Field Hockey
Samrat Chakravarty
Engineering Manager
Singapore,73,#01-04, Tampines Ave 1
Summary
Techno-functional Manager, well-versed in managing multiple applications and software development projects on time and within budget. Detail-oriented professional who thrives in a high volume multi-tiered environment. Experience of managing big and small teams of software engineers and providing executive level support to organization growth.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Vice President
Citibank
05.2015 - Current
- Technology team lead for software development projects (Rainbow) for Citibank Latin America (Banamex) and Citibank North America.
- Citibank GCB and IPB Mobile Refresh - Wrote code of APIs for New mobile interface of Citibank Mobile application as well as managed team of 15 Developers to change whole customer journey of Cards (across 8 SEA markets) and Payments (in Singapore) on Citibank Mobile application. Same APIs are consumed by Open Banking Partners too.
- Fix the basics - Identified and solved hidden issues with production to drive business objectives impacting unique 4 thousand customers across 17 markets.
- Citibank 2020 Progress Awards - Runner-up out of 350 teams from 58 locations of Citibank and received grant money of 100k, the project submitted was monitoring of Production issues which decreased number of major incidents by 34% in 2020 comparative to 2019.
- Citibank GCT Fixathon 2021 - Winner in Citibank GCT Fixathon 2021 for delivering a monitoring for Lending products giving end to end visibility on Booking, Error rate and performance of Lending Products.
- Level 3 production support - Lead for API Level 3 production support team managing 12 Developers to fix bugs in Production environment across Tibco and Java microservices in 17 Markets.
- Citibank GCB/IPB Mobile Performance Lead - Established performance goals for Citibank mobile hand to hand with Regional Business for a better performance of functions on Citibank mobile app.
- Big Data Integration - For API journey established connection with EAP/Big Data platform over KAFKA as well as EMS to record all customer journeys to understand customer behavior as well as for MIS reports.
Principal Software Engineer
Tesco
Bengaluru, India, Karnataka
02.2014 - 05.2015
- Interviewed, recruited and trained a team of 5 Software developers in India for Tesco Bank Digital team to start in-house development of work which was outsourced to vendor to save thousand of EUROs to bank.
- Created a mediation layer for middleware services, so that a single endpoint URL will be exposed to all web and mobile channel for all services instead of connecting to different URLs for consuming different web services. This layer was able to consume SOAP as well as JSON incoming requests.
- Lead of digital software development team working on technologies – Tibco suit of products, Java, Oracle, Maven, Ant, Jenkins, Bitbucket and Jira.
Tech Lead
Sapient Consulting Pvt Ltd
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
08.2013 - 01.2014
- Worked on few POCs to present concepts in Integration to management.
- Managed team performance by training, mentoring, disciplining and motivating employees.
Project Lead
L&T InfoTech
Singapore
02.2010 - 08.2013
- Created, delivered and maintained scalable system architecture to support a high-availability intranet site with various internal applications.
- Software development on Tibco products, Java and Oracle using standards like Soap and JSON to develop web services and logically connecting pieces of code for ESB integration layer.
- Worked as Business analyst as per project requirements.
- Planned upcoming deliverable sin advance.
- Reviewed code, merging requests, commenting on possible bottlenecks introduced by developers.
- Communicated with all project stakeholders to make sure no communication gap.
Analyst Programmer
Syntel Ltd
09.2009 - 02.2010
- Performed development and maintenance programming for different IT projects in technologies like Tibco products, Oracle and Core Java.
- Provided report of project deployment status to project management and client managers.
- Worked with Onshore and other team members on high availability web services, support tools and system process analysis/Support and development.
- Participated in design, code reviews.
- Worked with project team members for investigating and correcting software bugs based on the testing results.
Software Engineer
Zensar Technologies private Ltd
01.2008 - 09.2009
- Designing & Development of .XSD schemas, which follow enterprise schema standard.
- Creation, Development & Maintenance of both Inbound and Outbound Web Services using formats like SOAP, JMS, XML, TCP format.
- Played role of both Support person and developer, as and when required.
- Provided trainings on TIBCO/JAVA new team members and mentored and guided them.
- Prepared proper documentation of code developed including Acceptance criteria, service specifications, sapping documents etc.
Education
Master of Computer Applications - Computer Applications
University of Rajasthan
India 08.2004 - 12.2007
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Lachoo Memorial College, Jai Narain Vyas University
India 04.2001 - 04.2004
Skills
Digital & Cloud Transformation, Micro services, API-Dev Portal, Open Banking, Design, Business Adoption
Application Design Development and Implementation
Business Users Requirement Analysis
Service Delivery Management
Production Management
IT Strategy and Architecture
Leadership / People Management
BPM & Workflow
Accomplishments
Technical Certifications :
- Android development.
- Sun certified Java programmer.
- Oracle.
- Tibco.
- AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate.
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate
Technical Knowledge :
- Middleware/Integration - API and ESB.
- Javascript, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap.
- MongoDB.
- Microservices and API development.
- NodeJS.
- Tibco suits of Products.
- Splunk
Self-Driven learning - https://whatsinyourmind.herokuapp.com
Created website:
- UI in EJS with Bootstrap.
- Middleware is nodeJS APIs.
- Backend is nosql db – Mongi DB, by creating free account on Mongo Lab of 500 MB.
- Deployed on Heroku Cloud.
- Features:.
- User can create account, login and write his/her thoughts with pictures.
- Other users can see stories created by any user and if can comment if login.
- Basically, a platform for discussion on different topics.
Interests
Timeline
Vice President
Citibank
05.2015 - Current
Principal Software Engineer
Tesco
02.2014 - 05.2015
Tech Lead
Sapient Consulting Pvt Ltd
08.2013 - 01.2014
Project Lead
L&T InfoTech
02.2010 - 08.2013
Analyst Programmer
Syntel Ltd
09.2009 - 02.2010
Software Engineer
Zensar Technologies private Ltd
01.2008 - 09.2009
Master of Computer Applications - Computer Applications
University of Rajasthan
08.2004 - 12.2007
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Lachoo Memorial College, Jai Narain Vyas University
04.2001 - 04.2004
Field Hockey
- School National Player in Field Hockey.
- Madhya Pradesh (India) State player in Field Hockey.
- Played International Field Hockey as sub junior team in Nehru Cup Tournament.
- University Player in Field Hockey.
Field Hockey
- School National Player in Field Hockey.
- Madhya Pradesh (India) State player in Field Hockey.
- Played International Field Hockey as sub junior team in Nehru Cup Tournament.
- University Player in Field Hockey.