Tanay Vaidya
This professional possesses ten years of experience in enterprise technology and platform delivery for the banking and financial services sector. The professional maintains end-to-end ownership of large-scale technical integrations, including real-time trading and payment systems. Strengths include architecture design and production operations for mission-critical data platforms.
Work Experience:
10 Years 6 months Years
Industry:
Consulting & Strategy, General Management, IT & Systems Management, Product Management, Project & Program Management, Software Engineering
Function:
Technology | Banking Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI) | Consulting
FirstRand Services Pvt. Ltd: Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), South Africa (69 Months)
Software Integration Developer (Middleware) April '20-Current
• Currently acting as an Individual Contributor (Developer), owning end-to-end delivery of real-time integration solutions from requirement analysis and feasibility to development, testing, production deployment, and post-go-live support.
• Designed and delivered integration capabilities for mission-critical platforms (Trading, Funding, SWIFT, Counterparty Data), ensuring high availability, data accuracy, and regulatory compliance across the group.
• Contributed to enterprise architecture initiatives, including data warehouse migration (CDH → GS) and SWIFT ISO migration, converting complex business and regulatory needs into scalable integration designs.
• Supported platform modernization and cloud readiness by executing POCs for containerized integration using TIBCO Container Edition, Docker, and OpenShift, focusing on reliability, observability, and future scalability.
• Served as a platform owner at execution level, handling L3 production escalations, peer code reviews, and stability of 400+ production integrations across multiple business units.
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. (22 Months)
Integration Platform | Senior Developer/Deputy Manager July '18-April 20
• Acted as developer and execution lead on a high-performance enterprise data integration platform supporting 340+ million live customers, focused on low-latency, high-scale data access.
• Designed and delivered scalable web services for data ingestion and querying on an in-memory, cluster-based architecture, collaborating with SAP and UI teams to convert business requirements into reliable solutions.
• Contributed to platform modernization initiatives, including migration from TIBCO BW to Spring Boot and adoption of open-source and containerized technologies to improve scalability, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
• Provided execution and operational ownership, including code reviews, L3 production support, deployment coordination, monitoring enablement (Prometheus/Grafana), and onboarding and technical training of new team members.
BNP Paribas India Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (37 Months)
International Trade, Corporate Banking IT | Jr. Software Engineer -> Software Engineer June '15-July '18
• Worked on enterprise trade finance platforms (TMX, eWare, SwiftNet Trade), enabling secure messaging, document warehousing, and SWIFT-based interbank communication.
• Owned middleware integration delivery using TIBCO BW, covering feasibility analysis, technical design, development, testing, UAT, and production rollout.
• Contributed to platform stability and modernization, including SSL server migrations, repository migration (Dimensions → SVN), deployment automation, and Java web application maintenance.
• Demonstrated high ownership early in career by independently handling end-to-end development and releases during a prolonged resource crunch, alongside L3 production support.
• International research paper on Analog Haptic Robotic Arm published in International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research (IJSER), Vol. 5, Issue 1 (Jan 2014).
• First Runner-Up, QuEST Ingenium (Pan-India; 6,000+ entries) for Quick PCB Machine; project sponsored by DST–IEDC, Govt. of India (2014–15).
• TCS Best Project Award (Academic Year 2014–15).
• Team Leader & Manual Robot Operator, ABU ROBOCON 2013 & 2014 (Asia-Pacific); secured AIR 22; led Electronics function.
• Joint Technical Head, Electronics Engineering Students’ Association (2012–13).
• Winner at District & Ward-level Science Exhibitions; represented Mumbai at State-level Exhibition (2006).
• Selected for National Earth Festival (2003), National Bal Bhavan, New Delhi.
- MBA (General Management), Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2024–26
- BE (Electronics), Fr. CRCE (Mumbai University), 2011-2015
- Vice President - Swami Vivekanand Yuva Pratishthan, (Formar Assistant-Secretary 2018-2023)