Vikas Gupta

About Vikas Gupta

Author #DigitalTransformation #Banking #Fintech #AIClient Facing Cross-Functional Strategic Leader with 20+ years of experience in enterprise professional services and fintech—expert at building cross-functional teams and scaling delivery and client engagement. I started as a software developer, grew into technology management, ran a startup, and currently manage technology implementation, professional services & delivery.Vikas has experience in Digital banking, Payments, EBPP (bill pay), Capital Markets (entire electronic trading stack, algo trading, Smart Order Router), telecom and internet industry, where he has served in various roles like technical program manager, director, software development manager, vice president IT and software developer with proven record of driving top line revenue growth.He has worked on multiple layers such as Client facing, Business Development, Software Architect, Development and Sales. He has worked across range of technologies, including internet consumer focused web technologies, enterprise software solutions and low latency electronic trading systems.He helped his companies take strategic decisions by collaborating with cross functional teams to identify customer needs, build new products, and recommend feature upgrades to the existing products to innovate in ever changing market. He is a seasoned leader with proven abilities to lead large scale projects through entire life cycle at large technology focused companies such asBackbase, Paymentus, Wells Fargo, Synechron, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Bloomberg, Lucent, AT & T, Verizon, and Daewoo Telecom.Vikas holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science & Engineering.Specialties:•Digital Banking•Technology Program Management•Cross Functional Leadership•Client Relationship Management•Product Management•Product Roadmap•Ability to work and communicate effectively across functional groups and team building•Excellent data analysis and problem solving skills•Software Development Life cycle•Scalability, Low Latency, Availability & Fault Tolerance Expert•Cloud, DevOps & Agile•C++, Python, Core Java•Authored books

Experience

1. Head of Implementation Professional Services North American Enterprise Clients

   Backbase

   Jan 2021 — Present · US

   Leading the implementation of Omnichannel Digital Banking Solution - Latest tech stack with Microservices architecture backend, Journey-based Web and Mobile apps - On-Prem/Cloud (cloud agnostic) and Managed Hosting SaaS (Backbase as a Service). Empowering Banks and Credit Unions with digital transformation to compete against Neo banks.Serve as Head of Implementations for a portfolio of $30B+ AUM enterprise clients. Leading several digital banking implementations in various stages on both managed hosted BaaS and on-prem/cloud. Client-facing role managing several cross-functional teams of Solution Architects, Business Analysts, Frontend, Backend & Mobile Developers, QA, and DevOps engaged in agile product implementation, development & delivery (Scrum and SAFe).Deep expertise in end-to-end Digital Banking implementations, from infrastructure setup and core banking integration (FIS, Fiserv, Jack Henry, Oracle Flexcube, Finxact) to managing complex fintech ecosystems with several third-party integrations, Upgrades, Deprecations etc. I emphasize out-of-the-box adoption while balancing necessary customizations and technical debt, ensuring scalability and efficiency. My experience includes overseeing large-scale data migrations, driving feature enhancements into product roadmaps, and mitigating project risks associated with contracts, certifications, and environment setup. All of this is delivered through agile frameworks to accelerate time-to-value and maximize customer success.

Education

• Rackspace Cloud University

  CloudU Certificate

• Kendriya Vidyalaya

  Maths and Science

• Harcourt Butler Technical University

  B.Tech (BS), Computer Science & Engineering

• Manipal Academy of Higher Education

  Post Graduate Certificate Program in Cloud Computing and AI

• Harcourt Butler Technical University

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science

Skills

• Derivatives
• Market Data
• Java
• Leadership
• Capital Markets
• Agile Methodologies
• Financial Markets
• Management
• People Management
• Unix
• Operations Management
• Agile Application Development
• Project Delivery
• Equity Trading
• Consulting
• Trading Strategies
• Fixed Income
• Client Relations
• Jira
• Sdlc
• Routing
• Multithreading
• Vendor Management
• Business Development
• Author
• Options
• Equities
• Requirements Analysis
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Equity Derivatives
• Sql
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Trading Systems
• Electronic Trading
• C++
• Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
• Business Analysis
• Program Delivery Management
• Strategy