Consulting-Led Engineering Leadership

Experienced Principal Software Engineer and technology leader with over 16 years of expertise in architecting, modernizing, and governing enterprise-scale financial systems across banking and payment ecosystems. Specialized in secure payment architectures, tokenization frameworks, event-driven microservices, and cloud-native transformation using AWS and distributed systems technologies.

Demonstrated leadership in guiding large-scale modernization initiatives, influencing architectural governance, and driving AI/ML-enabled strategies aligned with regulatory and business objectives. Currently serving as a Principal Solutions Engineer in financial services, leading cloud migration efforts, enhancing secure transaction processing systems, and shaping scalable, resilient fintech platforms.

Impact Highlights

~$100M YoY savings $2B+ YoY enablement $20M YoY resilience $3M+ since Dec 2025 PCI/PII protection Cloud modernization

Emphasis on independent judgment, architectural governance, and business-aligned outcomes in regulated environments.

Core Banking Replatforming — Cloud & Caching Strategy

2018–2019 • Oracle ITX → Pivotal Cloud Foundry
~$100M YoY
  • Architectural guidance across database design, caching strategies, messaging/streams, and cloud workloads.
  • Led performance tuning, query optimization, and production-grade monitoring/alerting practices.
  • Focused on reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency in a regulated financial environment.
  • Handled a team of 30+ Members team across divisions.
Architecture diagram: Oracle ITX to Pivotal Cloud Foundry migration with caching, messaging, monitoring
High-level architecture overview (legacy to cloud replatforming) highlighting caching strategy, messaging/streams, observability, and performance considerations.
Proof (Case Study PDF) Performance Observability Cloud Migration

Enterprise Client Onboarding & Integration Enablement

Payments / token flows • Scale & governance
$2B+ YoY

  • Consulting leadership supporting onboarding and integration for critical clients (e.g., PayPal, Venmo, TJX, J.Crew, and others), ensuring secure, scalable transaction processing and reliable partner integrations.
  • Handled a team of 30+ Members across different division and as a integration partner.
  • Architecture diagram: Oracle ITX to Pivotal Cloud Foundry migration with caching, messaging, monitoring
    Paypal Synchrony Integration
    Press Release Integration Architecture Partner Enablement Risk Controls

    PCI/PII Safeguards — Secure Logging & Data Protection

    Security governance • Leakage prevention
    Risk Reduction
    • Built safeguards to prevent PCI/PII exposure across applications and observability pipelines.
    • Reduced risk of sensitive data leakage to logging platforms and downstream systems.
    • Strengthened compliance posture and customer data protection controls.
    • Handled a team of 15+ Members and cordinated with the InfoSecurity Team.

    Resilience Engineering — Cross-Foundation Failover

    Graceful failover • In-flight transaction protection
    ~$20M YoY

  • Enabled graceful failover patterns across platforms to reduce in-flight transaction loss during infrastructure events, using actuator-based health validation and GTM API orchestration to improve continuity and customer experience.
  • Handled a team of 15+ Members and worked as a integration partner for 500+ applications across Synchrony.
  • Reliability Failover Platform Engineering

    Tokenization & Wallet Integrations — COF / VPAN / Wallets

    Enterprise onboarding • Secure token lifecycle enablement
    $30M+ since Oct 2025 Ongoing growth

  • Pivotal in integrating token use cases (COF, VPANs, wallets) and onboarding accounts for OnePayWalmart and other enterprise partners (e.g., Chicos, Sun Country, Venmo, PayPal, Restoration Hardware, and others).
  • Handling a team of 10+ members as integration partner for multiple clients across the board.
  • Architecture diagram: Oracle ITX to Pivotal Cloud Foundry migration with caching, messaging, monitoring
    OnePay Walmart Synchrony Integration
    Press Release Tokenization COF VPAN Wallets Partner Onboarding

    Credit Suisse (Cognizant) — Legacy to Microservices Modernization

    Architecture modernization • Agile enablement

  • Contributed to migrating legacy JAP into independently deployable microservices, enabling faster releases, reduced deployment coupling, improved engineering productivity, and a transition toward Agile delivery practices.
  • Handled a team of 10+ members cordinating the migration effort.
  • Sustained Appriciation Certificates

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    Capgemini - Certification for Caching Migration Capgemini Caching Project

    Appriciation for the Synchrony Cloud Migration Project

    Credit Suisse - Certification for JAP Migration Credit Suisse

    Appriciation for the Credit Suisse Migration Project

    L&T Infotech - as Best Managed Project LnT Best Managed Project

    Appriciation as Best Managed Project

    L&T Infotech - Token of Appriciation LnT Best Managed Project

    Token of Appriciations

    L&T Infotech - Token of Appriciation LnT Best Managed Project

    Token of Appriciations