Nirmal Shah

About Nirmal Shah

Strategic and results-driven technology leader with over two decades of experience in financial services, specializing in digital transformation, engineering leadership, AI adoption, and process optimization. Adept at leading global technology teams, managing multi-million-dollar budgets, and driving operational excellence through innovation. Passionate about leveraging technology to enhance efficiency, scalability, and customer experience while fostering high-performing teams.In my current role at Citi, I am building a brand new team in India to support, enhance and modernize global equity derivative risk platform leveraging the engineering excellence, AI tools and agile execution. My current focus includes driving AI adoption to solve real business problems, digital transformation initiatives, fostering agile practices, and implementing scalable architectures to meet the demands of high-volume, data-driven financial systems. Passionate about building diverse, high-performing teams, I contribute to shaping technology roadmaps that align with business objectives.

Experience

1. Sr Engineering Manager Markets Technology - Equity Derivatives Risk

   Citi

   May 2025 — Present · Pune, IN

   Building a new engineering team in India to support and enhance the Global Equity Derivatives Risk Platform, focusing on reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement.• Driving practical AI adoption, using appropriate tools to solve real business problems and improve engineering efficiency.• Leading digital transformation efforts, encouraging agile ways of working and improving collaboration across teams.• Implementing scalable architectures to handle large volumes of data and meet the evolving needs of financial systems.• Promoting engineering best practices, combining modern technologies and process improvements to deliver better outcomes.

Education

• Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya - JNV

  SSC / HSC, Science

  1996 — 1998

• Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat

  B Tech., Computer Science Engineering

  2001 — 2004

• A.V.Parekh Technical Institute,Rajkot 602

  Diploma, Computer Science Engineering

  1999 — 2001

Skills

• Visual Studio
• Asp.net
• People Management
• Wpf
• Xml
• Jquery
• Sybase Ase
• Requirements Analysis
• Jira
• Sybase Iq
• Web Services
• Technical Leadership
• Scrum
• Bamboo
• Ooad
• C#
• .net
• Sql Server 2000-2008
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Linq
• Tfs
• Perforce
• Ado.net
• Service Oriented Architecture Design
• Sharepoint
• Asp.net Mvc
• Technical Project Leadership
• Ssrs
• Entity Framework
• Project Estimation
• Project Implementation
• Release Management
• Xslt
• Tortoise Svn
• Cruisecontrol
• Asp.net Ajax
• Sybase
• Javascript
• Test Driven Development
• Wordpress