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Deepak Murthy

Software Solutions Architecture Leader
Stamford,CT

Summary

Pragmatic professional with solid experience in leadership roles with strong skills in artificial intelligence, machine learning, application development, enterprise architecture, and product engineering. Adept at implementing strategic business plans, driving growth and improving operations. Performance-driven innovative solutions architecture leader with over 20 years of experience in delivering secure, resilient, customer-centric enterprise solutions that are aligned with business requirements, policies and regulatory mandates. Results-oriented individual well-versed in leading teams to drive innovation, optimize and automate processes, and implement strategic initiatives with a focus on outcomes of increased efficiency and customer satisfaction. Collaborative leader dedicated to building, motivating, and leading talented individuals.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
14
14
years of post-secondary education

Work History

VP, Solutions Architecture — Product Engineering

Synchrony
Stamford, CT
04.2022 - Current
  • Led and managed a cross-functional team of 9 Solutions Architects, overseeing design and implementation of innovative, cloud-native, self-optimizing, AI based solutions with focus on customer-centricity in product designs.
  • Collaborated with colleagues on special projects to transform and position the company as a FinTech through adoption of blockchain, crypto-currency, embedded finance, and composable architecture.
  • Utilized Agile methodology and AI/ML technologies for rapid prototyping and delivery of financial products to win new business partnerships in a highly competitive environment.
  • Monitored software solution development process to identify areas for improvement in SDLC for architecture, design, development, testing, quality assurance, and production deployment.
  • Developed and executed technology roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business objectives and driving successful outcomes.

VP, Integration Services — API-led Integrations

Synchrony
Stamford, CT
01.2019 - 03.2022
  • Developed and implemented a comprehensive, secure, strategy for an enterprise ecosystem leveraging APIs for integrations. Focus was on streamlining the onboarding of consumer apps; presentment of products; and access to contractually permitted data while maintaining compliance with government regulations and industry standards.
  • Utilized API management tools (Apigee Edge and AWS API Gateway) for effective API traffic management, monitoring and congestion control.
  • Coordinated design and development of a developer portal to manage API products, their consumers and secure, automated, delivery and update of API access credentials.
  • Oversaw implementation of CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments of integrations.
  • Established, and enforced, policies, procedures, operational standards, and design principles for integration with external parties and internal system-to-system interactions.

AVP, Development Leader — AI & Process Automation

Synchrony
Stamford, CT
01.2017 - 12.2018
  • Founded a Community of Excellence for synergistic development, continuous monitoring, and lifecycle management of AI solutions.
  • Established a methodology and enterprise guardrails for safe and secure build and execution of AI solutions and process automation. The guardrails included considerations on ethics and reducing bias in models.
  • Managed all aspects of the software development life cycle of AI solutions from requirements gathering to design, implementation, validation, assurance, reviews, and deployment.
  • Oversaw an interactive forum for application developers to promote collaborative learning. This forum allowed for the coaching and mentoring of AI developers to build high-quality, reliable solutions.
  • Partnered with Agile Project Office and product managers to analyze and manage technical debt; plan program increments; assess capacities and constraints for timely delivery; and resolve conflicts between stakeholders.

AVP, Enterprise Architecture

Synchrony
Stamford, CT
08.2014 - 12.2016
  • Provided architecture thought leadership to, and managed the governance of, the migration of data centers within contractually stipulated timelines with little impact to architectural integrity and business process impacts. The divestment of our business operations from GE resulted in the migration of these data centers.
  • Formulated an enterprise strategy, and created roadmaps, for the adoption of cloud computing with a focus on balancing elasticity with compliance to regulations.
  • Demonstrated the plausible business opportunities with AWS cloud offerings in the contexts of serverless compute, data analytics, and customer contact.
  • Researched new technologies like blockchain, crypto-currency, and distributed ledgers that could benefit the organization's future states of the architecture.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to identify and prioritize technology initiatives, delivering solutions that met strategic business needs.

AVP, Enterprise Architecture

General Electrical Capital Retail Bank
Stamford, CT
09.2012 - 07.2014
  • Founded the Enterprise Architecture practice in response to a significant audit finding from regulators. This practice established a methodology for risk-averse governance of technology investments and software solution lifecycles.
  • Converged architecture thought processes across multiple lines of businesses and streamlined advisory services to CIO/CTO leaders. Established the guardrails for architecture governance in partnership with the Office of Project Management and stakeholders managing supplier relationships.
  • Managed the enterprise architecture team, ensuring alignment with business goals and IT standards.
  • Co-led a 25-person team of enterprise architects and solutions architects across GE Capital to build our vision of frictionless, architecture driven methodology of building secure, simple, stable, resilient, and reliable software solutions with the help of AI and process automation.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify and address technology gaps, resulting in enhanced productivity and cost savings.

Senior Enterprise Architect

General Electric Capital Retail Bank
Stamford, CT
04.2004 - 08.2012
  • Directed architecture teams across 7 lines of businesses and provided advisory services to CIO/CTO leaders on IT vision, technology strategies, and roadmaps.
  • Established, and managed, a 'Center of Excellence' for architecture strategy and reusable software components to promote rapid development of high performance, guaranteed quality, configurable software applications. Enforced solutions compliance with architecture strategy.
  • Interacted with business partners to solicit their inputs and seek feedback when formulating strategic visions.
  • Led vendor technical resources and junior architects to define conceptual solutions based on requirements elicited from business analysts. Mentored designers and application developers in the full-lifecycle of development of high quality, efficient software solutions.
  • Owned RFP and RFI initiatives for the selection of vendors and their solutions.

Senior Systems Engineer

GE Money
Shelton, CT
10.2002 - 04.2004
  • Functioned as chief architectural and principal technology resource for planning, architecture definition, design and development of software application components within a mission-critical, globally distributed, call center application bound by strict, penalty based, performance expectations.
  • Managed 8 in-house and offshore technical architects in the planning, architecture definition, design and delivery of reusable software application components within defined expectations of project timelines, deliverable quality, performance, and regulatory compliance.
  • Provided technical insight and direction to business leaders when formulating strategies for revenue and market growth.
  • Conducted objective evaluation and selection of software solutions based on documented business needs and technical constraints.
  • Led cross-functional design walk-throughs to validate solutions against business requirements and IT strategy

Education

Ph.D. - Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur, India
09.1989 - 01.1997

Master of Technology - Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur, India
09.1987 - 05.1989

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Engineering

University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering
Bengaluru, India
09.1982 - 05.1987

Skills

AI-Machine Learning

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Timeline

VP, Solutions Architecture — Product Engineering

Synchrony
04.2022 - Current

VP, Integration Services — API-led Integrations

Synchrony
01.2019 - 03.2022

AVP, Development Leader — AI & Process Automation

Synchrony
01.2017 - 12.2018

AVP, Enterprise Architecture

Synchrony
08.2014 - 12.2016

AVP, Enterprise Architecture

General Electrical Capital Retail Bank
09.2012 - 07.2014

Senior Enterprise Architect

General Electric Capital Retail Bank
04.2004 - 08.2012

Senior Systems Engineer

GE Money
10.2002 - 04.2004

Ph.D. - Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology
09.1989 - 01.1997

Master of Technology - Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology
09.1987 - 05.1989

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Engineering

University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering
09.1982 - 05.1987

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