SAUMYA RAMANAN
Summary
Results-driven technology leader with 20 years of experience in the payments and fintech domain. Proven track record of building high-performing teams and delivering value for large initiatives through transformational technical leadership.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING – Value Added Services
VISA CONSOLIDATED SERVICES
Bengaluru
09.2021 - Current
- Expanded leadership role within the Acceptance Platform – Value Added Services responsible for Product development and leading Engineering teams for Tokenization and Data Engineering across Bengaluru, Belfast and Poland comprising 30+ FTEs and contractors
- Proven track record for <5% rollbacks and zero production incidents alongside achieving other business OKRs
- Built the India Data Center for VISA Token Management System (VTMS) platform – involved in drafting requirement charter, enterprise architecture and system design review, capacity planning, SRE parameters, roll-out strategy, monitoring and implementation
- Responsible for all India Regulatory requirements for VTMS – implementing all RBI mandates and requirements
- Successfully managed several data and technical audits
- Contributed directly to Global Objectives and KRs FY 23 through FY25 – Increase merchant, reseller and partner adoption of a converged Token Management Service to be leading market solution – 12 B TMS tokens and 600 M Network Token (FY24)
- Deliver Visa Token Service capabilities and new acceptance flows in VTMS encompassing features including VCEH (Push provisioning), Token for Token, Card Art for VISA Tokenization Management Service
- Maintain Visa’s reputation in Security and availability - Deliver 99.999 Uptime and Optimize Network Token performance
- Manage security posture as Application technical contact – no remediation timeline extensions for findings, 100% timely patching and upgrades
- Integrated Data platforms for Tokenization Reporting to generate real time reports for Visa Business Execs and Merchants
- Single Point of Contact for all APAC features built on Visa TMS – Guest checkout flow – managed the engineering implementation including enterprise design, implementation, monitoring, scaling and rollout
- Delivered several features on VTMS to have parity and compliance with other network token features including Visa Token Service (VTS), Mastercard (MDES), AMEX
- Selected for Visa Women Leadership program conducted by UC Berkely with 15 other Directors and Senior Directors in APAC and EMEA
- As evangelist for GenAI – Driving 80% adoption for code reviews, test automation improving efficiency by 80%
- Been judge for several Hackathons, placed in top 5 amongst 50 teams as part of GenAI ideation workshop
- Technical blogs and talks on GenAI to credit
TECHNICAL TRIBE HEAD - GTB
SOCIETE GENERALE GLOBAL SOLUTION CENTRE
Chennai
04.2018 - 09.2021
- Set up Global Transaction Banking Unit spanning across 3 Sub Business Lines in GSC (Chennai) from base zero – International Cash Management (CMI), Liquidity (PRC-LMS) and Correspondent Banking (BAN)
- Ramped up the unit from zero to ~45+ FTEs, encompassing 8+ applications (autonomous ownership) with oversight encompassing 40+ other applications [including Payment engines, Settlement Systems, Transaction orchestrators, Referentials, Cash Pooling, Reporting, Trade, FX applications spread across 4 Regions ASI, AMER, INDIA, EUR in the Global Transaction & Payment Services (GTPS) and Retail (ITIM) estate] in less than 3 years
- Responsible for driving digitalization and transformation for at least 5 applications (full ownership) in the perimeter by migrating to microservices cloud-based architecture (On-Prem to Oracle Cloud Platform)
- Managed the bank’s flagship transformation programme for transformation of all Retail & Wholesale banking applications to a digital/vendor based estate
- Was involved in technical & functional review for the RFP/RFQ process that started in Q4-2020 involving 15+ global vendors
- Represent the global STEERCO from GSC, co-sponsor for OKR (Objective Key Results) for Digital transformation, Client NPS and Capabilities & Careers
- As Data science evangelist applied Machine learning (EDA and Predictive analysis) to understand customer transaction patterns, predict over drafts and negative balances for Corporate Banking customers of Globalcash and advising clients on offerings including Working Capital Loans etc
- Presented to Asia PCM Business using predictive technique
- Senior Leadership program cohort in GSC – selected among top 5% of women senior leaders globally
Sr. DELIVERY MANAGER
VIRTUSA CORPORATION
06.2016 - 04.2018
- As Senior Delivery Manager for the BFS vertical of Virtusa, delivered a huge Technical Program for First Data Corporation Inc
- To fix 100K+ Security vulnerabilities in their suit of Retail & Corporate Banking applications covering ~100 applications – FirstData and various Banking interfaces like Citiconnect, Enterprise services etc
- Ramped up to a team of ~200 FTE within 10 months to address all critical security vulnerabilities implementing Agile/Kanban working closely with Security experts and Industry SMEs
- Led the technical approach walkthrough to customer based on Static and Dynamic vulnerability detection for OWASP, False positive handling, testing strategy covering penetration, SIT etc
