Shital Wadhwa

About Shital Wadhwa

Summary - Highly accomplished digital engineering leader with 25+ years of experience building, modernizing, and scaling enterprise-grade platforms. Proven ability to lead the adoption & creation of AI applications, intelligent automation, and developer productivity platforms across complex, regulated environments. Experience and expertise in emerging AI technologies, GenAI enablement, cloud-architecture, and large-scale agile delivery. Outcome-driven servant leader known for building elite teams, driving cultural change, and delivering measurable business impact. Passionate, and determined to deliver high intensity work with an excellent work ethic.Executive Highlights - 25+ yrs of experience leading large-scale digital engineering organizations delivering mission-critical, customer-facing platforms in healthcare and financial services- AI & GenAI transformation leader and trusted change agent driving enterprise learning, adoption, and responsible use of emerging AI technologies including GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, and GenAI platforms- Completed Google Generative AI Certification, strengthening executive-level capability in GenAIstrategy, AI-native product thinking, and responsible AI adoption- Proven ability to embed AI into software delivery lifecycles, improving developer productivity, codequality, automation, & time-to-market- Established engineering standards, governance, and operating models across CI/CD, TDD, automation, code quality & security- Champion working on troubled projects with high resilience to deliver them successfully- Expert in Spotify development model, certified in Scaled Agile Framework SAFE Agilist(SA), SAFE Release train Engineer (RTE), Scaled Agile Program Consultant (SPC), experience scaling agile delivery across 40+ teams- Strong people-first leader, building high-performing teams, mentoring leaders, & fostering continuous learning & innovation cultures.Technologies & Platforms - AI / GenAI: GitHub Copilot, MS Copilot, Gen AI Platforms, AI/ML, TensorFlow / PyTorch- Cloud: GCP, Anthos, Azure, AWS, PCF, IBM Bluemix- Architecture: Microservices, REST, Kafka, MQ, RabbitMQ, SOA,JSON - Engineering: Java.NET/Core.NET Framework, C#, Python, Node.js, React, Angular, TypeScript, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), F5 - Data & Integration: SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Postgres, Redis, Apigee- Testing/QA: TestNg, Mocha, Jasmine, Selenium, MABL- DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub, Bitbucket, SonarQube- Observability: Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog- Agile: Jira, Confluence, Rally

Experience

1. Digital Experience Engineering Leader

   Charles Schwab

   May 2022 — Present

   Lead enterprise digital platforms supporting customer onboarding, funding, and activation experiences at scale- Championed AI-assisted engineering practices, encouraging adoption of Copilot tools and automation to improve velocity and quality- Defined and executed technology and engineering strategy, aligning architecture, product roadmaps, and delivery outcomes- Led development of the TD Ameritrade Digital Welcome Experience supporting large-scale clientmigration- Lead the Rep Assisted Digital Envelope experience and its integration with Salesforce, Docusign and various other internal Schwab teams- Built and mentored geographically distributed teams; led hiring, performance management, andleadership development- Directed front-end modernization using Angular within distributed engineering teams- Implemented AI POC for Integration of language externalization delivered to production- Established a culture of engineering excellence, experimentation, and continuous improvement.Technology Used - GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Generative AI Platforms, GCP, Anthos, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF).NET/Core, C#, KAFKA, MQ, Javascript Frameworks - Angular and Typescript, Front End UI - HTML and CSS, MongoDB, Postgres, Redis, Apigee, Jenkin CI/CD, DEVOPS, Github, bitbucket, MABL Automation, Jira, Confluence, Rally

Education

• Sydenham College - University of Mumbai

  Masters Degree - Business, Banking and International Finance

  1996 — 1998

• Jai Hind College Basantsing Institute of Science and J T Lalvani College of Commerce 23 24 Backba Reclamation A Road Churchgate Mumbai 400 020

  Bachelor's degree, Economics

  1991 — 1996

• UCLA Extension

  Professional Web Development, Computer Science

• Walsingham House School

  Indian Certificate of secondary Education (ICSE)

  1980 — 1991

• Aptech Computer education

  Masters Diploma in Software Engineering, Software Engineering

  1993 — 1996

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Sql
• Visio
• Agile Project Management
• Hibernate
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Web Services
• Advantage Gen
• Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
• J2ee Application Development
• Sdlc
• Jsf
• Java
• J2ee 1.4
• Junit
• Db2
• Websphere
• Core Java
• Soa
• Websphere Application Server
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Enterprise Architecture
• Javascript
• Web Applications
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Lean Management
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Portal Development
• Requirements Gathering
• Content Management
• Jstl
• Jdbc
• Struts
• J2ee Web Services
• Xml
• Unix
• Websphere Portal
• Goldengate