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title: "Hitesh Garg - Engineering Manager in Pune District | Tal"
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# Hitesh Garg on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Manager

## About

As an Engineering Manager at Mastercard, I lead and empower a team of engineers to build and enhance the Global Benefits Platform under Cardholder Services Program\. I have 17\+ years of experience in software applications analysis, design, development, and delivery, with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science\. Leading the development teams to create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market\. Hire and trained diverse talent for same\. Also Interacts with product managers, product implementation team, engineering leaders, software developers and business operations team on the definition and delivery of highly scalable and secure solutions\. I specialize in Java application development, Microservices application development, Event driven application development, Web application development, SpringBoot, Kafka, MongoDB, Oracle, OpenShift, PCF, Jenkins CI/CD, and other Agile, Cloud, and DevOps technologies\. I had also done classroom trainings on big data, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, and NoSQL\.

## Location

Pune District

## AI stack

claude code

github copilot

## Work experience

Engineering Manager at Mastercard, Dec 2022 \- Present · 3 yrs 11 mos, Pune City, Building & Enhancing Global Benefits Platform under Cardholder Services Program

Engineering Lead at Barclays, Apr 2019 \- Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 9 mos, Pune City, Worked as Engineering Lead/Manager for Global Fraud ID&V Platform and Development Services

Project Lead at L&T Infotech / LTI, Sep 2016 \- Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Pune/Pimpri\-Chinchwad Area, Worked as Senior Java Developer/Technical Lead for Citibank Projects

Senior Consultant at Saama, Sep 2015 \- Sep 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo, Pune/Pimpri\-Chinchwad Area, Worked as senior developer for an international FMCG client Project\. Trained on Big Data,Hadoop,Hive,Pig,NoSql

Associate\-Projects at Cognizant, Jan 2013 \- Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Pune Area, India, Worked as Senior Java Developer for JPMC projects\.

Systems Engineer at TATA CONSULTING SERVICES, Dec 2009 \- Jan 2013 · 3 y 1 mo, Mumbai

## Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, samrat ashok technological institute

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