Zviad Ashvil

About Zviad Ashvil

Senior technology leader with a strong background in quality engineering, software development, program management, production assurance, and business systems analysis. Proven experience and insight building and optimizing a variety of technology organizational structures, including service delivery, product development, business-facing support functions, and technology CoE groups. Extensive background in the financial industry, supporting technology deliveries for Equity, Fixed Income, Electronic Trading, Regulatory Reporting, and F2B trade workflow and Operations. Built a career and brand in leading technology transformation, from planning to execution. Track record of achievements in technology delivery optimization across all aspects: people, processes, organizational structures, engagement models, Agile/DevOps adoption, innovative tooling, and automation. High-energy leadership combining big-picture vision with hands-on detail engagement. Niche in building high-performing global technology teams and developing innovative process optimization and technology solutions for business needs. Selected Career Highlights:• Led technology teams worldwide, supporting 300+ applications, with transparency and reporting to CIO and CTO levels. • Built technology CoE groups and developed innovative DevOps tooling solutions, including test automation, environment engineering, data masking, application dependency and workflow blueprinting, test coverage visualization, and others.• Led transformation programs that delivered 80%+ automated testing and reduced software delivery cycles from weeks to days, while substantially decreasing operating costs. • Led the testing practice for Morgan Stanley’s electronic trading platform, including 170+ systems across equity and fixed income. Delivered 100% automated testing solution running over 1 million tests nightly. • Managed multiple organizational transformation and vendor consolidation programs, involving 800+ consultants and FTEs, resulting in multi-million dollar savings. • Created a culture of quality ownership across all roles and built a brand of what optimized technology delivery looks like.• Spearheaded planning, execution, and successful agile delivery of three large regulatory and F2B testing programs: Mifid2, Brexit and Algorithmic Trade Remediation. Optimized delivery through distributed automation, collaboration tooling and F2B test environment automation.

Experience

1. Managing Director - Devsecops and Engineering Enablement

   Wells Fargo

   Mar 2021 — Present · NY, US

   Wealth and Investment Management Technology (WIMT)

Education

• New York University

  Financial Training

  2000

• PennWest Edinboro

  Bachelor of Science -, Computer Science and Mathematics

  1993 — 1995