
Harmesh Rohira
Principal Consultant | Calypso & Capital Markets
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Principal Consultant with 14+ years expertise in Calypso technology and capital markets solutions. Led bank-wide advisory and v17 upgrade implementations across EMEA, delivering green field projects and complex integrations for major financial institutions. Specialized in derivatives, FX migration, and technical architecture with proven client delivery success.
Work experience
Principal Consultant
Crédit Agricole CIB
Jun 2022 - Present
4 years 5 months
Paris, France
Run the bank Capital Market Advisory and Calypso Upgrade Implementation on v17
Senior Consultant
Calypso Technology
Jun 2017 - May 2022
5 years
Paris Area, France
Calypso Advisory and Consulting for EMEA clients. Able to efficiently deliver as part of Customer Delivery team and able to efficiently perform duties including but not limited to Client management / expectation handling, Techno-Functional Analysis, Software Architecture & Design, Team Lead of a short team of 2 resoirces, 3rd Party Pricing Integration with Calypso for a global asset management. Worked in full capacity to successfully deliver so far for the clients including (but not limiting to) - CEMBRA Money Bank, Zurich (V16.1 Green Field Implementation) - Orchard Global Asset Manager (V15 Calypso 3rd party Pricing Integration with Zeliade) - Novo Banco, Spain (Derivatives Reporting & Accounting) - And Bank, Andorra (V15 FOWS Implementation and Performance ) - HypoVereinsBank (CATT tool demonstration) - Credit Du Nord (Upgrade Analysis from 14.4 to 16.1) - BBVA (Calypso Cloud Service - Matching Module) - Banca Transilvania (Accounting / BO standardized solution and customizations) - Credit Agricole CIB (CACIB - assisted in Health-Checks and Perf. Log Analysis) - BPSS (BackOffice standardized solutions and Inventory optimizations) - Banque De France / Banque De Espagnol (Accounting Solutions and Customizations)
Calypso Technical Analyst
Emirates NBD
Nov 2015 - May 2017
1 year 7 months
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
FX/FXMM/FXO Migration from Kondor K+ to Calypso
Senior Software Engineer
Accenture
Oct 2012 - Oct 2015
3 years 1 month
Mumbai Area, India
•Helped client in leveraging Calypso by sending out Payment SWIFTS automatically. (MT202, 103 and their respective Cancellations – MT 292 and MT 192) •Migrated client infrastructure from Sun Solaris to more advanced and high powered Linux servers. •Moved the client code base / repository and the third party softwares from ClearCase to an open source and immensely popular version control tool Git. Worked on CI tools – Jenkins and Stash integrated with Git. •Developing Custom Engines for fetching and inserting trades from myriad of FO sub-systems into calypso. •Developing custom SWIFT messages MT-598 and sub types associated with different templates. •Custom event generation and event configs, message set-up and message sending config. •Development of new custom fell calculators and Pricer’s/Pricer Measures for calculation of Sales Margin amount. •Custom Workflow rules and workflow configs. •Working on various BO development tasks involving Swift Messages, Transfer Generation, BO Postings, Workflow & Workflow Rules and Scheduled Tasks. •Bug Fixes and Unit Testing on test environment before taking final sign-off from BA / Users. •Release and Deployment using Clear Case. •Worked on upgrade activity/technical implementation , responsible for calypso upgrade/implementation and corresponding database schema changes to calypso v13.sp7 •Customization of calypso, Developing Custom Engines for fetching and inserting trades from myriad of FO sub-systems(Martini, Aktiv, Bloomberg, Front Arena etc.) into calypso. •Developing custom SWIFT templates ( generating proprietary messages- MT598) not provided out-of-the-box by calypso.
Software Developer, Banking and Fianacial Services
Quinnox
Jul 2010 - Oct 2012
2 years 4 months
Mumbai Area, India
As a freshly out of college grad, Quinnox was my first step into the glittering and shimmering world of technology, services and software solutions aka the "IT World". The journey in these two years has been an amazing one, with great minds and best people around. With great pleasure i was introduced to yet another small but astonishing world/domain of 'Calypso Technology' and what more do i say i am still proudly sailing in this voyage with greater confidence and enthusiasm. In these two years, majorly i have been a developer working with Calypso and Java in the Fixed Income and Derivatives domain gaining great knowledge from different projects about business operations and its overall functioning with in depth functional/domain knowledge. My responsibilities included:- - Implementing CALYPSO solutions for different clients with different requirements involving custom interface implementations, upgrade solutions, maintenance and release/configuration management. - Worked on various asset classes primarily on Fixed Income and Derivative products. - Custom Software Development on Java for internal organizational use helping them with efficient resource planning and utilization.
Education
Thadomal Shahani Engineering College
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)
2007 - 2010
4 years
SVKM'S Shri Baghubhai Mafatlal Polytechnic
Diploma in Information Technology
2004 - 2007
4 years