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INK Content Catalyst / Deloitte, US

Search & Update platform on Azure using a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture. Integrated Azure Document Intelligence, Cognitive Search, Azure OpenAI and Neo4j for multi-hop relationship mapping.

• →Led solution architecture for an agentic automation framework with Azure Functions & Durable Functions
• →Defined product backlog, estimates, plan and budget for the Implementation phase
• →Embedded secure design with Blob Storage, Cosmos DB and API Management in a regulated audit context

Transformation Hub – Discovery / Deloitte, US

Centralised, cloud-native, modular platform to transform incoming audit publications into multiple downstream formats consumed by Omnia, Levia and the Research portal.

• →Analysed legacy DITA OT toolkit; proposed modern Azure + C# target architecture
• →Drove current-state assessment and target-state architecture across workstreams
• →Articulated technical & business trade-offs to senior client stakeholders

EY Helix Programme 2.0 / Ernst & Young

EY's global analytics platform — analytics audit capabilities for clients such as Siemens and Nestlé using SAP HANA, .NET, ReactJS on Azure with Azure DevOps as ALM tooling.

• →Owned quarterly budgeting, PI Planning and Solution Planning for 3+ Scrum teams and 50+ team members
• →Embedded coding standards, automated deployment and CI/CD on Azure DevOps
• →Provided programme visibility via Agile metrics in weekly, monthly and quarterly executive reports

SurpriseRed.com e-commerce portal

Founded and ran an e-commerce start-up — owned P&L, business strategy, product evaluation and technology decisions. Business was wound down due to Covid-19 disruption.

• →Led a 15-person technical team to resolve technical debt and ship customer-facing features
• →Evaluated e-commerce tooling and made architecture decisions end-to-end

Assurant Mortgage Solutions, US (now XOME Holdings LLC)

Mortgage platform on .NET Web APIs and MS SQL Server, micro-services architecture — regulated US financial services environment.

• →Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies; tracked velocity in Jira
• →Managed Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and release burndown artefacts
• →Coached the team to a self-organising, self-driven Scrum culture

FLOW — C. Hoare & Co., UK Private Bank

Proposal management, approval cycle, facility creation and document generation across Loans, Overdrafts and other facilities. SharePoint workflows + .NET workflow services replacing legacy facility administration.

• →Facilitated Scrum of Scrums across 2 onshore and 3 offshore distributed teams
• →Led programme transformation from Waterfall to Agile under UK banking regulation
• →Owned ALM on TFS 2010 — build, release and change management practices

SILICA Fund Administration, South Africa

Wealth & Investment Management platform — Waterfall under CMMi processes. C++ and Oracle, delivered from Pune offshore centre.

• →Owned all PMBOK areas with full CMMi documentation
• →Successfully represented the programme in an external CMMi Level 5 Quality Audit

Investec Securities, South Africa

Architected Microsoft-stack solutions for Securities & Wealth Management — Corporate Action Engine, Data Feeds, Conversions, Message Broker and Stock Exchange Bill Allocations.

• →Implemented Continuous Integration with TFS Builds — aligned to modern CI/CD
• →Led onsite resource management of engineers embedded at Investec for 3 years
• →Worked across regulated trading & settlement workflows including corporate actions

Marks & Spencer (UK) · National Grid (UK)

Developed a dependency-injection-based solution framework adopted across multiple delivery streams; ASP.NET + MS BI (SSIS / SSRS).

Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance / Axentis Inc., US

Developed the administration module for a SOX compliance solution using ASP.NET, C# and MS SQL Server — early exposure to regulatory compliance & controls in financial reporting.

Gazi Commerce Institute, Mumbai

Developed eLearning web application modules for commerce students using ASP and MS SQL.