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
Emphasis on independent judgment, architectural governance, and business-aligned outcomes in regulated environments.
Core Banking Replatforming — Cloud & Caching Strategy
- 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.
Enterprise Client Onboarding & Integration Enablement
PCI/PII Safeguards — Secure Logging & Data Protection
- 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
Tokenization & Wallet Integrations — COF / VPAN / Wallets
Credit Suisse (Cognizant) — Legacy to Microservices Modernization