- Implemented Virtusa GIP (Global Innovation process) and adopted best practices on Delivery Score card, Audits and Innovation to ensure smooth delivery from RFP till the closure within budgets
- As Program manager for Paypal Inc., took responsibility for program delivery for 3 teams comprising of ~30 direct engineering staff of Paypal Inc delivering Pega solutions for Global Operations division
- Responsible for driving Agile practices, program and stakeholder management spread across – SJC, Omaha, Europe, APAC and India to deliver several Paypal BigBets initiatives like Paypal India rollout, Venmo and Alipay implementation
- Member of exco representing program (PMO) that comprised of Paypal Leadership and Global PMT
RELEASE MANAGER
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND
01.2011 - 04.2014
- As Global Tech Release & Implementation manager for Multi Channel Sales (MCS) - Retail Banking division of RBS handled MCS which was a green field transformation programme for creating online Current account via STP for Natwest, Ulster & RBS brands
- As technical Release Manager was responsible for planning iterations, managing technical dependencies, working closely with Architecture team and end to end stakeholder
- Chaired very critical Command & Control calls with global stakeholders across Edinburgh, London, Chennai, Gurgaon – every day for 10 months
- Responsible for finalizing and ensuring delivery of technical (NFR) and functional requirements working closely with Global Enterprise ARC team & UX teams
- As project manager of Corporate Banking Division was responsible for delivery of a £18 million programme to deliver a customised Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 solution to 3,000 users in the Corporate Banking division with vendors., Developer for Messaging modules in Java for in-house Product start-up (building Enterprise J2EE containers)
Software Engineer to Senior Consultant
09.2000 - 12.2010
- As a senior consultant at Cognizant Software (India): Instrumental in setting up Application support at ODC following ITIL model through transition from Client team for Comet Inc
- As Technical Designer was responsible for UI module design for in Java, JSF framework by working closely with Architects and Designers from Client side for Kohl's Retail Corporation
- As a software consultant at Genovate Singapore- Was hands-on designer & developer in Java, .NET for various Asian clients like Sony Inc., Eng-Wah Cinemas
- Developer in Java and .NET for Retail banking – Bank of America
- Developer for Messaging modules for in-house Product start-up (Orchidsoft - building Enterprise J2EE containers)
Education
MTECH - SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
BITS PILANI
06.2015
Bachelor of Engineering - INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROL ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
08.2000
Skills
- Digitalization & Transformation
- Microservices
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- Java 8
- Angular
- ReactJS
- REST APIs
- Middleware technologies
- Data Warehouse
- Big data
- Cloud
- Adoption
- Consolidation
- Migrations
- Software craftsmanship
- TDD
- BDD
- Cucumber
- Test Automation
- Selenium
- Platform Architecture
- Multi Tenancy
- Sizing & Capacity Planning
- Performance and availability planning
- Capacity planning
- Resiliency
- Monitoring techniques
- Scalability
- Reliability
- Security
- Application Security
- IAM
- Vulnerabilities
- DevsecOps
- E2E Product Management
- Product Definition
- Voice of Customer Analytics
- Product Engineering
- Roadmap
- App Services Cloud
- IaaS
- SaaS
- Devops
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Docker Swarm
- CI/CD pipeline
- GitHub
- Jenkins
- Sonarqube
- Kibana
- Grafana
- Monitoring
- Logging
- ELK
- Database
- Messaging
- MQ series
- Rabbit MQ
- Kafka
- Oracle
- Postgres
- MongoDB
- SQL Server
- NoSQL DB
- Delivery methodologies
- Scaled Agile
- Kanban
- ITIL
- Scrumban
- Data Engineering
- SQL
- Data warehousing
- Hadoop
- Apache Spark
- ETL
- Talend
- TensorFlow
- Machine Learning
- Programming Languages
- Python
- C#
- Exposure to BPM
- CRM
- Pega
- Data Visualization
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Seaborn
Certification
- Amplify Women’s Leadership program, UC Berkeley & Visa, 05/01/24
- Digital Payments Catalyst, Wharton University, 2023
- Data Analysis, Texas McCombs & Great Lakes Institute, 2021
- Fintech Online Certification, HarvardX, 05/01/20
Timeline
DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING – Value Added Services
VISA CONSOLIDATED SERVICES
09.2021 - Current
TECHNICAL TRIBE HEAD - GTB
SOCIETE GENERALE GLOBAL SOLUTION CENTRE
04.2018 - 09.2021
Sr. DELIVERY MANAGER
VIRTUSA CORPORATION
06.2016 - 04.2018
RELEASE MANAGER
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND
01.2011 - 04.2014
Software Engineer to Senior Consultant
09.2000 - 12.2010
MTECH - SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
BITS PILANI
Bachelor of Engineering - INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROL ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
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