Girish Byakod
Montville,NJ
Summary
Dynamic Information Technology professional with over 20 years of experience in designing and implementing large-scale, high-performance server systems. Proven expertise in multi-threading, multi-process environments, and real-time interaction across heterogeneous platforms, complemented by a comprehensive understanding of the full software development life cycle. Demonstrated excellence in various roles, including Architect, Lead Developer, and Project Lead, consistently delivering high-quality results under pressure. Recognized for strong leadership capabilities and exceptional presentation and interpersonal skills that foster collaboration and drive project success.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Director - Head of Engineering - Controls Technology
Citigroup
02.2022 - Current
- Successful Engineering Leader in Controls Technology, I spearheaded an enterprise-scale transformation, recognized among the organization’s top three programs—delivering a best-in-class Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) platform under an accelerated delivery schedule while meeting rigorous regulatory and business oversight. I blend strategic vision with deep technical expertise to drive modernization, automation, and transformation across complex ecosystems. Committed to engineering excellence, transparency, and continuous improvement—enabling smarter, safer, and more resilient business operations.
- A proven leader in enterprise transformation, I have led high-performing, cross-functional teams to deliver robust, data-driven control solutions that align with business priorities and regulatory mandates. Passionate about fostering a culture of engineering excellence, transparency, and continuous improvement, while enabling smarter, faster, and safer business operations.
- Leading the MCA Transformation Program, one of Citis top three transformation initiatives, redefining Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) execution under strict regulatory timelines (Consent Order commitments). Despite an expanded scope due to a newly introduced MRA, successfully partnering with the business to meet regulatory deadlines.
- Modernizing Control Monitoring & Testing (CMT) by integrating it with MCA, achieving MRA-driven milestones, and leveraging automation to enhance control effectiveness.
- Accelerating Agile transformation and engineering excellence, enhancing PI Planning, backlog management, roadmap flexibility, Jira hygiene, and acceptance criteria, leading to a more adaptive and efficient delivery process.
Senior Technology Lead
Citigroup
11.2011 - 02.2022
- Hands-on Senior Technology Leader with extensive experience delivering enterprise-scale Credit Risk Management solutions for Citigroup and other business sectors. Played a key role in designing and implementing the strategic Credit Risk Management application for Citi Commercial Bank, driving end-to-end solution delivery from concept to deployment.
- Skilled in transforming complex business requirements into functional, scalable designs, leading solution architecture, and developing core components using J2EE. Experienced in integrating cross-functional modules, optimizing system performance, and ensuring technology solutions align with critical business and regulatory objectives.
Senior Analyst Developer
Goldman Sachs
06.2011 - 11.2011
- Harmony – Reconciliation Engine
- The application reconciles the data between various ledgers in the firm and also the data from external entities like exchanges, depositories, clearing houses with internal systems. Processes around 95 million transactions in a day.
- Responsibilities:
- Managing the requirements, prioritization, planning of projects for a very important user community.
- Enhancement of reporting framework to handle crucial business cases. Definition of the report is configurable using XML.
- Design and Development of services using Java to lookup different reference data (product and account related) required for the reconciliation of transactions.
- Http://www2.goldmansachs.com/
Senior Developer
CitiGroup
08.2010 - 06.2011
- Citi Investment Research and Analysis – Content Delivery Network
- This system is a repository for Citi Investment Research publications meant for institutional clients. Provides web services for other systems to pull the research publications from the repository. Allows the client systems to filter the publications based on various criteria.
- Responsibilities:
- Analyzing business requirements and preparing the Functional Requirements Document.
- Analysis, design and development of the web services queries for integration with Citi Private Bank portal.
- Evaluating caching strategies and analyzing the overall system for performance improvements.
- Incorporating hibernate as the persistence layer and EhCache as hibernate’s second level and query cache.
- Database level performance improvements by optimizing queries and creation of new indexes.
- Design, development and testing of in-house object graph cache for research data.
- Improved the test coverage by 50% using jUnit.
- Http://www.citigroup.com/citi/homepage/
Technology Lead
Infosys Technologies Ltd
09.2002 - 08.2010
- Client - Goldman Sachs & Co. - http://www.gs.com
- India and New Jersey, USA
- BoNY – Clearance and Settlement System for Fixed Income trades
- This system interfaces with Bank of New York for clearance and settlement of fixed income trades for US Treasury bonds and Mortgage backed securities. Interfaces with Bony using ISO 15022 swift message formats. Processes status and settlement messages from BoNY and persists the latest status in database. The System is under development using Agile methodology.
- Responsibilities:
- Attending story meetings and analyzing the business requirements.
- Analysis, design and development of clearance movement creation for Held In Custody trades using Java.
- Extensive re-factoring of the existing core code to accommodate build required for the new system.
- Analysis and re-design of the Autosys batch jobs.
- More than 90% test coverage using Junit, Mockito and custom mock service classes.
- Adding Fitnesse scenario based tests for the use cases.
- Http://www.infy.com
Software Engineer
Seminal Infotech, India
12.2001 - 08.2002
- Office Automation Software, City Municipality Corp, India
- Automation of various departments of the municipality – Revenue, Accounts, Birth/Death registration, Personnel, Reports.
- Dealt with novice user groups, conducted requirements gathering using interviews, focus groups.
- Highly appreciated for successfully converting chaotic requirements into a working software.
- Implemented in Visual Basic, MySQL.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Karnataka University
India10.2001
Certification
- Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP). Completed in 2006
- Certified Software Quality Analyst
CORE COMPETENCIES
- Technology Strategy & Governance
- Digital Transformation & Cloud Adoption
- Technology Architecture
- Agile & DevOps Implementation
- Risk & Controls Management
- Budget Optimization & Cost Management
- IT Infrastructure & Cloud Strategy
- Executive Stakeholder Management
Timeline
Director - Head of Engineering - Controls Technology
Citigroup
02.2022 - Current
Senior Technology Lead
Citigroup
11.2011 - 02.2022
Senior Analyst Developer
Goldman Sachs
06.2011 - 11.2011
Senior Developer
CitiGroup
08.2010 - 06.2011
Technology Lead
Infosys Technologies Ltd
09.2002 - 08.2010
Software Engineer
Seminal Infotech, India
12.2001 - 08.2002
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Karnataka University