Gaurav Kohli

About Gaurav Kohli

Over 15 years of leadership experience architecting, developing and integrating enterprise software in Financial and Telecommunications industries. Competencies include:* Managing long-term and cross product issues to achieve concrete results* ROI analysis and technology to business alignment* Building strong relationships and reciprocative partnerships across the enterprise * Guiding and energizing a highly technical teams, from the developer to management* Motivating communicator, adept at building bridges between business and technology* Leading complex change by articulating a clear strategy and gaining shared vision with staff * Collaboratively architecting secure, high transaction and scalable enterprise systemsSpecialties: Management: Technology strategy layout, budgeting, vendor and contract negotiations, career and performance management, managing build vs. buy decision, process implementation, building cohesive teams, enterprise wide presentations, industry panelsTechnical:Scalability, security, Web 2.0, BAM, BPM, SOA, ESB, J2EE, Data Services, data warehouses, various commercial packages, rule engines. UML and design patterns, application life-cycle management.

Experience

1. Global CTO

   Snap Finance

   Jan 2021 — Present

   Snap Finance is a rapidly growing digital finance company that specializes in No Credit Needed consumer financing in both brick and mortar and e-commerce merchants. The Snap lease-purchase agreement is an innovative financial product which gives consumers with subprime credit (40% of the US population) an alternative to payday loans and other high-risk financial products to finance the things they need.

Education

• San José State University

  Bachelors of Science, Computer Engineering

  1989 — 1992

• Santa Clara University

  Digital Signal Processing

  1993 — 1994

• St Peters College

  High School, Science Major

  1980 — 1986

Skills

• Strategy
• Mobile Payments
• Agile Project Management
• Product Management
• Cloud Computing
• Data Warehousing
• Distributed Systems
• Soa
• Design Patterns
• Uml
• Scalability
• IT Strategy
• Esb
• Leadership
• Web Applications
• Integration
• Telecommunications
• Product Development
• Product Marketing
• Saas
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Business Process Design
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Sdlc