Nishant Maheshwari

• Technical Delivery Manager in BFSI Apps and Infra.
• Owning Digital Bank Transaction and Services boat size Change/Solution , development and build for all UOB markets and driving end to end delivery for Front end Mobile clients and Experience APIs( Team size of 20+ members and annual budget of 2+ million ).
• Performance improvement and Information Security assurance for Digital Bank Client( IOS/Android apps) and back end APIs( microservices based).

Role : Technical Delivery Lead cum Scrum of Scrum for Corebank Domain API (GAPI), 100x Finacle (core banking improvements and scalability)

Key Responsibilities:

• End to End Project and Delivery Planning , Management and Execution with Agile based "You build and You Run model"
• Code lifecycle and versioning management , establishing framework for Continuous Integration and Continuous delivery with Test Driven Development Approach.
• Scrum of Scrum and delivery lead of 4 parallel running scrum cells viz API revamp, batch performance optimization , devops and release automation , DB CPU Optimizations.
• Senior Management/CTO reporting and presentation for continuous improvement and Delivery/Budget/RISK status.
• Business case preparation and budget monitoring and forecast.

Key Accomplishment

• Successful delivery of highly available, resilient ,autoscaling and shrinkable domain APIs suite(RPC Avro /REST-JSON microservices on Tanzu PaaS) of CASA, Fixed Deposit and CIS and Signatory domain which asynchronously stream( via Kafka) corebank data in real time to NoSQL ( aerospike) data store and hence abstracting core-engines resources as a result saved resource utilization and hence licensing cost , at the same time achieving high performance throughput from query-oriented data model of NoSQL datastore fetch the result in less than 100ms.

• Successful delivery for Infrastructure and framework ( including HA, CICD with observability dashboard ) for mainframe java APIs ( ZIIP liberty services ) , resulting in MIPS saving of mainframe which paves the path for enterprise wide strategic direction of mainframe offload/sunset roadmap of organization.

• End to end discovery , design , development and delivery of realtime IPO subscription and health monitoring dashboard on Grafana.

• API Performance improvement: Had brought down 99 percentile of all CoreBank native APIs of INDIA , INDONESIA under 1000ms ( 40+ APIs each market , among which some of the APIs were taking as much as 12000 ms)

• CoreBank EOD batch optimization, achieved end of day batch duration to less than 4 hours, irrespective of pre-holiday, post-holiday, month end by implementing frame work for EOD batch optimization for CoreBank Finacle.

• Horizontally scale CBC- UNISER services for parallel processing, HA and blue-green deployment, vertical scaling to elastically scale and shrink per varying traffic , all TCP based CBC API of Finacle were brought down under 500ms response ( from 2000+ ms).This helps in cost saving as sustaining with same hardware even 300% increase in volume from last 1.5 years .

• Architectural change to transaction engine to achieve high TPS of 25 TPS transaction.

• Release automation for all deployment artifacts of Finacle (product patches, sqls, scripts and environment properties )

• Offline/warm data base implementation (Kafka streaming) for reporting and handoff file extractions, this had brought down over all CPU utilization to 8-12 % and helped save 1.5m per annum in IT hardware cost for only 1 market , It have further potential to offload non-core downstream services from core banking engine with min change using established framework.

• Observability: Core banking logging and ingestion framework delivery for near real time monitoring, analytics and alerting ( ELK ) .

• End to End delivery of DBS CHINA WeChat banking at Finacle China ( DBS i-wealth).

• Digibank enhancement and migration for ANZ merger to DBS CHINA and INDONESIA

Role : Delivery Governance and execution for Mobile and Tablet banking for all ASAPC markets of Citibank.

Key Responsibilities

• Delivery Governance of high volume agile based Digital banking (Mobile and Tablet) projects (GoToCommon)
• Implementation Planning and Execution including Dry Run/Mock Run.
• Regulatory and Web security related solutioning wrt to dynamic mobile markets of Blackberry, IOS, Android apps.
• Management/PMO reporting, escalations, and stake holder management
• Delivery Partners ( external and internal ) coordination like EPS( Massaging Bus) , CTI ( Run the bank PROD Infra team) , Kony Labs( Key Application Vendor Partner) ,regional EBIZ ( key Stakeholder ), AASTOCK , SYBASE, AKAMAI etc and to drive them for common consensus.
• Internal Process Engineering/Team Building and support to Dev/Project leads/DevOps/System Analyst colleagues.

Key Accomplishment

• Application Code Build Automation using ant/maven integrated with SVN.
• Deployment automation* for citi Mobile servers using jenkins build simulator and SSD( Seed+Stage+Deploy enhancement on ChangeManDS BMC tool to deploy multiple artifacts/VMs parallel ) for third party( KONY) code packages

* above automation been proven a paradigm shift to rollout efficiency of agile based implementation model

• Mobile App platform upgrade across all ASPAC markets: kony 4.x( lua) to 5.x( java script base))
• Webserver migration to IBM HTTP Server( IHS ) from Solaris Iplanet across ASPAC markets
• OS migration to LINUX from AIX across ASPAC markets
• WAS8.5 migration for application servers across ASPAC markets
• Mobile APP Product migration to inhouse product Global Mobile ( HTML5 based hybrid Mobile platform ) from Kony across ASPAC markets, Global Mobile** been appreciated by all BIZ stake holders in terms of their customer reach and cost efficiency, product had remarkable feature with respect to customer interaction (UX) like biometric( fingerprint based login) etc.
• Strategize and Lead implementation/transformation of SG/TH/VN/HK citi mobile with ZERO downtime**, this been accolades as key achievement for citi consumer technology( GCT) with respect to time to market KPI.

** Global Mobile had won award for 2015 best project in terms of innovation /customer feedback and zero down time rollout for TCS APAC

Role : Project Manager and SME ( IBGT Interfaces )

Key Responsibilities.

• Managing User requirement (URs) including UR prioritizations process and life cycle with BIZ Users, technology partners and vendors.
• Funds/Budget allocation, management and forecasting
• Strategize interface approach, Solution Architecture, and requirement of the project (UR)
• Verifying and approving delivery documents such as FSD, IFD and Change docs(CR)
• Coordinating with downstream and upstream systems teams for IBGT Core Banking system (FINACLE) like ATM( IST ) / Internet Banking / IMEX / MUREX(FX deal booking system)/ RET-TZ(FX rates and deal booking system)/ EWSS(AML system) /Financial Consolidator(MIS system for Senior management and BIZ users)/Factor pro (factoring system by KPMG) etc
• End to end project Implementation and Post Live Support, DR (Disaster recovery) setup and BAU handover.

Key Accomplishment

• Implemented key industrial projects like IMPS INDIA, ALIPAY CHINA, PBOC IC CHIP Card CHINA, G3 phase1 Singapore, NGRTGS INDIA
• Implementation of major strategic program and DBS branding promotions projects like Internet Banking INDONESIA, Push and Pull estmt TAIWAN and CHINA,

Role : Lead JFP Production Support , Country Configuration and Infra/deployment lead, JFP Regional Application Developer.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading ASPAC JFP (CitiBank Online and MobileBanking) production Support team for day-to-day “Run the Bank" activities including resource and Capacity Planning for Production servers and patch management including EOS /EOL.
• E2E Project Management and delivery of small project (less than 150md)
• Development and SIT support for regional onlinebanking web application on Java Financial Service Platform as JFP regional application developer,