I am a seasoned architect, designer and developer with more than 16 years of IT experience and a proven expertise in developing and delivering technology solutions with wide variety of applications ranging from web applications, loan originations to trade clearing risk-engines. In my current role, I`m consulting one of the biggest clearing firm to transform their platform from batch based to low latency high throughput real time platform. In the past I`ve played a role of a Technology anchor of a big client-account providing thought leadership to the multiple project teams. I acted as a change agent in my pursuit of continuous improvement in technologies and methodologies for delivering the best value to my clients in the most efficient manner. I smoothly steered teams out of the disruptive forces of technology and development methodology changes on various occasions. Few of his initiatives include transitioning from Waterfall to distributed Agile, modernizing IT infrastructure from a set of chaotic applications to standardized Service Oriented Application platform, upgrading operating systems, transitioning from stateful BPM based systems to stateless event driven system, scaling an Auto Loan Origination System, Performance Tuning to support twice as much of the load with improved response times etc. My core areas of expertise include technology solution architecture, performance engineering, application integration and migration to newer technologies, cloud computing, grid computing etc. ©