Khyati Desai
Thane-Mumbai, MH-IN, 400601- ·
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/khyati-desai/
Personal Details:
28th September | India
Independent Consultant | Technical / Solutions Architect | Engineering Manager
Chief Architect of the MSME loans platform(www.psbloansin59minutes.com) launched by Mr.
Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India in Nov’2018.
Meticulous Solution Architect & Technical Product Manager with 12+ years of experience, reliable &
excellent at juggling multiple tasks and working under pressure. Broad industry experience includes
Finance/FinTech, E-Commerce, Travel and Media.
Technically innovative consultant, partnering with high-growth organisations to exploit technology and use knowledge
of IT solutions to drive organisational change and support business process design. Introduce Agile Methodologies to
structure long-term strategies and enrich business systems. Demonstrate a solid awareness of business solutions
maintaining a keen focus in the area of collaboration, documentation management, and CRM to accelerate the
company mission. Exemplary leader, excelling in dynamic, fast-paced environments.
Core Competencies
● Solutions Architecture / Design
● Agile / Scrum Frameworks
● AWS and Microservices Architecture
● Team Leadership and Training
● Startups
● Open source Stack
● Delivery Management
● Problem Solving
● Client Relationship Management
● Troubleshooting / Critical Thinking
● Technical Product Management
● MVP Development
Technical Proficiencies
Technologies:
Java/J2EE, Microservices Architecture, Web Services, Spring Framework (Spring
Boot, Spring REST, Spring Cloud, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA),FIX 4.2 Protocol,
Executor Framework, Xwiki(CMS Tool), Mule Framework, Hibernate, Jruby,
Intalio(BPM Product), Liferay., Spree Commerce
Cloud Platform
AWS
DevOps
CI/CD (Jenkins)
Web Technologies:
JSP, JSTL, Servlets, JavaScript, EXTJS, Ajax DWR
Servers:
Tomcat 5.5, Tomcat 6.0, Tomcat 7.0, , Tomcat 8.0
Database
Technologies:
MySQL, MS SQL Server 2000, Oracle
Versioning Systems:
GitHub, Microsoft Visual Source Safe (VSS), SVN
IDE:
Eclipse ,STS, NetBeans
Operating Systems:
Mac OSX, Linux, Windows
Currently Studying
Data Science Architect(R Programming, SAS, Tableau, Scala, Apache Spark, Big Data/
Hadoop, Hive, Pig) & Devops(Docker,Kubernetes, Chef, Ansible) , BlockChain
Continued...
Professional Experience
Independent Consultant - May 2015 - Present, Mumbai, India
Providing consultancy services, leveraging technical sophistication and industry expertise to develop models of current
and future application / web architecture, and create design structures that are stable, resilient, and performant.
Estimate costs, and prepare business cases for IT solutions, considering infrastructure, licenses, development and
support.
Projects
❏ Technical Product Architect, NewPage Solutions INC , Nov-2018- present ,USA,India
Domain: Health Care
Role: Project Management,Product Management, Scrum Master, Technical Lead Architect
Achievements/Tasks
● Technical Lead and Scrum Master for our client’s backend data platform and Data Lake project.
● Pre sales support including effort estimation, preparing proposals and responding to RFIs.
❏ Technical Advisor, Aditya Birla Finance Ltd. , Nov-2018- present -Mumbai, India
Domain: Finance
Role: Solution Architect, Integration Architect, Advisor
Achievements/Tasks
● Solution architecture and system integration design
● Due diligence of digital LOS vendor and 3P Service providers
● Review of contracting terms
● Costing and TCO estimation
❏ Chief Solutions Architect, CapitaWorld Pvt Ltd ,Feb-2017 - May-2018 - Ahmedabad
Domain: Finance
Role: Solution Architect, Engineering Manager, Delivery/Release Management, Project
Management, Vendor Management, PreSales
Achievements/Tasks
● Chief Solution Architect of the MSME loans platform launched by Mr. Narendra Modi,
Prime Minister of India.
● Ownership of Architecture and Design encompassing all aspects of the client interaction on the
solution.
● Understand Product, Functional need/Roadmap. Assess the old product, Redesign, Re-Architect and
Refactor the solution code.
● Design and lead implementation of a platform for a leading small industries finance corporation.
Integration included components to do a credit check(CIBIL), bank statement analyzer, Tax (ITR &
GST) documentation alignments etc.Setup Agile Process for continuous delivery, Technical Team
Mentoring and Development Team Management.
● Guiding extended team working on AI, ML and Big Data. Practicality assessment and Integration to
core product.
● Identify, Design and Build Component that can be patentable. (One-Form Engine)
● Help CIO in assessments of partners, interfaces and offshoring integrations.
● Assist CIO in setting up team in Mumbai / Ahmedabad and leading that team.
● Managed the team(in-house/vendor) across cities.
Continued...
❏ NEML (NCDEX e Markets Limited) , August 2016-June 2017, Mumbai, India
Domain: Finance
Role: Senior Solution Architect
Achievements/Tasks
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Designed and Integrated the workflow engine with the Indian Army Project and
Karnataka Government Projects while working with India NCDEX eMarkets Limited;
Worked with domain experts to create trading platforms for trading in host of commodities
(agricultural / non-agricultural) to various market participants.
❏ ShopX (10i Commerce Services Pvt Ltd) , May 2015-Feb 2017, Bangalore, India
Domain: E-Commerce
Role: Senior Solution Architect
Achievements/Tasks
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Served as the key application architect/designer and programmer for the initial release of the
start-up of the Core Technical Team; managed application design and development while working with
Shop X.
Designed catalog service, early warning systems (EWS) and accounting systems; leveraged a strong
understanding of the e-commerce domain and marketplace.
Prior experience as an Associate with JP Morgan Bangalore -); Senior Software Engineer
with Intalio(Everteam BPM), Bangalore -); A
pplication Developer with JP Morgan (2010 to
2012); as an Assistant Software Engineer with Tata Consultancy Services (2007 to 2010); as a
Freelance Java Developer w
ith Square24 (2006 to 2007); and as a S
oftware Engineer with
Verchaska Infotech Ltd (2006 to 2007).
Education
Master of Computer Applications | B.Sc. in Mathematics, Mumbai University
Diploma in Information Technology (DNIIT), National Institute of Information Technology(NIIT),
Certificate of Computing, IGNOU
Certifications and Credentials
AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate, Amazon Web Services
Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®), Scrum Alliances
Sun Certified Java Programmer – 95%, Sun Microsystems
Sun Certified Web Component Developer – 95%, Sun Microsystems
Professional Awards and Recognition
Vanhack Top 20 Female Technologist across globe and invited for Leap 2.0, Ontario, Canada-2018.
Spot Award for Technology excellence.
Awarded Certificate of Excellence, NIIT
Won Second Prize in Bugging and Debugging – Sagacity 05-06 / Won Third Prize– Sagacity 04-05, Annual
Technological Festival of Vivekanand Education Society (VESIT)
Awarded Certificate of Merit and Scholarship by NIIT
Professional Affiliations
Burn Boundaries (2015 to Present)
Conferences & Courses
Agile India, 2014, Bengaluru – Conference / Issuer of the Certificate, International Conference on Agile / Lean
Software Methods
Languages
English - Advanced; Hindi - Native; Marathi - Native; Gujarati - Native