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# Nishant Gulgulia on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Manager@AWS Opensearch

## About

Accomplished Engineering Leader with 17\+ years of experience leading large, cross\-functional teams and delivering high\-impact technology solutions at AWS, Yahoo, and Capital One\. Proven ability to align complex engineering initiatives with business goals, driving cost optimization and operational excellence while scaling mission\-critical systems\. Passionate about building inclusive, high\-performing teams and fostering a culture of mentorship, resilience, and innovation that translates ambitious ideas into measurable outcomes\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

kiro

openai

## Work experience

Engineering Manager, AWS Opensearch at Amazon Web Services \(AWS\), May 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering Manager, AWS Virtual Private Cloud \(VPC\) at Amazon Web Services \(AWS\), Oct 2022 \- May 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos, Virginia, United States

Engineering Manager @Security at Yahoo, Dec 2021 \- Sep 2022 · 10 mos, Virginia, United States

Engineering Leader, Software Engineering at Capital One, Jun 2016 \- Nov 2021 · 5 yrs 6 mos, Virginia, United States, • Building modern extensible platform for Account and Transaction data for the enterprise\. This platform standardizes field\-level raw data produced by a platform into logical, canonical form usable across teams and LOBs\. • Re\-engineering COTS \(Commercial of the Shelf\) applications on cloud to gain on resiliency and availability\. Developed an automated process for the rehydration of these applications which resulted in significant time saving for multiple development teams\. • Effectively lead the initiative to build different compliance processes and infrastructure checks using serverless technology to run as part of the enterprise pipeline guaranteeing the compliance of all applications within the enterprise as per cloud governance and standards\. • Worked with multiple business and technical teams to come up with strategies and solutions to automate repetitive, time consuming, manual tasks\. Organized a hackathon event for business to introduce and learn the RPA \(Robotic Automation Process\) tool while leading a team of developers to automate various month end financial reports\. • Design and lead the development of a modern and powerful platform for Centralized AML Navigation\. This platform helped combine multiple legacy tools which in turn reduced the time taken to investigate each case by 50%\. Worked with business to create a roadmap for the platform\. Played significant role in influencing multiple teams within the organization to adopt Acceptance Test Driven Development\.

Senior Software Engineer at Bank of America, Apr 2012 \- May 2016 · 4 yrs 2 mos, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, • Analyze the business requirements and document the development process\. • Developed RESTful APIs for web services using Spring Framework\. • Developed unit test/integration test cases using Junit/Mockito\. • Creating tables/functions/stored procedures/SQL queries in SQL and Oracle databases\. • Worked with the infrastructure team to prepare the application environment for Production and Non\- Production environments\.

Software Engineer at Citi India, Aug 2008 \- Mar 2012 · 3 yrs 8 mos, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, • Involved in development of credit reporting application using J2EE technology: Java, Servlets, Hibernate, and JDBC which included development in all tiers\. • Developed Presentation layer with JSP, HTML, XML, XSL, CSS, and JavaScript\. • Used AJAX for request response processing without reloading the complete page\. • Involved in development of Action, Service and DAO layer by using Struts 1\.x\. • Performed major database migration from DB2 to Oracle\. • Involved in Configuration Management project with responsibilities like creation of Build/Install scripts, Performing Builds/Install in the environment, issue resolving in the SDLC boxes\.

## Education

Master's degree, Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana\-Champaign

Bachelor of Technology \(BTech\), Computer Science and Enginnering, National Institute of Technology Silchar

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