Senior Vice President | Swift ISO 20022| Payments Modernization | Transformation - Technology Lead


Pune Division, Maharashtra, India


Bangaon, West Bengal, India

Bangaon, West Bengal, India

Greater Chennai Area





Periyar University
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Steering strategic payment modernization initiatives at Citi, my role as Senior Vice President harnesses over 8 years of leadership in the financial sector, with a focus on high-value payment systems in the APAC region. Our team has pioneered ISO 20022 transformations, contributing to Citi's reputation for excellence in SWIFT Cross Border and RTGS payments. Spearhead successful migration from legacy systems to modern ecosystem, such as employing OpenShift and ECS for containerisation, Kafka for real-time event streaming, MongoDB for scalable data storage, Micro Services architecture for enhanced modularity, leveraging Kojito rule engine as well as collaborating closely . Spearhead successful migration from legacy systems to modern ecosystem, such as employing OpenShift and ECS for containerisation, Kafka for real-time event streaming, MongoDB for scalable data storage, Micro Services architecture for enhanced modularity, leveraging Kojito rule engine as well as collaborating closely with development teams to integrate IPF orchestration product.
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