Ashok Kandula
Assistant Vice President @ DBS Bank | Driving Technology Solutions | FinTech & Real-Time Payments | Java, Spring Boot, OpenShift, Kafka, AMQ | Cloud & Distributed Systems
- Role
- Assistant Vice President at 星展银行
- Location
- Hyderabad, TG, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ashok Kandula
Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience building large-scale, high-availability payment systems in the FinTech industry.Currently working at DBS Bank, contributing to critical real-time payment platforms, including Singapore FAST Payments and Hong Kong FPS. I specialise in designing and delivering scalable distributed systems that handle high transaction volumes with strong reliability and performance requirements.Key areas of expertise include:• Real-Time Payment Systems• Backend Engineering with Java & Spring Boot• Messaging Systems (Red Hat AMQ, Kafka, IBM MQ)• Cloud & Container Platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)• Infrastructure Modernisation and Platform Migration• CI/CD Automation and DevOps practicesSome key achievements include:• Led migration of Singapore FAST Payments platform to an open-source API architecture.• Delivered FPS bulk payment systems processing transactions and HKD $0.37B.• Led migration from VMware infrastructure to OpenShift Container Platform.• Performed major upgrades, including JBoss EAP 7.4 → 8.0, and JDK 17 adoption.• Built automation solutions for AMQ cluster failover and deployment pipelines.I enjoy solving complex distributed system challenges and building resilient financial infrastructure.Always open to discussions around:FinTech | Distributed Systems | High Performance Systems | Platform Engineering
Experience
Assistant Vice President
Mar 2026 — Present · Hyderabad, IN
Education
Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering (Autonomous), 530048(CC-13)
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Mathematics and Computer Science
2014 — 2018
Aakash Institute Hyderabad
XII, Intermediate Education
2011 — 2013
St.Anns School
Higher Education/Higher Education Administration
1999 — 2008
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