Portfolio Highlights

AI Vision

Crafted an AI-driven platform enhancing user engagement.

Cloud Framework

Developed a scalable cloud-based framework integrating DevOps automation and site reliability engineering to optimize performance and uptime.

Web Solutions

Designed high-performance web applications using J2EE and object-oriented methodologies, focusing on seamless UI/UX and future-ready architecture.

Sendhil's expertise turned our complex web project into a smooth, efficient system that truly exceeded our expectations.

D. Fleck

★★★★★

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Architect / Manager - Spend Management Engineering @ Goldman Sachs & CO NY/NJ (07/2019 – 10/2023)

• Thrive in Spend Management Engineering, a program embarked for the purpose of bringing in control and operating efficiencies for Travel & Entertainment and in the Sourcing to payment workflow of the firm’s non-compensation expenses by adopting SAP’s cloud based applications.

• Exceled as Technical Architect to oversee the control and efficiencies of the vendor and proprietary applications; spearheaded Cloud adoption for the Spend applications.

• SRE / DevOps Lead - Lead the DevOps initiatives for the team before handing it over to the offshore team. Continue to oversee the Site Reliability Engineering aspects for the Cloud, On-prem and vendor applications.

• Part of AI Steering group - Lead the AI related explorations. Worked with vendors (Icertis, SAP) to explore the CLM and ERP solutions to utilize AI.

• Performed a PoC on Redshift to move existing On-Prem Sybase IQ/HDFS data stores into cloud and lead the Snowflake onboarding including whitelisting, PoC, data model/mapping, API creation etc.

• Robotic Process Automation champion - Preparation of multiple use cases and lead the implementation.

• Hands-on with Kafka messaging whilst designing and developing an entitlement platform across GS & vendor applications.

• Designed, lead and developed many data schemas, data models, mapping, APIs as part of data analytics and reporting across Spend data.

• Test Automation lead - Lead the team to create test cases and implement integration & E2E testing for vendor applications using Selenium and Python. UI/UX Expert - Designed and developed multiple User Interfaces with ReactJS, Vue, Cypress etc.

• Data Steward - Played the role of data steward by overseeing the data models, mapping and external requests for spend data.

• SPC for many vendors- SAP, Tealbook, Sakon, ICertis, Reuters etc. - Coordinated the efforts of optimizing vendor data schemas and APIs for firm needs.

• Lead the initiative of Process Mining to model, analyze and optimize spend process.

• Re-engineered a .Net/C# based application into J2EE architecture.

Java Architect / Technical Specialist/ Lead @ Goldman Sachs & CO NJ (07/2005 – 12/2019)

• General Ledger Reporting Web (Finance Engineering), May 2018 - December 2019

• General Ledger reporting is an UI/UX platform that allows the Legal Entity Controllers, Global Control and other financial regulatory teams for ad hoc analysis of financial reports, drill up/down of various dimension hierarchies. Also enables exporting data into excel, CSV and PDF formats.

• Co-lead a team of 8 and spearheaded the analysis, design and development of REST based framework in SOA architecture along with React based UX/UI for 100+ reports for 4000+ users.

• Mentored new hires to make them understand the culture of the company on a whole and the team in particular. Also trained them in REST, Reladomo, and redux principles.

• Designed and developed a framework for internationalization for regional reports.

• Designed and developed many data models and mapping for GL data while integrating with Tableau reports.

• Involved in optimizing tree hierarchies, ORM group by operations, enabling of horizontal pivoting.

• Developed an ad-hoc entitlements framework to integrate with existing Row Level Security.

• Full-fledged development of a hierarchy builder based on parent-child relationship.

CFO Dashboard (Finance Engineering) @ Goldman Sachs & CO NJ (07/2017 – 12/2019)

• CFO Dashboard is a web application to deliver interactive financial reports to management and to automate adjustments workflow of Financial Reporting team.

• Dashboard delivers estimates, actuals, and weekly summary reports. Another goal of web application is to automate existing excel/email based manual adjustments workflow. Dashboard will provide ability for Financial Reporting team to view/upload history and to enter/persist P&L adjustments.

• Enhancing / Maintaining reports in Angular / react frameworks.

• Integration with Tableau.

General Ledger Validation Service & UI (Finance Engineering) @ Goldman Sachs & CO NJ (04/2016 – 12/2019)

• SOA/REST based service that allows various transaction posting systems to perform code-block validation before posting entries to the General Ledger to reduce number of rejections. Co-lead a team of 8 and spearheaded the analysis, design and development of REST based framework in SOA architecture.

• Mentored new hires to make them understand the culture of the company on a whole and the team in particular. Also trained them in REST, MSA, and containerization principles.

• Effectively handling onshore / offshore model to manage the budget and providing 24X5 supports.

• Lead a discussion to complete an enterprise data model to make this framework available across firm wide.

• Instrumental in making the application to be complaint with TMM requirements and DevOps ready.

• Architected and lead development, using Agile / Kanban methods, of a JavaScript based front-end system which will enable 1000+ users to query, analyze millions of journals.

• Working with multiple teams for effective, seamless integration; instrumental in enabling single sign-on security measures with seamless authentication and authorization of the application.

• Hard Line Manager for 8 resources with the responsibility of annual performance review, salary revisions, immigration handling, utilization.

