Chintan Kanani

About Chintan Kanani

Engineering leader with 20+ years of experience building and scaling high-performing teams across financial services and telecom. Currently at Goldman Sachs, driving large-scale cloud migration to AWS and Snowflake, and leading the adoption of AI-powered engineering workflows — including MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, intelligent code assistants, and automated testing frameworks — to elevate team productivity and delivery velocity.My career has been shaped by a core belief: great engineering leadership is about empowering people and removing friction. Whether it\'s architecting a distributed onboarding platform serving global Wealth Management clients, implementing enterprise-wide entitlement and caching systems, or championing AI integration across daily engineering workflows — I focus on building systems and teams that deliver measurable business impact.What I bring to the table:→ Deep expertise in data platform modernization, Data Lake/Lakehouse architectures, and cloud transformation→ Hands-on experience driving AI-augmented engineering practices across teams→ A track record of delivering complex platform initiatives under tight regulatory timelines→ Strong cross-functional collaboration with product, architecture, and business stakeholdersI\'m passionate about the intersection of engineering leadership and AI-driven innovation — helping teams work smarter, ship faster, and build systems that scale.Open to connecting on topics around engineering management, cloud transformation, AI in engineering workflows, and data platform strategy.

Experience

1. Vice President

   Goldman Sachs

   Jan 2016 — Present · Bangalore, IN

Education

• Nirma Institute of Technology , GUJARAT UNIVERSITY

  B.E, COMPUTER ENGINEERING

  2001 — 2005

Skills

• J2ee
• Ejb
• Ant
• Sip
• Xml
• Servlets
• Jdbc
• Eclipse
• Hibernate
• Jsp
• Jboss
• Struts
• Java
• Core Java