, Docker
  • Linux, Solaris, AIX
  • Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL
  • Messaging & streaming: Kafka, IBM MQ, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, JMS
  • Monitoring & logging: Splunk, Grafana, Nagios
  • CI/CD & repos: Jenkins, Git
  • Tools: Jira, Confluence, SQL Developer, JReport, Citrix

Software & Architecture

  • Architecture governance
  • Release management
  • Payments systems
  • Program management
  • MLOps lifecycle

Programming & Data

  • Languages: Java (J2EE, Spring Boot), Python, Shell (sh), SQL
  • ML / Data libraries: NumPy, Scikit-learn, PyTorch (including torch_geometric), TensorFlow/Keras, Matplotlib
  • Data analysis metrics

Machine Learning & Models

  • Core ML: Machine learning, Neural Networks, Computer Vision
  • Specialized architectures
  • ML components methods
  • Feature extraction techniques

Process & Soft Skills

  • Project planning
  • Team leadership
  • Client relations
  • Quality control

Projects

  • Wi-Fi Based Gait Identification, Implemented an MLOps-driven deep learning pipeline using DenseNet1D and MLflow to identify human subjects with 98.3% accuracy by analyzing Wi-Fi signal perturbations.
  • PM2.5 Concentration Forecasting, Developed a Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Network (ST-GNN) and LSTM hybrid model to predict air pollutant levels, achieving an 81% reduction in test loss and 56% improvement in RMSE.
  • Real-Time Object Detection Optimization, Optimized YOLO (v1–v8) architectures for high-speed inference, implementing custom bounding-box transformations and multi-scale feature extraction to enhance localized detection precision.
  • Neural Architecture Engineering, Developed a modular deep learning engine from scratch, architecting generalized Convolutional, Pooling, and Dense layers in Python to support flexible kernel and stride configurations.
  • High-Dimensional Data Optimization, Executed Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for image feature engineering, successfully retaining 95% of data variance while significantly reducing computational overhead and dimensionality.
  • Deep Learning Gradient Analysis, Conducted rigorous mathematical modelling of Activation Functions (Sigmoid/ReLU), analysing weight/bias impact on gradient flow and 3D surface activations to stabilize network convergence.
  • Enterprise MLOps Deployment, Architected end-to-end deployment pipelines using Docker and Flask to deliver containerized, real-time inference dashboards with full experiment tracking via MLflow.

Technical Skills Summary - Ai Machine Learning

  • Deep Learning Architectures: Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks (ST-GNN), ATGN, YOLO (v1-v8), DenseNet1D, AlexNet, LSTM, 1D-CNN, GCN (GraphSAGE).
  • Neural Engineering & Optimization: Convolutional/Pooling Layer Design, Activation Function Dynamics (Sigmoid/ReLU), Multi-Head Self-Attention, Gradient Flow Analysis.
  • Advanced Data Science: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for Dimensionality Reduction, Explained Variance Analysis, Spatio-Temporal Correlation, Multivariate Time-Series Regression.
  • Signal & Image Processing: WiFi CSI Phase Sanitization/Detrending, Signal Decomposition, Multi-scale Feature Extraction, Bounding-Box Transformation Algorithms.
  • MLOps & Cloud Orchestration: End-to-End ML Lifecycle Management via MLflow, Containerization with Docker, Real-time Inference Dashboarding via Flask.
  • Tools & Frameworks: Python (NumPy, Scikit-learn), PyTorch (torch_geometric), TensorFlow/Keras, Matplotlib, SQL.
  • Evaluation & Governance Metrics: RMSE, MAE, R-Square, MAPE, Probability of Detection (POD), Critical Success Index (CSI).

Technical Exposure

Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, SQL, SH, Python, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, MLOps, AWS EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, Kafka, IBM MQ, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, JMS, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Solaris, AIX, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Git, SQL Developer, jReport, Citrix, Splunk, Grafana, Nagios, SWIFT MT, ISO20022, SAP IDOC, CNAB

Timeline

Executive Project Manager / Delivery Manager

Intellect Design Arena Ltd.
02.2024 - Current

Executive Project Manager / Senior Analyst

Intellect Design Arena Ltd.
01.2018 - 01.2024

Executive Project Manager / Sr Project Manager / Project Manager / Project Lead

Intellect Design Arena Ltd. / Polaris Financial Technology Ltd.
04.2008 - 12.2017

Project Lead / Senior Engineer as Vendor from Polaris Software Labs Ltd

Citibank
09.2006 - 04.2008

Associate Consultant / Software Engineer

Polaris Software Labs Ltd.
08.2004 - 08.2006

Software Engineer

Lionbridge Technologies
08.2003 - 08.2004

MTech - Applied AI

VNIT

Master of Computer Applications -

IGNOU

PGDCA -

C-DAC ACTS

Bachelor of Computer Applications -

IGNOU
SANJEEV KUMAR PANDEY