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Shahnawaz Mehndi

Shahnawaz Mehndi

New Delhi

Summary

Principal Engineer at Fidelity International, specializing in scalable systems design and cloud integration. Successfully led the migration of fund accounting applications to AWS, enhancing operational efficiency. Demonstrated strong technical leadership and effective communication skills, driving cross-functional collaboration to deliver innovative solutions that optimize performance and reduce costs.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Principal Engineer

Fidelity International
Gurgaon
04.2023 - Current
  • Designed scalable software solutions to enhance operational efficiency.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather technical requirements.
  • Participated in architecture discussions with the Architecture Review Board to define the system design and framework.
  • Review costs, performance, end-of-life tech stack, and plan/implement improvements, and mitigate risks.
  • Designed scalable architecture solutions for enterprise applications.
  • Evaluated and selected cloud service providers for integration projects.
  • Documented architectural standards and guidelines for future projects.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to understand the current environment and develop future state architectures.
  • Performed cost and benefit analyses of proposed solutions versus existing ones.
  • Conducted research on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies to identify potential improvements for existing architectures.
  • Supported development teams by providing guidance on design decisions related to system performance and scalability.
  • Provided technical leadership in designing, developing and implementing enterprise-wide business solutions.

Distinguished Engineer

Fidelity International
Gurgaon
10.2022 - 03.2023
  • Designed and implemented engineering solutions for Fidelity Investment Solutions and Operations business unit.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams and 3rd Party vendors to migrate Fund Accounting to SaaS
  • Owned end to end planning and implementation of fund accounting applications from on-premise to AWS Cloud and SaaS

Technical Consultant

Fidelity International
Gurgaon
10.2019 - 09.2022
  • Worked in Fidelity's Asset Management Operations Department, looking after applications for holding, cash, and escrow generation.
  • Developed and implemented technical solutions for the Corporate Action business.
  • Migrated corporate action applications from on-premises to cloud/SaaS.
  • Worked with the Architecture Board to review and approve the end-to-end solution for the migration project.
  • Coordinated software and hardware upgrades across multiple applications for ISS ops technology.
  • Owned and coordinated the data center migration for on-premises virtual and physical servers for ISS applications.

Technical Specialist

Fidelity International
Gurgaon
01.2017 - 09.2019
  • Worked in Fidelity's Asset Management Operations Department, looking after applications for holding, cash, and escrow generation.
  • Designed software architecture for these applications.
  • Developed and maintained high-quality code using modern programming languages, like Python and Node.js.
  • Led code reviews to ensure best practices and maintain coding standards.
  • Mentored junior developers to enhance technical skills and project understanding/Functional Knowledge transfer.
  • Build and deployed mircoservices in on-premsie private cloud (Cloud Foundry)
  • Build robust ETL/ELT, highly configurable data pipelines using Python.
  • Migrated ELT frameworks from Informatica to Python based ETL framework, thus saving costs.

Senior Analyst Programmer

Fidelity International
Gurgaon
01.2013 - 12.2016
  • Worked in Fidelity's Asset Management Operations Department, looking after applications for holding, cash and esrow generation.
  • Responsible for developing and maintaing the ETL/ELT pipelines and business logic for creating holdings and Cash and Escrow data for FIL's Trading Platform.
  • Developed high quality performant PL/SQL stored procs, Shell Scripts, Informatica workflows
  • Created detailed technical documentation for all developed software solutions for these systems.
  • Created, reviewed, and modified unit and integration tests to improve software quality and reliability.
  • Designed database schemas that represent and support business processes, Performance tuning of OLTP databases.
  • DevOps - Built CI/CD pipelines using Bamboo and IBM urban deploy.

Analyst Programmer

Fidelity International
Gurgaon
10.2011 - 12.2013
  • Worked in Fidelity's Investment Management Department, looking after applications for order generation.
  • Responsible for developing and maintaing the ETL/ELT pipelines and business logic for Investment Management system for FIL.
  • Developed high quality performant PL/SQL stored procs, Shell Scripts, Informatica workflows
  • Job scheduling using Autosys and Control-M.
  • Created, reviewed, and modified unit and integration tests to improve software quality and reliability.
  • DevOps - Built CI/CD pipelines using Bamboo and IBM urban deploy.

IT Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
New Delhi
01.2010 - 09.2011
  • Worked for the Indian Income Tax Department to develop the eTDS (electronic Tax Deduction at Source) system, responsible for loading and calculating tax deducted by individuals, firms, and companies for any discrepancies.
  • Developed PL/SQL stored procedures, database tables/schemas, and Shell scripts.
  • Used Oracle D2K (Forms and Reports) to build an Income Tax application.

Assistant System Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
New Delhi
07.2007 - 12.2009
  • Worked for the Indian Income Tax Department to develop the eTDS (electronic Tax Deduction at Source) system, responsible for loading and calculating tax deducted by individuals, firms, and companies for any discrepancies.
  • Developed PL/SQL stored procedures, database tables/schemas, and Shell scripts.
  • Used Oracle D2K (Forms and Reports) to build an Income Tax application.
  • Trained Income tax department users to use application and helped resolve their problems.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering

Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh, India
07-2007

Skills

  • Software architecture
  • Cloud integration
  • Scalable systems design
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Performance optimization
  • Technical documentation
  • Risk management
  • Cost-benefit analysis
  • Problem solving
  • Effective communication
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Product roadmapping
  • Database design
  • Continuous integration
  • Engineering documentation
  • Technical leadership
  • Containerization
  • Data modeling
  • Security best practices
  • Microservices architecture
  • Serverless architecture
  • Continuous deployment
  • DevOps practices
  • Python, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Open Source, Cloud Foundry, GitHub, Jenkins, Atlassian Bamboo, JIRA, SCRUM, Autosys, Control-M, Oracle/MySQL, PL/SQL, Shell Scripting, ETL/ELT, NoSQL

Certification

The Open Group Certified (TOGAF Foundational and TOGAF Arctitecture Practitioner)

Languages

English
First Language
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
Urdu
Proficient (C2)
C2
Arabic
Intermediate (B1)
B1

Timeline

Principal Engineer

Fidelity International
04.2023 - Current

Distinguished Engineer

Fidelity International
10.2022 - 03.2023

Technical Consultant

Fidelity International
10.2019 - 09.2022

Technical Specialist

Fidelity International
01.2017 - 09.2019

Senior Analyst Programmer

Fidelity International
01.2013 - 12.2016

Analyst Programmer

Fidelity International
10.2011 - 12.2013

IT Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
01.2010 - 09.2011

Assistant System Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
07.2007 - 12.2009

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering

Aligarh Muslim University

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