Kamal Singh

Responsibilities

• Lead Consumer Identity Platform teams to build no code/low code identity platform with mandate to deliver secure, seamless and resilient experience to external stakeholders - customers and partners in AWS cloud.
• Oversee strategic direction and decisions of Identity Builder Platform.
• Direct organization consisting 3 Sr. Managers, 4 Managers and 4 agile teams of 40 Software Engineers.
• Deliver platform capabilities for all business initiatives by providing single pattern of solution for all identity problems.
• Deliver on Enterprise Platform imperatives for Consumer Identity, strategic direction championed by CEO to make Capital One Platform Company.
• Lead, guide and mentor people leaders (Sr Managers and Managers).
• Spearhead innovative approaches to resource allocation and strategic planning.
• Conduct goal setting and performance reviews of subordinates.

Achievements

• Upgraded Identity platform from Gold to Platinum Enterprise application by achieving less than15 minutes RTO/RPO
• Tuned platform to be able to handle 3X traffic volume with 99.999 % availability
• Elevated talent by hiring more than 10 engineers within 6 months at Capital One
• Owned budget of more than $5 million for resource planning and execution.

Technologies: EC2, Redis, Amazon RDS, Cloud Watch, Terraform, ECS, Docker, Spring Boot, RESTful API, Camel, DMN (decision engine), Snowflake, Splunk, Data Dog, New Relic

Responsibilities

• Lead organization-wide technology strategy on API development.
• Provide technical directions in design sessions collaborated by Solution Architects and Engineers.
• Lead strategic direction on digital transformation to microservices and cloud solutions.
• Conduct managerial duties of budgeting/yearly reviews/resource planning/annual goal setting for all direct reports.

Achievements

• Increased business scope and team output by three-fold by expanding team from 8 members to 35 members over 4 years, with onsite and offshore combinations (Worldpay/FIS).
• Delivered enterprise CI/CD pipeline and automated deployment standards by partnering with DevOps team that resulted in Enterprise Standards on building pipelines.
• Led 4 teams of 40 developers in analysis and build of Enterprise APIs software from beginning design through completion.
• Led multiple teams and delivered on FIS/Worldpay integration initiatives in Merchant and Financial Institution space after acquisition of Worldpay by FIS
• Led and managed multiple high performing Development teams on planning, directing and coaching for 4+ years that accomplished integration of Vantiv/Worldpay/FISGlobal systems integration with revenues exceeding $60 million after company acquisition.

Responsibilities

• Execute appropriate planning, directing and controlling resources and budgetary plans to align with business forecasts to ensure timely delivery.
• Lead and provided technical directions in design sessions with Solution Architects and Engineers.
• Supervise, mentor and provide leadership to team of 28 members divided into three agile scrum teams working under Scaled Agile Framework.
• Oversaw integration of APIs developed/owned by my teams with several internal and external clients.
• Oversaw all releases from planning to execution to ensure flawless production releases.

Achievements

• Built outstanding and dynamic team of software engineers and developers which significantly boosted overall success of organization increasing ownership of APIS from ~20 to more than 100.
• Elevated talent by hiring 20 resources that included two Principal Engineers that resulted in increase in team's delivery capacity.
• Promoted two Senior Engineers to Principal Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead API team and Vantiv iQ portal team in parallel, managing technical aspects of both teams in agile framework
• Advise resource manager in resource assignment
• Provide technical directions and coordinated architectural design sessions
• Conduct and participated in code review sessions
• Manage, prioritize, plan and participated in periodic releases.

Achievements

• Owned and led multiple API project teams and Vantiv iQ portal teams and delivered more than 20 products such as: Merchant Transaction Research, FI Transaction Research, Discover Transaction Research, Vantiv Dispute Management, Discover Dispute Management, Virtual Terminal, Vantiv Reports, Discover Reports, ATM Lifecycle, Menu Adj, Card Production Inventory, Card Management

• Developed code using Java and other programming languages to support digital repository frameworks and integrate systems comprising of more than 10 APIs.
• Conducted and participated in code review sessions.
• Translated customer and system requirements into robust software design with test-driven approach.
• Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
• Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
• Prioritized, planned and managed periodic releases

• Trained new developers and programmers on company standards for design and review.
• Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality.
• Conducted and participated in code review sessions
• Planned and managed periodic releases
• Participated in application architectural design meetings to formulate framework designs

• Experiences involve extensive C programming in HP Unix, QNX and shell scripting for eight years at GAP Inc developing retail supply chain software and warehouse management systems. Details are available upon request