Santhosh Akuthota

Director of Engineering at Cognizant

Role
Director of Engineering at Cognizant
Location
Hyderabad, TG, IN
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Santhosh Akuthota

Led and Delivered Global Payments Platform for Citi Private Bank group (High Net Worth Individuals, Family Offices Clients etc) across the regions with enhanced entitlements, digital payment authorization, streamlined business/operational workflows, enriched controls for automated risk management and seamless integration with the payment networks- Managed Transactional wealth platforms that offers various products (Banking, Deposits, Lending, Investments) initiated by Bankers, Service Officers, and Operations team on behalf of clients comprising solutions of workflows, regulatory compliance (Travel Rule, Dodd/Frank, GDPR, PSD2), Fraud Controls, and various System Integrations like SWIFT etc- Strong experience delivering various end to end solutions in Banking, Deposits, Lending, Investments etc- Led and delivered - modernization journeys for the retails customers based on cloud ( AWS, GCP etc) and open source/java platforms- Handled complex multiple Big Data solutions based on distributed architectures using Cassandra, Spark, Solr, Pulsar etc- Managed Global teams to deliver the projects/solutions across the regions- Experience in building complex enterprise scale applications using Java, Micro Services, Spring Boot & Framework, BPM Workflows, Containerization, Open Shift/Kubernetes, Messaging and Streaming using (MQ/Kafka/Pulsar), Web Services, Angular/SPA, Caching etc- Experience in delivering Big Data based solutions using distributed technologies Cassandra, Mongo, Spark, Spark ML, Kafka/Pulsar, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) etc.

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering

    Cognizant

    Dec 2025 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

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