Anil Gosavi
Raleigh,NC
Summary
An accomplished Director of Software Engineering with over 20 years of extensive experience in software development and 10 years in technical leadership. Proven track record of building and leading diverse teams, skilled in driving technical excellence, fostering cross-functional collaboration, strategic planning, and agile development. Renowned for hands-on leadership, adept at architecting and designing applications utilizing trending technology stacks in complex environments. Certified as an AWS Cloud Architect and Microsoft Azure, Professional Scrum Product Owner, demonstrating commitment to continuous learning and professional development.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Director of Technology
Credit Suisse
01.2021 - 11.2023
- Managed a critical technology platform supporting a billion-dollar revenue-generating Investment Banking Equity Capital Markets business, serving 3000 institutional clients (e.g., Fidelity) and 500 global users.
- Spearheaded an industry initiative collaborating with 13 leading banks such as BOFA, JPMC, GS, UBS, CS, and Citi to build and integrate an innovative product enabling real-time connectivity to institutions, resulting in up to a 70% operational efficiency boost and a 50% reduction in cost.
- Led multiple complex cross-functional programs across business, engineering, and operations to streamline legacy processes and workflows, challenging decade-old practices. Achieved a 30% increase in operational efficiency and automated more than half of the manual workflows while mitigating risks and audit points.
- Directed 10-15 people across engineering and operations teams, overseeing hiring, mentoring, and talent development, fostering growth, and promoting multiple candidates with exceptional leadership.
- Hands-on leader with architecture and development experience, built server and client applications with REST API, microservices, messaging across various technology stacks, including C#, Microsoft.Net, .Net Core, JavaScript, Angular, HTML5, NodeJS, Python, IBM MQ, Kibana, Elasticsearch, and Docker.
- Strategically led a program to migrate over 40% of legacy applications to modern architecture, including API and microservices, while implementing Test Driven Development, CI/CD, and DevOps practices. This accelerated development, adaptability, and boosted team productivity, confidence, and morale.
- Partnered with senior IT and business executives, leaders, and COOs to plan, define, and implement organizational goals and roadmaps, optimizing budget and resources.
- Successfully partnered and collaborated with key Wall Street vendor partners to define product roadmaps, establish controls, mitigate risks, enhance data security and protection. Identified and acted on multiple gaps, risks, and opportunities, resulting in cost savings of more than 10-15% in annual subscription fees.
VP, SoLware Engineering
Credit Suisse
01.2015 - 12.2020
- Led and coordinated multiple engineering and operations teams across Singapore, New York, and India, overseeing technology platforms for Investment Banking, Regulatory reporting, and cross-trading.
- Directed the software design, architecture, development, and delivery of several products encompassing equity capital raising platform (e.g. Facebook IPO), tracking performance of investment banking division on the Wall-Street (deals won/lost), buy back shares for clients (e.g. Microsoft) and order management platform.
- Led a time-sensitive, high-visibility project for the European market, securing a over 250 million dollars deal by onboarding hundreds of institutional clients and users. Orchestrated seamless integration with multiple IT systems while ensuring legal, data, and GDPR compliance, culminating in a successful implementation and deal closure.
- Implemented Scrum and Kanban in an agile environment, addressing challenges such as accountability, communication issues with stakeholders, and ambiguity in the product roadmaps. This resulted in over a 20% improvement in time-to-market, with business stakeholders regularly involved in defining product roadmaps.
- Redesigned intraday client relationship data processing engine, which previously faced challenges due to integration with multiple reference data services, while onboarding clients. Resulting in a drastic turn-around time by up to 70%.
- Automated testing of a complex front-to-back trading flow by integrating with internal and external order management systems using testing frameworks like NUnit, PowerShell, and Xray, reducing testing time from a week to a day.
- Invested over 50% of time in hands-on development, code reviews, and mentoring developers, emphasizing a proactive approach to technical leadership and skill development. Encompassing technologies includes C# .Net, JavaScript, HTML5, Angular, TypeScript, IBM MQ, Sybase, MSSQL, Oracle, and Power BI.
- Managed talent acquisition, hiring, professional development, performance evaluations, fostering career growth, and leadership development initiatives.
- Structured a five-year Total Cost Ownership (TCO) cost reduction program by consolidating and rationalizing infrastructure, resulting in a 90% saving with run rate reduced to $185K from $1.6M. Consolidated global vendor agreements worth up to $10M, achieving 8% annual savings.
- Conceptualized and drove the region-wide Employee Recognition Program, Digital Learning Series and VP & Directors strategy forums, leading to higher employee engagement, boosting innovation and collaboration among leaders.
AVP, Senior Software Engineer
Credit Suisse
03.2004 - 12.2014
Education
Master of Computer Applications -
Bachelor of Computer Science -
Skills
- Software Engineering
- Technical Architecture
- People Management
- Agile Development
- Talent Building
- Mentoring
- Roadmap planning
- IT Governance
- Strategic Partnerships
- Stakeholder Management
- Resource & Budget Management
- IT Security and Risk Management
- IT Vendor Management
- C#
- Net Core
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Python
- Java
- NodeJS
- Sybase
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- Snowflake
- VBA
- PowerShell
- Power BI
- Azure
- AWS
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Jenkins
- DevOps
- CI/CD
- Git
- JIRA
- Confluence
- SCRUM
- Kanban
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (2023)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (2023)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (2023)
- Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO) (2023)
Websites
Timeline
Director of Technology
Credit Suisse
01.2021 - 11.2023
VP, SoLware Engineering
Credit Suisse
01.2015 - 12.2020
AVP, Senior Software Engineer
Credit Suisse
03.2004 - 12.2014