Anil Karnewar
Technical Leader and Architect I Scale Platforms & Teams from 0→1 | 20+ Years Banking/Fintech | GCP • Microservices • Product Engineering | Built 40-Person Teams
- Role
- Senior Associate Director at 汇丰
- Location
- Hyderabad, TG, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Anil Karnewar
I am a Strategic Technical Authority with 20+ years of experience leading high-scale, product-led engineering teams. I specialize in bridging the gap between high-level business strategy and deep-tier execution to drive measurable growth and operational excellence.From SS & C to HSBC, I have pritortized and championed a \"Platform-as-a-Product\" mindset—transforming fragmented legacy ecosystems into agile, cloud-native engines that empower businesses to ship customer delight at scale.Strategic Impact Areas: Platform-as-a-Product: I treat internal infrastructure as a commercial product, prioritizing UX/UI and operational velocity to eliminate delivery friction. Organizational Scaling & OKRs: Expert at building from the ground up—scaling units from 0 to 40+ members using \"Team-of-Teams\" structures. I lead through OKRs, ensuring every architectural decision maps to a business milestone.🤖 Innovation & AI: I lead the architectural integration of Cloud platform, AI services and emerging stacks into core workflows, delivering measurable automation and blueprints for enterprise adaptation. Engineering Excellence (DORA): I move teams from \"delivery\" to \"excellence\" by institutionalizing data-driven KPIs. Leveraging DORA metrics, I consistently slash technical debt and maximize deployment frequency. Banking Modernization: I solve the industry\'s toughest challenges—from 6-second onboarding engines to sharded architectures for Data Sovereignty.Core Ecosystem: Multi-Cloud (GCP/Azure), Microservices, Domain-Driven Design Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), SRE/FinOps, and Product Management.I am a \"leader of leaders\" with an entrepreneurial mindset, committed to the belief that elite architecture is the primary accelerator of business growth.
Experience
Senior Associate Director
Mar 2024 — Present · Hyderabad, IN
Technical Authority in the Global Payment Solutions unit, delivering multi-year architectural vision for high-scale engineering and digital client experience. Govern the lifecycle of the Client Servicing Platform + Pricing and Billing Platform, orchestrating a hybrid ecosystem (GCP, Power Platform, ORMB) to drive mission-critical financial operations.Key Impacts: Organisational Scaling: Architected and scaled a global cross-functional engineering unit from inception to 40+ members, establishing a high-performance culture and team structure, to incept Client Servicing platform team.🤖 Innovation: Spearheaded the integration of multiple cloud platforms, Low-Code platforms and AI services into core workflows, automating client service journeys and creating the bank\'s blueprint for continuous tech adaptation. DORA Governance: Adapted DORA metrics and SRE frameworks; optimised Deployment Frequency (DF) and MTTR through automated quality gates. Capital Stewardship: Co-Accountable for technical alignment of a $2M investment lifecycle, ensuring architectural decisions maximize capital efficiency and long-term business ROI. Platform Modernisation: Bridged the gap between Business Strategy and Tech execution using Product Management methodologies, transforming the technology solutions into a scalable, high-value asset. Architectural Integrity: Accountable for the end-to-end design and seamless integration of cloud-native and legacy assets, maintaining 100% compliance with global banking standards.
Education
Institute of Product Leadership
Executive Post Graduate program in Product Management, Product Leadership & Development
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Master of Science (MS) with Thesis, Software Systems
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Finance and Technology
Skills
- Db2
- Requirements Analysis
- Software Project Management
- Sdlc
- Cobol
- Mainframe
- Business Analysis
- Quality Center
- Sql
- Testing
- Unix
- Oracle
- Cics
- Visio
- Data Warehousing
- Requirements Gathering
- - Completed Certified Business Analyst Training 32 Pdu’s.
- Mq Series
- Java
- Big Data
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