EVP, Technology Operations, Service Governance
Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited
Mar 2023 - Oct 2025
• Developed IT operating models across App Factory, TechOps, DevOps, SRE, and vendor management for banking and capital markets, achieving zero tolerance for downtime with 99.99% SLA.
• Led infrastructure and application stack modernization, enabling high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and strong regulatory audit governance.
• Built and scaled in-house engineering teams to drive automation, streamline operations, and boost tooling adoption.
• Pioneered observability solutions and automated key workflows; reduced resource-intensive workloads, improved costs and MTTR, and optimized resource allocation.
• Advanced risk and compliance initiatives, matured ITSM for change, incident, and problem management, driving product stability, higher NPS, and improved integrator scores.
• Mentored and coached teams on technical upskilling and cross-domain expertise to foster career development.