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Technical Leadership
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TARUN KUMAR

TARUN KUMAR

Pune

Summary

  • Innovative and results-driven IT engineering leader with over 20 years of experience in designing, developing, and deploying large-scale, mission-critical enterprise systems.
  • Expert technologist with deep experience in SOA, event-driven architecture, and in building bespoke, modern cloud-native applications, as well as migrating legacy monoliths to microservices-based architecture.
  • Proven track record of leading cross-functional engineering teams and delivering impactful solutions across Banking, Wealth Management, Collateral, and Insurance domains.
  • Delivering technology leadership in building, managing, and scaling large technical teams—empowering, nurturing, and mentoring them to succeed.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Director, Chapter Lead

UBS Business Solutions
Pune
01.2019 - Current
  • Architected and led development of Banking Foundation Platform, enabling high-performance communication across applications under 'Build BUSA Bank' program.
  • Spearheaded migration of strategic applications to SOA and Event-Driven Architecture, enhancing scalability and performance.
  • Established WMA L3 Production Support Team in Pune, growing team to 50 members ensuring 24x7 system availability.
  • Recruited, mentored, and managed engineering talent while collaborating with stakeholders and external partners for project success.

AVP

Deutsche Bank
Pune
01.2016 - 01.2019
  • Technical Lead for CTD (Cheapest to Deliver) application under Collateral Management, used in OTC trading.
  • CTD is an algorithm trained to identify the cheapest asset to pledge based on hundreds of complex rules/factors during OTC trades between financial institutions.
  • Responsible for full-cycle design, implementation, and coordination with Central Architecture.

Technical Architect

Capsilon India
Pune
01.2015 - 01.2016
  • Architected DocVelocity, a document and data platform supporting the mortgage lifecycle.
  • Led development of modules for document capture, validation, collaboration, and e-transactions.

Senior Consultant

GlobalLogic India Pvt. Ltd.
Noida
01.2005 - 01.2015
  • Progressed from developer to tech lead and consultant, contributing across multiple products and geographies.
  • Delivered complex product features while serving as an onsite coordinator and team mentor.

Education

MCA -

MD University
Rohtak, Haryana
01.2004

BCA -

MD University
Rohtak, Haryana
01.2001

Skills

  • Java
  • Spring
  • Spring Boot
  • Kafka
  • Observability with Prometheus/Grafana
  • JPA/Hibernate
  • SOA/Microservices
  • Event-Driven Architecture
  • Design Patterns
  • System Design
  • Azure
  • Azure APIM
  • Azure DataFactory
  • Azure Kubernetes Service
  • CI/CD
  • Build Pipelines
  • Oracle
  • SQL Server
  • PostgreSQL
  • JMS
  • JSON
  • XML
  • Agile/Scrum
  • Production Support
  • Code Quality

Accomplishments

  • Earned the Certified Engineer title at UBS — awarded to selected individuals making significant contributions to uplift
  • Engineering culture and set the right example for teams to emulate
  • Super Star Award, UBS — Won the award for building a reusable code scanner tool in a competition held across
  • geographies in 2019.
  • Best Trainer, GlobalLogic — Recognized in the fresher training program for delivering training on formats and
  • Protocols focusing on XML
  • First Runner-up, Inter-University Overnight Coding Competition held at YMCA, Faridabad, in 2003 where
  • Candidates from 16 universities participated
  • Multiple monthly and quarterly awards across organizations

Technical Leadership

  • Catalyst for driving the adoption of best engineering practices across stacks like Java, Cloud-native architecture, data engineering, solution architecture, chaos engineering.
  • Drove several organization wide security initiatives by encouraging the culture of innovation, out of the box thinking, 2-way door decisions, Hackathons, thus producing a robust scanner tool to detect Digital Accessibility vulnerabilities in systems.
  • Rolled out processes for establishing right ownership & quality gate controls in various stages of SDLC to minimize risks to production systems.
  • Established the data driven culture for ownership & accountability in the teams enabled through right tools and processes to ensure various metrics regarding resilience of systems, quality of deliveries are tracked & continuously improved.

Timeline

Director, Chapter Lead

UBS Business Solutions
01.2019 - Current

AVP

Deutsche Bank
01.2016 - 01.2019

Technical Architect

Capsilon India
01.2015 - 01.2016

Senior Consultant

GlobalLogic India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2005 - 01.2015

MCA -

MD University

BCA -

MD University
TARUN KUMAR