Gauri Bidvai

• Leading a multi-year mission in the Wealth Management Product Technology to decommission a vendor product and build a robust, scalable bespoke payment platform.
• Designed, developed, and delivered multiple features leveraging event-driven architecture (Kafka) and microservices, optimized for cloud-based deployment (currently utilizing on-prem cloud services).
• Developed multiple features across various payment types, emphasizing refactoring and reusability , resulting in faster delivery timelines in addition to helping the dev squad mature in subject matter expertise.
• Collaborated closely with product managers to analyze business requirements, identify external team dependencies, estimate efforts, and align releases.
• Enabled continuous delivery to production using feature flags, ensuring seamless rollouts and minimized risk.
• Partnered with QA teams from project inception, facilitating test case development and enhancing the quality of deliverables.

Worked in the advisory and lending businesses of the Wealth Management team,
- Design, develop, and deploy new features ,monitor performance, and ensure efficiency of key business functions. Contribute to major overhauls of systems including cloud adoption and transitioning to microservices oriented architecture.
- Delivered enhancements to CRS-generated credit reports that provide instant visibility of fraud and bankruptcy alerts to credit officers. Additionally, added improvements for security, such as passwords stored and retrieved from Secure Credential Vault
- Designed and developed data access layer (DAL) and manage enhancements/fixes for new database redesign to microservices-oriented architecture. Data access layer is packaged as a library and used by consumer applications (in loan origination as well as loan servicing). Provide support to all the teams using the DAL library.
- Designed , developed and serve as the SME for critical private cloud-hosted Web Service, a micro service that provides account details from the on-premise database and is the only way to access on-premise account data from private cloud applications.
- Ensured services are production ready by onboarding multiple ones on AppDynamics to quantify and monitor performance.

- Developed applications and solutions to support Component Architecture Trading System (CATS) used in U.S., Europe, and Asia, with components used for trade booking, position management, risk management, RFQ response, and P&L tracking.
- Implemented regulatory changes like set correct executioner on Futures electronic trades.
- Worked on several enhancements like blocking new e-trades from being booked against inactive counter parties , implementing a new pricing feed to publish trader bond levels and worked on multiple reports, such as unmatched, unallocated trades

Worked across the client onboarding as well as product and pricing tech areas.
- Delivered uplift of legacy processes consuming credit rating data for entities. This uplift leveraged the firm’s strategic ETL container for working with batch and on demand flows.
- Enabled the firm to consume newer formats from the vendors, and added better alerting and exception capturing for operations technology, through extensive use of Core Java, and GS Collections.
- Worked on an enhanced due diligence initiative—consulted with Regulatory users and built a principal tree service to invoke business rules from a central decision server; based on return values, computed the ownership percentage
- Improved logging in a critical service component that determined eligibility and compliance for several regulations. New procedure single-handedly reduced time and effort spent on L3 support by allowing clear visibility of flow in production.

Worked in the FISG (FInancial Institutions Supervisory Group ) , on CCAR enhancements
- Reduced time for CCAR data collection from 3 months to 2 weeks through development of new automation process; gathered requirements from business users and defined new transformations and validations
- Designed and developed front to back solutions to maintain audit trail for any changes to the metrics data submitted by banks.

• Designed and delivered processes/solutions to optimize OpsStation/WFM, Lehman’s client electronic messaging gateway, which handles real-time trades and allocation and interfaced with multiple external systems
• Developed new workflows, provided production support for system, and worked on end-to-end testing of application
• Wrote SQL scripts to verify database migration and maintained start/stop scripts in shell and Perl for OpsStation 4.0 migration
• Worked with business users during UAT phase
• Enabled faster NOE delivery through implementation of new process that interfaced with Reuters; used Spring bean factories and dependency injection features, as well as Spring JDBC, to configure business components
• Provided capability for clients to send allocations via funds transfer pricing system through implementation of FTP Allocation upload module, which used Jakarta POI API for Excel parsing and Commons Net API for FTP connections
• Designed and implemented improvement for identifying duplicate electronic allocations and allocations for TBA multiple pool trades, which included extensive use of Collections framework
• Developed new workflows for CP (Commercial Paper) trades; created durable Tibco subscriptions, implemented template design pattern, and employed certified message delivery
• Used JAXB to marshal / unmarshal data from XML