* Result-oriented professional with experience of over 18 years in software development using Agile, Scrum & Waterfall Model across Financial Services industry * Excellent exposure of working across Finance in front office and back office applications (Equities, Market making), Telecom (3G, RNC) domain * Experience working in Aristocrat technologies, CitiCorp Services (Citibank), Publicis (Formerly Sapient Corp), Genpact (Formerly Headstrong) * Technology Enthusiast * C++, Java (Core), Python, Storm & kafka * Impressive success in software engineering management roles involving architecture, design, development, enhancement and delivery to production of software products * Provided technical direction to build quality products; scaled them to billions of transactions with millions of customers & ~0 defects per release. * Proficient in implementing Waterfall/Agile Methodologies to add value to the deliverables; planned for daily stand-ups, reviews, release product and sprint backlog grooming & sprint demos * Excellent exposure of supporting software development activities and managed all operational activities related to DevOps process like CI/CD and dockerization of product * Hands-on experience of working in design, BDD, TDD (test driven development), QA Automation, implementation and maintenance of High Frequency and Low Latency model pricing and trading platforms * Spearheaded software development lifecycle activities including requirement analysis, finalization of specifications, design, testing, change management, issues control resolution, cost management, quality management and various other cross-functional activities * Forward-focused and Technology enthusiast IT professional with skills in end-to-end project planning and implementation from scope management, activity sequencing, effort & cost estimation, risk analysis to quality management in line with industry best practices