Work Experience

CLS Group: Head of Strategic Solutions Delivery

April 2017 to Present · Greater New York City Area

CLS Group settles over USD 7.0 trillion in payments daily across 18 major currencies. Its centralized CLSSettlement service is the global standard for mitigating settlement risk (Herstatt risk) in the foreign exchange (FX) market. Designated a systemically important financial market utility, CLS Bank is regulated and supervised by the Federal Reserve and overseen by a 23-member central bank committee.

  • Lead a global engineering organization across development, cloud migration, and AI adoption; own portfolio planning, budgets, and technology strategy
  • AI in production: Copilot chatbot and AI security code scanning in use across engineering
  • AI Lab: Manage the AI Lab, a secure environment for evaluating AI-assisted development, automated test design, and AI-enabled applications under enterprise security, compliance, and lifecycle governance
  • Cloud migration: Lead the migration of critical applications from on-premises data centers to AWS, including highly available, scalable architectures and cross-Region disaster recovery
  • Partner with product leaders on roadmaps; lead technical engagement with clients and partners integrating with CLS platforms
  • CLSDirect (internet-facing platform): Client portal and API gateway serving 200+ corporate clients and ~1,100 active users, handling millions of API requests/month, and hosting 8+ products (market data, trade monitoring, reporting, fund management)
  • Identity and access: Internal users synced from Active Directory to Okta with authentication delegated back to AD; external users and API clients authenticated by Okta for internet-facing applications; SWIFT as the identity provider and non-repudiation layer for settlement applications on the SWIFT network
  • Application portfolio: Lead settlement and netting web platforms used by member banks, plus 15+ applications supporting operations, compliance, risk, and liquidity
  • Led delivery of LedgerConnect, a distributed-ledger app store proof of concept with 9 major global banks and multiple fintech application providers

Bank of America: Sr. Vice President

June 2012 to March 2017 · New York, NY

I led development and business/operations support teams responsible for online banking platforms supporting 35+ million retail customers.

  • Experience Management Platform: Enabled business users to create, update, and deploy web pages and content in a live environment with approval workflows and Spanish localization. The runtime component efficiently rendered pages and handled millions of customer requests daily.
  • Marketing Content Management Platform: Centralized repository of all marketing content ensuring consistency across channels. Managed configuration for credit card campaigns, customer-level offers, sign-in/out splashes, and targeted ads. Leveraged by web and mobile apps, with mobile integration supporting Apple Pay and Google Pay.
  • API Gateway: Authenticated, authorized, created, published, and monitored APIs at scale. All mobile apps and vendor integrations used the gateway, supporting millions of interactions daily.

Citigroup: Sr. Vice President

May 2010 to June 2012 · New York, NY

Citigroup is one of the world’s largest global banks, serving institutional and retail clients across 160+ countries. I led development, architecture, and operational support teams.

  • Corporate Action Platform: Automated and transformed manually intensive operational processes. Received corporate actions from DTCC and agents, consolidated positions and trades in real-time, calculated entitled positions, and enabled institutional clients to manage events and elections online.
  • CitiVelocity.com: Investment banking portal providing a single point of entry for all of Citi’s clients, using a federated approach to content generation where each application retained its own development and operations team.

Barclays Capital: Vice President

March 2007 to May 2010 · New York, NY

I led development, architecture, and operational support teams.

  • Trade Fail Management System: Consolidated real-time repository of trade data, settlement and fail status captured from back-office systems. Used by operations globally to manage settlement fails for equities, fixed income, and listed options.
  • Trade Confirmation System: Real-time trade confirmation and reporting platform serving Equities, Fixed Income, Prime Services, and Wealth businesses. Confirmations delivered via email, Oasys Global Direct, and Swift.

Early Career: Senior Developer & Consultant

2000 to 2007

I worked as a senior developer and consultant at Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers, and Credit Suisse, building capital markets systems in Java, web technologies, messaging middleware, and relational databases.

Ismaili Professional Network: Volunteer

2017 to 2022 · Platform Development & Architecture

As a volunteer, I helped develop and architect the platform for Ismaili Professional Network (IPNOnline.net), a global community of ~15,000 professionals focused on career advancement, personal enrichment, and community service. The platform facilitates creating various alliances (Entrepreneurship, Finance, Technology, Education, Media, Legal) and enables members to search for and collaborate with professionals across disciplines.