Vikas Veerapur
Engineering Leader
Bengaluru
Summary
Seasoned engineering leader with more than two decades of experience in software development and management. Proven track record in leading large distributed engineering teams in a wide variety of technology domains, building highly talented teams and driving innovation.
Over the past 2 decades, Vikas has lead engineering projects in Wholesale lending, Post Trade, Cash Management, Core Banking, Payment Processing, Clearing & Settlements and Regulatory reporting. From programming in Java to designing/architecting reusable components in a distributed system using Microservices, Micro Frontend architecture based on well proven architectural and design patterns in both Public cloud using AWS and hybrid/on-prem ecosystem to blockchain technologies setting up private permissioned networks to programming in solidity. Extensive experience in setting-up high performing engineering teams from the scratch to deliver projects at scale and speed leveraging global distributed teams and agile methodology.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Vice President
Citigroup Services Private Limited
01.2023 - Current
- Built a high-performing team of over 20 engineers from the ground up to drive the digitization of the wholesale lending technology space in order to meet consent order and regulatory commitments.
- Designed and developed various core foundational capabilities in the form of libraries and services to enable seamless adoption by various workstreams developed basen on business functions.
- Led cross-functional teams for the successful completion of major projects, that leverages core services to support various user personas including bankers, underwriters, transaction managers, collateral managers and loan operations.
Vice President
JPMorgan Chase
02.2016 - 01.2023
- Lead & designed domain driven micro services for Payments processing platforms as solutions architect migrating the legacy systems called Stratus & Tandem into AWS - EKS services.
- Created & lead a platform team in PTT space to decompose a monolith to domain services using central orchestrator, worked on design, architecture, build of several of these services/library using the 12 factors
- Delivered an end to end solution to decommission a 25 year old payment system in JPMorgan - CAMS (GTOC milestone - project) Built a new end to end UI + services to create new user facing manual payment system or application. Highly scalable & fault tolerant architecture using micro services via Netflix libraries like Zuul as an API gateway, Eureka for - service registry etc.
- Lead & managed team along with wider teams/stakeholders to deliver the Intraday Matching Engine for Cash Management Business Operations end to end.
Senior Application Developer
JPMorgan Chase
02.2013 - 01.2016
- Consent order delivered across all payment systems for Sanction Screening within JPM to meet the goal of having single case management system as directed by a regulator.
- Explored Tableau 8.1 for dashboard reports to build strategic reporting system. Serverless Architectures - AWS Lambda.
- Research, strategize methodologies around Blockchain design, implementation & deployment in public cloud (AWS). Extensive POCs on blockchain technologies to create distributed application for Trade Matching & multi-lateral Compression (TMC)business use case for Executing Brokers/Custodians/Asset Managers etc.
- Extensive performance analysis of the distributed app involving blockchain infrastructure/components to meet the non- functional business requirements.
- Design of off-chain processing & on-chain data storage & distribution type of architecture for TMC. Exploration on various open-source utility tools like Quorum-Maker with Geth & Constellation processes inside Docker container.
Assistant Manager
Wipro Technologies
08.2011 - 04.2012
- Delivered new platform/solution to Lloyds banking group for implementation of FATCA (Foreign TAx Compliance Act) as regulated by IRS in the US.
- Worked on a application used as a decision making tool for the Portfolio Managers of SSgA to manage their funds on a day-today basis. PMs use this application to compare the portfolio funds vs the benchmark provided by vendors like YeildBook, Citi.
Consultant
Goldman Sachs
11.2009 - 08.2011
- Worked on strategic migration project to deliver solutions on to new architecture to handle flows generating regulatory reports like OATS (Order Audit Train System of FINRA) in order to improve the overall time to market new report generation & address capacity concerns.
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
04.2006 - 11.2009
- Worked as a Consultant to JP Morgan Chase across multiple locations UK (London & Glasgow), US (Houston, NY) for multiple applications within the Equities Middle Offices. Built a new system DOME for matching JPM order vs. Client Allocations in order to improve the overall STP & increase operational efficiency by reducing the manual touch points.
- Developed & supported various applications dealing with client confirmations and reporting for JPMorgan Chase
Assistant Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2004 - 04.2006
- Worked with Tata Research Development & Design Center to develop & maintain a in-house built tool called ASSENT which is a code checking tool for JAVA.
- Developed a Evidence Preservation System for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF), US to avoid exaggerated awards account spoliation and protect reputation of BNSF Railway by preserving evidence to ensure integrity & uniformity and timeliness of the evidence related to the incidents.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
Belgaum, Karnataka 09.1999 - 09.2003
Skills
Java Programming, Spring, SpringBoot, Microservices
AWS (Public cloud), Red Hat OpenShift, GAIA (Private cloud), GKP, K8S, Serverless architectures
Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Oracle Exadata
UI technologies, Angular, Micro Frontends
AMPS - Streams/Queues, Kafka, JMS, MQ Series, Active MQ, WMQ
Visual Source Safe, Subversion, Sonar, Clear case, CVS, GitHub, BitBucket, GitStash
Fircosoft V4 - FMF, FFF, Fircosoft Continuity Pega API, Fircosoft V5 FMF, Utilities for List & Rule Management, Fircosoft V56 - Stripping, Pairing, Manual Decision, Workflow accelerator
Quorum - JPMorgan Private Permissioned Blockchain implementation, Ethereum, smart contract programming - Solidity, WEB3J
Junit, Fitnesse, Cucumber BDD, SOAP UI, PostMan
Event Driven Architecture, workflow based systems
Affiliations
Expert Engineer Program (2016) part of elite group of technologists within JP Morgan Chase
Timeline
Senior Vice President
Citigroup Services Private Limited
01.2023 - Current
Vice President
JPMorgan Chase
02.2016 - 01.2023
Senior Application Developer
JPMorgan Chase
02.2013 - 01.2016
Assistant Manager
Wipro Technologies
08.2011 - 04.2012
Consultant
Goldman Sachs
11.2009 - 08.2011
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
04.2006 - 11.2009
Assistant Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2004 - 04.2006
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
09.1999 - 09.2003
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