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# Bodhayan Guha Thakurta on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Leader \| Digital Transformation & Cloud Modernization \| Brokerage & Capital Markets Technology \| Product & Platform Engineering \| Enterprise Architecture \| Regulatory Technology \| AI\-Enabled Software Delivery

## About

Technology Leader with 16\+ years of experience in Banking, Financial Services, and Capital Markets, specializing in Engineering Leadership, Cloud Transformation, Product Ownership, and Platform Modernization\. Currently leading a team of 12\+ engineers at Fidelity Investments, delivering scalable brokerage and margin platforms while partnering with senior stakeholders to drive technology strategy and business outcomes\. Proven track record of delivering measurable impact, including $4M annual savings, $15M licensing cost avoidance, 65% faster processing through cloud modernization, and significant operational cost reductions\. Passionate about building high\-performing teams, mentoring future leaders, and delivering innovative, cloud\-native solutions that drive business growth\. Core Expertise: Engineering Leadership \| Cloud Transformation \| Product Ownership \| Banking & Capital Markets \| AWS \| Microservices \| Big Data \| Platform Modernization \| Stakeholder Management \| Agile Delivery \| Technology Strategy \| Team Development

## Location

Chennai

## AI stack

antigravity

claude code

claude

githubcopilot

## Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager at Fidelity Investments, Jan 2024 \- Present · 2 y 7 mo, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Lead a high\-performing team of 12 engineers for core brokerage books of record and margin systems — the central record\-keeping system for all customer activities, processing \~140 million trade and non\-trade activities; built the team from the ground up, personally hiring and grooming 8 of the 12 engineers\. Engage regularly with VP/SVP\-level product and architecture stakeholders to define technical direction and NFR standards; translate business strategy into engineering roadmaps and drive cross\-functional alignment across product, architecture, and delivery teams\. Build out of high throughput low latency Tier 0 brokerage holding data APIs for both B2B and C2B with multiple personas using cutting edge distributed tech\. Build out and migration of critical large start of day loads for \~550 million data using scalable AWS EMR framework for 65 percent reduction in load times to enable early open of business\.

Technical Product Manager at Fidelity Investments, May 2020 \- Dec 2024 · 4 yrs 8 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Served as Product Owner for a portfolio of products undergoing modernization and cloud\-based workload transformation\. •Led new product build\-outs across Customer Communications and Reconciliation & Compliance product lines, processing high\-volume reconciliation data via Oracle batch jobs and scripts across enterprise\-scale datasets\. •Partnered with business stakeholders to drive enterprise\-wide paper elimination initiatives across 40 million customer accounts spanning Retail and Custody lines of business; delivered $4M in savings through address change notification digitisation, tracked at BU level via Power BI dashboards and Snowflake views\. •Built and maintained end\-to\-end reconciliation systems ensuring SEC Rule 10b\-10 regulatory reporting compliance across multiple LOBs — spanning customer activity initiation through document delivery confirmation for millions of reportable transactions\. •Spearheaded Terraform adoption along with CI/CD enhancements for the product area, bringing accelerated development and validation synergies; promoted test\-driven development using automated API testing via Karate\. •Core member of BU\-level Tech Community of Practice; drove resolution of cross\-domain engineering challenges, groomed reusable patterns adopted across product areas, and executed TLM Ship It Day activity to manifold throughput for C&M initiatives\. •Managed stakeholder engagement and negotiations for new capability pitches, approach proposals, and investment decisions\.

Technical Lead at Fidelity Investments, Mar 2016 \- May 2020 · 4 yrs 3 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, •Drove delivery of the foundational cloud\-first brokerage platform using Spring Boot and cloud\-native technologies; co\-created HLD and LLD artifacts for a revamped customer onboarding journey in collaboration with architecture stakeholders\. •Championed modern engineering patterns and standards within the team through Developer and Standards Guilds\. •Delivered a new Big Data platform for GIPS\-compliant brokerage performance reporting, replacing a vendor\-provided tool with $15M in licensing costs and accelerating time to market\. •Completed a 4\-month global deputation onsite in the US, leading knowledge transfer of batch processes to onsite counterparts — improving team cohesion and delivery alignment; led a major rewrite of the data pipeline flow that reduced batch execution time by 25%\. •Built a robust data pipeline processing \~100 million transactions and positions within 30 minutes for GIPS\-compliant performance numbers\. •Led TAX team Batch Modernization, migrating MIPS\-intensive transmission workloads to a distributed technology stack; collaborated with IBM to identify and resolve JSR\-352 Batch Framework shortcomings\.

Senior Associate at Cognizant, Dec 2012 \- Mar 2016 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Chennai Area, India, •Led a 5\-member team on onsite deputation to River Woods, Chicago for a critical consumer lending transformation for US Bank \($3\.3 billion\) — one of the first Finacle US integration projects requiring extensive customisations and buildouts\. •Served as SME for personal lending originations; guided design, compliance, and delivery decisions through agile sprint cycles both onsite and offshore\. •On return, led a 12\-member core team and acted as Assistant Lead for a broader 16\-member lending platform delivery group\. •Co\-authored RFP technical solutioning for new business pitches; served as SPOC for Technical, HMP, LEAN, and Delivery Audit functions\. •Expanded an additional Student Loans line of business from a competing service provider, won on the basis of delivery excellence and domain depth demonstrated through the engagement\.

Senior Developer at Cognizant, Aug 2009 \- Dec 2012 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Contributed to a Struts\-based intranet origination platform \(Personal Loans LOB\) for a major US Bank — an end\-to\-end system for loan receipt, decisioning, and disbursal powered by the Fair Isaac Capstone Decision Manager rule engine\. A major revenue earner for the firm with an overall $2 billion personal loan book\. •Led major transformation and enhancement initiatives for the Personal Loans origination platform\. •Participated in the full requirement\-to\-implementation lifecycle for the Student Loans LOB integration\. •Contributed to Dodd\-Frank Act compliance initiatives for the Personal Loans product\. •Championed quality coding standards and drove process improvement initiatives on behalf of the team\.

## Education

Master of Business Administration \- MBA, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/bgtoss

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