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Senior Engineering Manager | Payments Technology | AI & Automation | Cloud-Native Platform Modernisation | Data & Operational Resilience | ArhamVijja Certified Parenting Coach (by Passion)

About

I lead engineering transformation at the intersection of payments, data and operational resilience. Across 20 years in technology and financial services, I have helped turn complex, high-volume payment estates into scalable, customer-centric platforms—combining engineering leadership, cloud-backed modernisation, automation and data-informed execution. My experience spans payment order management, instant and international payments, sanctions, fraud, performance engineering, SRE and platform governance. At Barclays, I led systems across 18+ applications and 28 payment channels processing 2M+ daily payments worth £200M+, and managed 20+ engineers supporting 35+ microservices at 500+ TPS. I also delivered an integrated automation framework that reduced non-functional testing cycles by 40%, saved 650+ person-days annually—approximately £140K—and helped improve system fault tolerance and MTTR by 30%. At Commonwealth Bank, I focus on modernising payment data platforms through AI-assisted incident management and root-cause analysis, agent-based engineering productivity, payment-data discovery, workflow automation, event-driven architectures, real-time analytics, CI/CD and resilient engineering governance. I am motivated by building high-performing global teams where human expertise, automation and AI work together to accelerate delivery, manage operational risk and improve customer outcomes. Core Expertise: Payments Technology | Executive Engineering Leadership | AI & Workflow Automation | Cloud-Native Platforms | Event-Driven Architecture | Data Assurance & Real-Time Analytics | CI/CD & Engineering Governance | Operational Resilience | SRE & Chaos Engineering | Global Team Leadership Let’s Connect: Let’s connect to exchange ideas on AI-enabled engineering, payment platform modernisation and resilient digital transformation.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager at Commonwealth Bank, Nov 2025 - Present · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Spearhead the modernisation of large-scale payment data platforms through cloud-backed, API-first and event-driven architectures, including Payments Data Cloud transformation. - Accelerate engineering productivity and digital process optimisation through AI-assisted incident management, root-cause analysis, agent-based solutions, payment-data discovery and workflow automation. - Strengthen data assurance, load assurance, CI/CD governance and operational resilience through real-time payment analytics and data-informed risk and platform decisions.

Vice President, GUI Capability Lead 🚀 Driving Digital Transformation in Corporate Payments at Barclays Corporate Banking, Mar 2024 - May 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, - Pioneered GUI Implementation in the Corporate Payments business unit, enhancing user experience for business operations and RTB (Run The Bank) teams. - Developed in-house GUI capabilities for corporate banking systems, enabling payments search, tracking, replay/reject functionalities, and static data management for a European partner bank solution. - Led cross-team collaboration with business operations and RTB teams, facilitating requirement assessment, regular product demonstrations, and iterative feedback implementation to ensure seamless integration. - Optimized digital workflows by improving accessibility, visibility, and control over payment transactions, elevating operational efficiency for financial stakeholders.

Engineering & Resiliency Lead of Payments Systems at Barclays Corporate Banking, Jan 2023 - Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, - Delivered Payments Order Management systems for NPA, FPS, CHAPS, and BACS with18+ applications processing 2M+ daily payments worth £200M+ for 28 payment channels. - Strengthened resilience for Corporate Make a Payment IBS to safeguard clients during cyber disruption scenarios - Piloted Rubrik's snapshotting tech, achieving 100% protection of critical payment services and reducing recovery/reconciliation from 67 days to 38 hours - Launched GUI capabilities across Corporate Payments, enabling real-time search, tracking, replay/reject, and static data handling for 7+ European partner banks—cutting LIVE recovery time from 11 hours to under 60 minutes - Spearheaded the integration of 7 in-house utilities via Jenkins, Python, Shell Scripting reducing NFT cycles by 40% and saving 650+ man-days annually.

Vice President - NFT (Non-functional) & Transformation Engineering Lead at Barclays Corporate Banking, Jan 2022 - Dec 2023 · 2 yrs, India, - Leading a high-performing NFT Engineering team of 20+ engineers, supporting 35+ microservices that process over 2 million transactions daily (~£200M+ in value), operating at a throughput of 500+ TPS (Transactions Per Second). - Designed and delivered an integrated automation framework using Jenkins, Java, Python, and Shell scripting, incorporating 7 custom in-house utilities to streamline performance, reliability, and failover testing—reducing NFT cycles by 40% and saving 650+ man-days/year (~£140K/year). - Leveraging industry-standard tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, Splunk, and AppDynamics to ensure comprehensive performance and observability across platforms. - Implementing Chaos Engineering principles using tools like Gremlin to proactively simulate infrastructure and network failures—leading to a measurable 30% improvement in system fault tolerance and MTTR (Mean Time to Recovery). - Partnering with cross-functional leads in development, DevOps, and SRE to embed NFT early into the CI/CD pipeline, accelerating release cycles and improving production readiness. - Recognized for building a culture of innovation, quality, and collaboration, resulting in a 25% YoY improvement in team productivity - Led engineering transformation across 25+ critical applications, boosting solution quality and delivery by maintaining >90% code quality, achieving 100% Build/Commit PR integration, and surpassing 80% test automation—resulting in a flawless 100% production release success rate.

Toastmasters Treasurer at Toastmasters International, Sep 2016 - Mar 2017 · 7 mos, Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Senior Consultant at Deloitte, May 2011 - Aug 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos, On-site, - Successfully led performance testing initiatives across diverse domains including finance, healthcare, and US government sector ensuring optimal application scalability and reliability. - Played dual roles as an individual contributor and team lead, managing 3+ high-performing teams across multiple projects. - Delivered performance benchmarks and bottleneck analysis for 20+ mission-critical applications, improving system throughput by up to 40%. - Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate performance testing early in the SDLC, cutting defect detection time by 50%. - Mentored junior engineers and built a knowledge-sharing culture, leading to a 25% improvement in test coverage and efficiency.

Software Development Consultant at Deloitte, May 2008 - Apr 2011 · 3 yrs, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Software Engineer at TCS, Mar 2006 - Apr 2008 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, - Developer in NCC bank account with Java scripting, HTML, CSS - Developer in Microsoft account with .net, HTML, CSS

Education

Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence, Liverpool John Moores University

PGD, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore