Mahesh Kulkarni

➤ Overseeing end-to-end stakeholder engagement, participating in workshops, constructing principal designs and providing cross-functional team leadership. ➤ Representing the bank at external events, conducting peer reviews and ensuring timely delivery of critical compliance requirements. ➤ Achieved a remarkable cost reduction for ATM operations while driving EBIT growth during the inaugural year. ➤ Led global template development, solution architecture and technical design requirements and provided expert guidance to customers as a 'Trusted Advisor'. ➤ Championed impactful solutions by leading design socialisation and approval processes and ensuring compliance with all business, technical and MI Dashboard reporting needs. ➤ Oversaw impact analysis, managed design implementation and crafted principal designs, including NRFs with API specifications. ➤ Collaborated with contracted technical service providers, feature teams and design teams to prioritise tasks, identify dependencies and shape effective plans during workshops. ➤ Implemented robust fraud risk assessments for retail payments and safeguarded customers from fraudulent activities. ➤ Engineered API solutions for BNP Fortis Bank customers, enabled third-party ATM deposits and instituted a solution for False Note identification and clearing.

➤ Collaborated closely with business and epic owners to define application scope and meticulously gather requirements, ensuring a holistic understanding of the project's objectives. ➤ Conducted in-depth analysis to proactively identify and address functional or technical gaps and delivered customised solutions that precisely met feature requirements. ➤ Provided accurate estimations for technical team setup and meticulously planned framework activities; developed robust and high-performance Microservices and adhered to OAUTH2.0 security guidelines. ➤ Implemented preventive measures such as open SSO and CSRF attack prevention to fortify role-based APIs against potential threats. ➤ Significantly enhanced user experience and augmented overall functionality by designing and integrating frontend components using Angular. ➤ Played a pivotal role in administering framework construction, actively facilitating peer reviews, participating in daily stand-ups and refinement meetings and conducting thorough assessments to drive continuous improvement. ➤ Served as the design authority and oversaw technical solution architecture for a highly bespoke Credit Processing system. ➤ Led integration of frontend and backend components whilst enabling seamless end-to-end business process data flow. ➤ Realised an all-encompassing architecture solution using Spring and Angular for backend and UI development.

➤ Collaborated with Technical Architect and Project Lead for strategic development planning and direction. ➤ Demonstrated a strong understanding of requirements, estimated development efforts and designed project architecture. ➤ Executed DP service development builds encompassing the configuration of Web Service Proxy and Multi-Protocol Gateway and conducted WTX transformations and rigorous unit testing. ➤ Developed essential Java code for Message broker services and ensured seamless integration and functionality.