Rakhi Mitra

About Rakhi Mitra

Rakhi Mitra is VP - Global Banking & Markets Division at Goldman Sachs with 19 years of experience in highly regulated industries ( banking, healthcare ) with controls in building large enterprise grade distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant, maintainable applications with blend of deep-technology-expertise, software-delivery-leadership, management skills and financial services experience. She manages the global team of engineers who develop the investment banking cloud platform and engages, educates direct stakeholders with a focus on security and controls, to ensure banking operations remain complaint with regulations and owns relevant compliance aspects of the Investment Banking cloud platform. She provides thought leadership to drive standardisation across teams and processes to eliminate redundancy, reduce internal operating costs and enhance business productivity. As senior cloud engineer in Global Banking & Markets Division - she maintains and enhances Investment Banking cloud platform for application developers and provides technical advisory to enforce controls in their SDLC and developer experience, with minimal manual intervention and maximum automation. She has streamlined several business workflows by consolidating, integrating and uplifting applications onto strategic platforms, and driving automation initiatives. Rakhi is highly driven technology leader with extensive experience in defining strategies to deliver value-driven technology solutions. Prior to this she worked as Architect - DevOps of HealthSuite Insights ( a Data Science Platform & AI ) in the advance healthcare area of data science development environment of the world’s largest medical device company and a global leader in health technology, Philips. She also possesses multi-faceted experience & contributed in various capacities at Standard Bank, South Africa and Insurance Bureau of Canada in the areas of Banking & Insurance business IT consulting. She has PGDBA in Operations Management and Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Technology. She is certified SAFe® DevOps Practitioner.

Experience

1. Vice President Global Lead - Investment Banking Cloud Platform

   Goldman Sachs

   Apr 2021 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Cloud Platform - Global Lead for Investment Banking,(Global Banking & Markets Division) a foundational component to digitize entire Goldman Sach\'s Investment banking business on the cloud. Rakhi contributes in various capacities ranging from delivering Cloud infrastructure projects from design to operational stages, designing solutions at scale, developing and managing multi-region AWS infrastructure using IaC(Terraform), engagement management, program management, technology leadership, quality assurance, build and release engineering. She plays critical role in ensuring reliability, performance and scalability of Investment Banking Cloud infrastructure & SRE practices such as capacity planning, automation, incident mgmt, performance optimisation. She possesses deep ability to understand business requirements, articulate vision, evaluate risks and define roadmaps to strengthen IT capabilities, processes and system investments. She also leads the vision, strategy and technical roadmap for Cloud Platform, Developer experience, Onboarding, Operations including FinOPS and unified observability, that includes charter of accelerating firm\'s ability to digitally transform it\'s business with the best cloud infrastructure, platform, and industry observability solutions. She is an expert with software engineering security best practices in a cloud environment. Rakhi has built and managed medium to large size teams to accelerate automation and self-service mindset to drive change and possesses excellent collaboration skills coupled with strong analytical and problem solving abilities.In this technical leadership role, she also defines culture, hiring, growth and development of engineers to drive and execute on business digital transformation. Rakhi drives change and influences MD/C-level leadership in various forums with excellent understanding of DevOps principles and SDLC best practices and experience in replicating high standards across multiple technology domains.

Education

• D A V Public School

  12th, Science

  2001 — 2003

• Maharshi Dayanand University

  Bachelor of Engineering with Honors, Information Technology

  2003 — 2007

• Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Operations Management and Supervision

  2012 — 2014

Skills

• Asp.net Mvc
• Software Design Patterns
• Angularjs
• Moq
• Asp.net Web Api
• Node.js
• Solid Principles
• Jenkins
• Mongodb
• Couchbase
• Sonarqube
• Ninject
• .net
• Asp.net
• Wcf
• Jquery
• Web Services
• Git
• Scrum
• N1ql
• Sql
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Agile Methodologies
• Javascript
• Oracle
• Linux
• Ajax
• Ruby on Rails
• Ruby
• C# 4.0
• Sitecore
• Xslt
• Business Intelligence Tools
• Microservices
• Nant
• Loadrunner
• Selenium Testing
• Replication
• Xml
• Linq