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Vivekanand Vinod Pandey

Vivekanand Vinod Pandey

Pune

Summary

Lead Full Stack Engineer with 10+ years of experience delivering enterprise-grade banking, compliance, and financial platforms. Proven expertise in .NET Core/.NET 6+, Angular, SQL Server, Azure & AWS, with a strong focus on legacy modernization, cloud-native architecture, CI/CD automation, and Agile delivery. Experienced technical leader collaborating with global stakeholders to build secure, scalable, and high-availability systems.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

C11 Officer – Software Engineer / Technical Lead

Citi Bank
Pune
09.2023 - Current
  • Leading Agile delivery for a microservices-based global credit validation and trading compliance platform, supporting 1M+ trade and credit validation events per day, and contributing to ~10–15% improvement in business processing efficiency through optimized validation flows.
  • Spearheaded a comprehensive security overhaul by applying OWASP Top 10 principles to remediate critical SAST vulnerabilities identified through Checkmarx. These efforts reduced the overall technical and business risk profile by 20 % and ensured compliance with industry data protection standards.
  • System Reliability & Performance: Transformed application stability by leading an initiative to increase unit testing code coverage from 30% to 90%. This rigorous testing framework significantly enhanced system performance, reduced production defects by 20 %, and enabled faster, more confident deployment cycles.
  • DevSecOps Integration: Integrated Checkmarx and automated testing suites directly into the CI/CD pipeline, establishing security gates that prevented new vulnerabilities from reaching production and ensuring long-term code quality
  • Designed and developed .NET 6 RESTful microservices exposed via Azure API Management (APIM) with Angular frontend for secure and governed API consumption.
  • Implemented centralized API governance, throttling, and security policies using APIM to support internal and downstream consumers.
  • Integrated Azure Application Insights and Azure Monitor for end-to-end observability, enabling proactive monitoring, distributed tracing, and faster incident resolution, reducing production incidents by approximately 25% and technical debt by remediating high and medium security vulnerabilities.
  • Leveraged GitHub Copilot, CitiSquad, and Friday.ai AI-assisted development tools to improve developer productivity, code quality, and sprint velocity.
  • Utilized Friday.ai insights to improve story estimation and quality scores, contributing to higher sprint predictability and delivery confidence.
  • Created and managed high-quality JIRA user stories, tasks, and defects, ensuring clear acceptance criteria and smooth sprint execution within Citi Agile frameworks.
  • Implemented complex business logic for credit limit validation, temporary credit lines, and utilization calculations ensuring regulatory compliance.
  • Acted as Technical Lead and SPOC, collaborating with business, risk, credit, QA, UAT, and production support teams.
  • Provided production support for mission-critical trading systems, driving incident management, RCA, and preventive improvements.

Software Specialist / Application Architect

LTI (Larsen & Toubro Infotech)
Mumbai
07.2021 - 08.2023
  • Architected and delivered microservices-based enterprise access recertification and compliance platforms across two full SDLC cycles.
  • Designed cloud-native .NET Core microservices integrated through Azure API Management (APIM) to enable secure, scalable, and reusable APIs.
  • Implemented centralized logging, metrics, and health monitoring using Azure Application Insights and Azure Monitor, improving system reliability and audit readiness, and reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) by ~30%.
  • Built event-driven and asynchronous processing using Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and AWS Lambda for background workflows and integrations.
  • Implemented Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines with containerized builds, enabling predictable and automated enterprise releases.
  • Defined hybrid cloud integration patterns leveraging Azure and AWS, ensuring security, scalability, and compliance.
  • Enforced secure coding practices using SAST (Checkmarx) and OWASP guidelines as part of CI pipelines, remediating security vulnerabilities and reducing long-term technical debt by ~30%.
  • Mentored development teams, conducted architecture/design reviews, and resolved complex cross-team technical challenges.
  • Delivered compliance dashboards and audit reporting using Power BI, supporting access reviews for 10,000+ users across 200+ enterprise applications.

Senior Software Engineer / Application Architect

Xanthus Software Solutions
Mumbai
01.2018 - 07.2021
  • Architected and owned end-to-end design of PlanGuru Online, a multi-tenant financial planning and forecasting SaaS platform.
  • Built scalable backend services using .NET Core, EF Core, and Dapper, supporting long-term (10-year) financial projections.
  • Designed REST APIs enabling income statements, balance sheets, cash flow forecasting, and custom business drivers.
  • Developed Angular-based UI with advanced data visualization for complex financial modeling.
  • Implemented secure secrets management, monitoring, and performance optimizations for high-volume workloads.

Application Developer

Plexitech Technology
Mumbai
12.2016 - 01.2018
  • Developed web applications using ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, Angular, and JavaScript.
  • Secured driver data by configuring S3 Bucket Policies and IAM roles for image uploads, ensuring 100% compliance with data protection standards while maintaining high-speed access for verified users
  • Streamlined driver onboarding by integrating an automated S3-based image processing pipeline, resulting in a 60 % increase in team productivity and a significant reduction in manual verification tasks.

Software Developer

Eyerise Technology
Mumbai
11.2015 - 12.2016
  • Utilized Agile methodologies to manage project timelines and deliverables.
  • Participated in team meetings to discuss project status and roadblocks.
  • Debugged code to identify errors and fix them efficiently.
  • Created applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other programming languages.

Education

Master of Computer Applications (MCA) -

NCRD Sterling Institute
Mumbai
01.2016

Skills

  • NET Core 8, MVC, Rest API ,Microservices
  • Angular 14 ,React
  • Security: OWASP Top 10, SAST, Checkmarx, Vulnerability Remediation, Threat Modeling
  • Quality: Unit Testing, Code Coverage (90%), CI/CD Security Gates, TDD (Test-Driven Development)
  • Risk Management: Technical Risk Mitigation, Business Impact Analysis, Compliance
  • AWS: Amazon S3, AWS Lambda (for image processing), S3 Bucket Policies,IAM ,Secret Manager,SQS,SNS,EC2,API Gateway
  • Azure: App Service, Function,App insight,AAD, Logic App,APIM
  • 3rd Party integration : Servie Now,Quickbook ,Xero API, Recurly
  • CI/CD pipeline management
  • Secure coding practices
  • Agile project management
  • Performance optimization
  • Technical mentoring
  • NUnit framework

Certification

• AWS Partner – Cloud Economics Certification
• AWS Partner – Technical Certification

Timeline

C11 Officer – Software Engineer / Technical Lead

Citi Bank
09.2023 - Current

Software Specialist / Application Architect

LTI (Larsen & Toubro Infotech)
07.2021 - 08.2023

Senior Software Engineer / Application Architect

Xanthus Software Solutions
01.2018 - 07.2021

Application Developer

Plexitech Technology
12.2016 - 01.2018

Software Developer

Eyerise Technology
11.2015 - 12.2016

Master of Computer Applications (MCA) -

NCRD Sterling Institute
Vivekanand Vinod Pandey