Rima Das

Vice President – Engineering | Payments Platforms | Real-Time & Bulk Payments | Scalable, High-Availability Systems| Citi, ex-HSBC

Role
Vice President at Citi
Location
Pune, MH, IN
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Rima Das

Senior Technology Leader with 14+ years of experience building and transformingCorporate Banking and Payment Initiation platforms across global financialinstitutions including Citibank and HSBC.I specialize in designing and leading high-availability, enterprise-scale paymentsystems across UI, File, API, and Host-to-Host (H2H) channels, supporting real-timeand batch payments.Currently, as Vice President – Technology, I lead global payment platformsprocessing ~100K transactions per day with 99.9% availability. I have drivenplatform modernization initiatives delivering ~30% faster deployments, reducedproduction incidents from 4–5 per year to 1–2 per year, and ensured near-zeroproduction issues for critical regulatory programs.I lead and influence cross-functional teams of ~30engineers across geographies, with a strong focus on operational excellence,resilience, and regulatory compliance.Open to senior leadership roles across BFSI and Fintech organizations, particularlyin payments, platform modernization, and large-scale enterprise systems.

Experience

  1. Vice President

    Citi

    Jan 2023 — Present

    Technology leadership for CitiConnect corporate payment platforms across UI, File, API, and H2H channels• Platforms process ~100K transactions per day with 99.9% availability• Worked on Technology modernisation on the current platform to increase availability and reducing costs by demising legacy applications• Led Maven-based modernization enabling ~30% faster deployments• Reduced production incidents from 4–5/year to 1–2/year through monitoring and impact analysis• Worked on various initiatives to improve risk reduction as well as enhanced monitoring • Delivered regulatory initiatives including India Data Localization with near-zero production issues• Led cross-geographical teams of around 30 engineers

Education

  • Loyola School

    ISC, Maths,Physics,Chemistry,Biology

    2004 — 2006

  • Beldih Church School

    ICSE

    1991 — 2004

  • Haldia Instituute of Technology

    Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician

    2007 — 2011

Skills

  • Spring
  • Spring Framework
  • Gwt
  • Ibatis
  • Sql
  • Databases
  • Core Java
  • J2ee Application Development
  • Javascript
  • Tomcat
  • Spring Webflow
  • Junit
  • Css
  • Jquery
  • Xml
  • Pl/Sql
  • Servlets
  • Eclipse

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