Harshad Parulekar

About Harshad Parulekar

Adopted an owner\'s mindset as an employee, driving tangible results in the financial services industry.I am a seasoned IT leader with an established track record in :• Implement business continuity (BCP) & disaster recovery (DR) plans to ensure operational resilience.• Manage IT P&L. • Multi-party negotiations.• Recruitment and mentoring of large teams.• AWS Cost Optimisation Audit• Design and implement scalable systems to support organizational growth.• Enterprise blockchain initiatives, delivering innovative solutions.• Formulate a business-centric multi-cloud strategy to optimize performance and flexibility.• Establish a robust cloud security framework, achieving full compliance with regulatory standards.

Experience

1. VP - Technology Transformation

   HDFC Life

   May 2024 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Architected and deployed a comprehensive Cloud Disaster Recovery (DR) framework, ensuring 99.9% business continuity for critical digital assets.• Established organizational DevOps standards, including CI/CD best practices and security gates.• Implemented an observability layer spanning multi-cloud environments, delivering comprehensive visibility and performance metrics.• Established and led the architectural governance process for new product launches, ensuring 100% compliance with Infosec standards.• Delivered the blockchain project, revolutionizing settlement processes by reducing TAT from T+2 to real-time with an accuracy of 99%.• Implemented flexible, scalable, and secure multi-cloud connectivity solution, transforming organizational connectivity across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.• Implemented multi cloud FinOps tool for enhancing project-wise cost visibility.

Education

• University of Mumbai

  M.C.A, Computer Application

  2003 — 2006

• University of Mumbai

  M.B.A, Information management

  2010 — 2013

Skills

• Project Delivery
• Vendor Management
• IT Service Management
• Change Management
• Sdlc
• Test Management
• Solution Architecture
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Pmp
• Red Hat Linux
• Service Delivery
• Business Analysis
• Global Delivery
• Team Management
• IT Strategy
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process
• Analysis
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Itil
• Pre-Sales