Virendra Bais

• Working as lead Architect, championing Innovation and AI in Credit Risk department, helping generate 40+ ideas, 15+ prototypes, out of which 5+ are in production.
• Instrumental in overhauling Credit Risk Stress Test platform's architecture using Hadoop and Spark, achieving 66% improvement in performance and multiplying scalability. This helps generate more ad-hoc reporting and timely management reports for Credit Risk Stress Testing.
• Led horizontal groups for Innovation and AI in department, creating team of AI practitioners who are building AI solutions which address operational efficiencies in trade flow, reporting to senior management and analysis and assigning of production issues to correct teams, etc.
• Developed core system component with Databricks-like functionalities, retiring a costly SAAS reporting tool and saving company $1 Million annually while significantly enhancing model development process, report turnaround time and scalability.

As a senior architect of the horizontal organization called TAO, was responsible for all the architectural decisions of the assigned department, working with various stakeholders, e.g. client, project managers, developers and tech leads. Following are some major assignments:

Cognizant Lead Architect in Barclays Digital Banking group

• Architected comprehensive digital solution for the mortgage application process, streamlining the transition from lead to customer, enhancing user experience, and significantly reducing processing time by 10 days.
  

Lead Architect for RBS, UK

• Oversaw design and architectural direction of new applications as Lead Architect, guiding a department of 170+ professionals, ensuring innovative and scalable solutions aligned with strategic business goals
• Implemented real time anti malware solution in bank portal, thus ensuring 95% decrease in malware attacks on web portal
• Re-architected main corporate banking portal of the bank from monolith to service- oriented architecture
  

As Java EE and Open source Technology Architecture consultant for Capital Markets and Financial Services group of TCS, provided architecture consultancy, solution architecture creation and design reviews, delivery reviews and consultation to development teams and clients on design, security and architecture of application and led and supported critical deliveries.:

• Lead Architect for project to re-architect, design and rewrite the front-end for Online Brokerage site CIBC Canada , one of the ‘big five' banks of Canada ( URL : https://www.investorsedge.cibc.com/). This was a large and critical delivery for the bank which significantly enhanced its ease of use an brand value.

• TCS iON for Small and Medium Business (SMB) solutions owner: Led Solutioning, Architecture, design, technical implementation of 5 solutions built on SaaS (Software As a Service) architecture
• For McKinsey & Co, proposed, designed and built the most used Web 2.0 based knowledge sharing platform. This platform had resulted in capturing implicit knowledge and sharing it across the organization with ease.
• Built first version of ShipServ.com , a Billion dollar B2B company for Shipping sector, which provides a marketplace for ship operators and their suppliers across the world.