Sankha Basak
Vice President @Goldman Sachs
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WORK HISTORY
Vice President @Goldman Sachs
GB
Architecting and building a greenfield, next-generation payments settlement platform.• Owning system design across incoming payments, liquidity projection, reconciliation, and reporting services.• Leading a team of 10 engineers; driving architectural standards, design reviews, and technical roadmap decisions.• Improving STP rates using ISO 20022 structured data and ML-driven advanced matching algorithms.• Designing highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems for high-volume financial transactions.
EDUCATION
Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur
School, General Studies
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal formerly WBUT
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science
SKILLS
ABOUT SANKHA BASAK
Lead / Staff Software Engineer with 13+ years of experience designing and scaling high-throughput, distributed systems for enterprise platforms. I build lean, resilient architectures that process millions of transactions daily with high reliability, performance, and security.At Goldman Sachs, I lead the design and development of a next-generation payments and settlement platform, driving system architecture, liquidity projection, and Straight-Through Processing (STP) optimization using ISO 20022 structured messaging and machine learning–based matching algorithms.Previously at Amazon and Adobe, I delivered large-scale payroll and subscription systems that improved operational efficiency by up to 75%, strengthened compliance, and reduced third-party dependencies through pragmatic, in-house engineering solutions.I bring strong ownership, architectural insight, and a results-driven mindset — solving complex engineering problems with simple, scalable solutions while mentoring teams to deliver business-critical systems at scale.Technical Skills: Java • Distributed Systems • Microservices & SOA • Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka) • System Design • SQL & NoSQL • AWS Cloud • ISO 20022 • Drools • Workflow AutomationDomain Expertise: Payments & Settlement • Liquidity & STP Optimization • Payroll • AP/AR • Subscription Lifecycle • Healthcare Claims • Messaging & ITSM Integrations (Slack, ServiceNow) • Enterprise Workflow & Compliance
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