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Product Manager | Agentic AI | Data Governance | SAFe 6 POPM

About

Senior product leader with 16+ years driving platform strategy for enterprise-scale, regulated data platforms — the reliability, traceability and governance disciplines. As Product Owner for a $250M multi-year regulatory transformation at Citi, migrated a legacy monolith to a modern microservices platform. Built metadata-driven governance frameworks and unified diagnostic interfaces, and defined OKRs spanning data quality, reliability, traceability and explainability for 300+ enterprise users. Completed IIT Madras's Agentic AI programme (agent monitoring, tracing with Langfuse, evaluation with DeepEval) and hold an AI Empowered SAFe 6 POPM certification; an MBA elective in Business Process Management underpins a process-first approach to operational excellence.

Location

Pune Division

AI stack

langchain

langfuse

langsmith

mcp

ChatGPT

Flowise

Work experience

Vice President - Regulatory Reporting | Data Governance | BCBS 239 at Citi, Oct 2022 - Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Pune District, • Owned product strategy and OKRs (data quality, release reliability, efficiency, traceability, explainability, regulatory responsiveness) for a $250M multi-year regulatory reporting transformation serving 300+ finance and risk stakeholders • Led a 30-member engineering organization to migrate a legacy monolith onto a modern Azure-based, API-driven microservices, event driven architecture generating multi-format outputs (PDF, XML, XBRL) • Defined a metadata-driven, BCBS239-aligned schema and access-control framework for self-serve rule/threshold configuration, and built a unified diagnostics interface (variance analysis, drill-down, lineage), lifting analytics productivity ~50% • Paired Manifest Manager with Azure DevOps/Monitor for release governance during the migration • Replaced legacy ETL with a Java/Spark rule engine ($5M+ annual savings) • Enabled threshold alerting and Top-N/lineage traceability, cutting manual adjustments ~60%

Assistant Vice President at Citi, Jan 2020 - Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Lead Business Analyst, Global Capital Markets Regulatory Platforms (SPIDER & LOPR) # Global Compliance Platform: Led transformation of a global Disclosure of Interest reporting platform for equity and derivatives - with consolidation of regional applications into global platform for Disclosure of Interest, Large Options reporting (LOPR) , US reports (Poison Pill, Reg-K, Section 13F); addressed data retention compliance and multi-regulator corrective action plans (FED, FDIC, FINRA). # Jurisdiction Rule Configuration: Delivered web-based maker-checker self-service solution - replacing 13-tab manual excel upload process; improving efficiency by 70%. This solution allowed business to configure jurisdiction specific rules for securities in scope, netting, aggregation rules and manage threshold alerts enabling jurisdiction specific compliance monitoring and timely regulatory filings. # Data Retention Architecture: Developed hybrid storage strategy with Oracle Cloud (RDBMS) for mission-critical data, Hive for historical archives; ensured compliance with SEC (10 years), RBI (5 years) requirements and reduced storage cost by ~80%. # Migration of Business Intelligence layer from Business Objects to MicroStrategy: Developed optimized canned reports and intelligent cubes, and improved performance of key compliance reports (e.g., US Bank Reg-K, Sec13F).

Senior Business Analyst at Citi, Nov 2018 - Dec 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos, Pune Area, India, As a Senior Business Analyst, I worked closely with compliance, regulatory policy, and engineering teams to translate complex regulatory requirements into a configurable and scalable product architecture for Disclosure of Interest reporting across equities, derivatives, and private equity holdings, while also supporting jurisdiction-specific requirements such as U.S. Large Option Position Reporting (LOPR). The key OKRs involved improving audit traceability, threshold monitoring, data retention governance, and jurisdictional rule engine.

Business Intelligence Consultant at InfoCepts, Jan 2013 - Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Nagpur Area, India, • Managed end-to-end BI solutions for AMGEN, AC Nielsen, NBC Universal; developed "STP Insights" mobile dashboard for bank payment systems performance tracking • Developed mobile dashboard MVP i.e. “STP Insights” - providing multiple views of Straight Through Processing performance of banks electronic payment systems & breakdown of reasons for STP failures

Lead Business Analyst at Tata Consultancy Services, Mar 2012 - Jan 2013 · 11 mos, Mumbai Area, India, Led a 12-member team to deliver UAT for Global PayPlus, Citi’s payment processing system deployed across 11 APAC countries, overseeing test case design/approval and process re-engineering to remove redundancies. Worked on analysis of ISO2022 MX messages corresponding to MT series such as pacs.008 message for MT 103/102 and pacs.009 for MT 200/202. Managed end-to-end validation of key SWIFT messages (MT103, MT202, MT400, MT900, MT910).

Research Analyst at Indcap Advisors Pvt. Ltd., Aug 2011 - Oct 2011 · 3 mos, New Delhi Area, India, Research and Analysis of major Private Equity transactions (since 2009) in India by studying the Structures adopted to execute the transactions, Regulatory challenges and comparison with similar deals carried outside India. Highlight key aspects for effective structuring of PE investments and development in regulatory environment for prospective PE investments in India.

Consultant at Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd, Aug 2007 - Aug 2010 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Pune/Singapore, Project 1 (Pune) * Worked as Offshore Developer for Barclays Bank’s project called Global Liquidity Manager (GLM) which is built on Global Payplus platform. I was integral member of development team and the production support team and worked extensively on implementation of MT series messages via IBM MQ and bulk submission via IBM NDM via SFTP. * Developed solutions for business changes and defect fixes required by client, testing the solutions in simulated environment and delivering the tested solutions to onsite team for deployment on bank’s live environments Project 2 (Pune) * Worked as solution architect for Bank of Ireland’s Core Banking Service project to prepare logical message flows, implement and test the business logic using POC’s for implementing ISO20022 MX messages such as pacs.008, pacs.009 * Prepared design documents for the solutions for approval by client Project 3 (Singapore) * Worked On-Deputation in Singapore as Onsite-Developer cum Production Engineer on a technology migration project for Citibank Singapore’s application called Settlement Delivery Engine * Handled additional responsibilities such as client requirement gathering, preparing project estimates, documentation of Business Requirements, continual monitoring and maintenance of live environment i.e. bank’s systems

Education

Executive Education, Agentic AI and Applications, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Executive Education, Fintech Innovations: From Blockchain to AI, Indian School of Business