Conductor Software Factory (Finance Engineering) @ Goldman Sachs & CO NJ (01/2015 – 12/2019)

• A Portmanteau of development and operations ecosystem that streamlines communication, collaboration, build, integration and deployment across developers, operations and support personnel.

• Spearheaded and managed the effort to on board 30+ applications onto this integrated environment by effectively managing 6 resources directly and 9 resources from other teams.

• Explored tools & technologies that work best for our department specific and across the firm applications.

• Go-to person for any clarifications and questions arising during the onboarding process.

• Mentored offshore resources to help make existing and new applications to be TMM complaint and onboarded to continuous build, integration & deploy process.

• Working to automate Database deployments; prepared presentations for the team to get them on speed with the DevOps principles and its impact in SDLC.

• Involved in preparing project proposals supporting Containerization, Micro Services Architecture, Cloud Computing, Robotic Process Automation.

• Actively upgrading my knowledge in AI & ML and made a presentation of their impact in FSI for senior management.

Auto Fulfillment Engine (Controllers Technology) @ Goldman Sachs & CO NJ (03/2013 – 12/2019)

• This application provides solution to enable auto provisioning for vendor / third party application that run in various platforms so that the entire entitlement provisioning is automated and streamlined without any manual intervention. Lead / managed a team of 3 onshore + 2 offshore for the design, analysis, development of auto provisioning core framework in J2EE architecture.

• Designed (Oracle/DB2) database schema, data model and mapping to store order details.

• Set up and configure EMS broker, topics, queues and processing engine.

• Set up and manage code repository (SVN), tracking (JIRA), continuous build (TeamCity), Code coverage (Clover), DB deployer, Jil loader and wiki pages.

• Hands-on experience in Oracle Database (Functions, Stored Procedures) while integrating with PeopleSoft.

• Limited hands-on experience in Hyperion Import/Export, Essbase API, and Shared Services while integrating.

• Single point contact for the requirements, development, test cases, QA, and migration activities among users and technical teams that spread across 3 regions (NA, Europe & Asia).

• Performed Scrum master role and held stand-up meetings.

• Hands-on experience in data model, UML diagrams using Astah.

• Coordinated and executed UAT for the pilot migration, involving users across 3 regions.

• Lead the design & development of a most generic dashboard using ElasticSearch/ Logstash/ Kibana.

• Single point contact for any new application automation / integration process using this framework.

General Ledger Object (Controllers / Financial Technology) @ Goldman Sachs & CO (09/2011 – 12/2019)

• Oversees pass through system for daily postings to various financial systems and customers. Formats, validates, summarizes and passes transactions to downstream systems, including the General Ledger, Reconciliation, and Tax departments, and external regulatory bodies.

• Lead developer for enhancements for this application in Java, XML, DB2, ORM Model and EMS.

• Develop & manage Informatica ETLs / workflows for data loads and reconciliations across DB2 & Oracle.

• Hands-on experience in Team City, Subversion, Maven, SDA, Sonar, Clover Jil Loader & JIRA while Onboarded a legacy CVS-based standalone application to be complaint with the firm defined build, continuous integration & deployment framework.

• Developed a Java framework for parsers, posting engine to process messages from various sources.

• Developed a Java multi-threaded stand-alone application to handle millions of records a day.

• Hands-on experience in JMS to process millions of journals /trades from various sources.

• Designed & lead a team of 3 to develop a java application to retrieve, parse, and store data from Web services based JSON objects and deliver monthly based reports for Volcker rule implementation.

• Single point contact to conduct UATs for various new sources / entities / flows with offshore coordination.

• Handling small enhancements, data analytics, user enquiries and data modeling for Big Data / Data Lake efforts.

Strategic Surveillance Architecture (Securities Compliance) @ Goldman Sachs & CO NJ (03/2008 – 09/2011)

• Provided strategic solutions to process and detect exceptions among the trades done in FICC, Equities & Futures securities, consisting of Data Processing, Detection Engine, Exception Management and Reporting modules.

• Involved in designing & developing the GUI Report Framework, Detection Framework and Detection Engine.

• Lead the analysis, design & development of a centralized routing framework by utilizing a common GS repository of trader / salesperson - supervisor relationships to route the reports to correct supervisors.

• Handled requirement gathering for 9 surveillances and lead the design and development activities.

• Designed and developed a service engine, to serve the requests from various clients requesting FX and FI market data from various internal systems, using Socket, Java Multithreading, thread pooling & Sybase.

• Set up SEFT/FTPS to get market data from external vendors and developed a complicated parsing engine.

• Developed excel based reports using Apache POI, XML and XSL.

• Analyzed, designed and lead the development effort for a routing framework in Java to provide trader supervisor-product-department and other mappings based on GS org structure.

High Throughput Surveillance System (Equities Compliance → Trade Reporting Enquiry and Surveillance System (FICC/Futures Compliance) @ Goldman Sachs & CO (07/2005 - 03/2008)

Employee e-Learning (Senior Consultant) @ Honda Manufacturing, N.A. OH (

Associate, Senior Analyst - Order Fulfillment System, Common Electronic Platform for Approval of Credit & Credit Administration and Central Liability System @ CITI Bank, N.A.