Vani Saini

Vani saini

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Engineering Director, Global Loyalty & Benefits Platform

  • Education

    • Institute of engineering and technology (i.e.t), bhaddal

      2002 - 2006
      Bachelor’s degree information technology

      Activities and Societies: Founder Member of the Information Technology society TEXS at Institute of Engineering and Technology, Bhaddal, Ropar, Punjab. University Academics Winner for 2004, 2005 and 2006 in Information Technology. Received annual scholarship. Academics Projects:Central Scientific Instrumentation Organization (C.S.I.O.), ChandigarhSix Months (from July2005 to Dec 2005)Worked on “Semi-Automated Printed Circuit Inspection System” which automates the inspection of Printed Circuit Board using Active Matrox Imaging Library for Image Processing. B.C.S Computers Private Limited, Chandigarh Two… Show more University Academics Winner for 2004, 2005 and 2006 in Information Technology. Received annual scholarship. Academics Projects:Central Scientific Instrumentation Organization (C.S.I.O.), ChandigarhSix Months (from July2005 to Dec 2005)Worked on “Semi-Automated Printed Circuit Inspection System” which automates the inspection of Printed Circuit Board using Active Matrox Imaging Library for Image Processing. B.C.S Computers Private Limited, Chandigarh Two Months (from June2004 to July 2004)Developed the software “Hospital Management Systems” which automates the working of Hospital using Visual Basic 6.0 as programming tool. Show less

    • Kendriya vidyalaya

      2000 - 2002
      High school mathematics and computer science

      Activities and Societies: “National Youth Parliament” Winner 2000-2001.

  • Experience

    • Infosys

      Sept 2006 - Feb 2018

      ● Designed & developed core backbone global Web service responsible for handling customer transactions, pending charges, balances & cycles details focusing on test driven development. ● Leading product transformation from waterfall to agile methodology. ● People Leader of more that 8 team members. ● Worked on several projects for various banking clients across the globe. ● Web application for Hedge Funds clients. Developed modules with complex business and legal requirements to compute fees and incentives for clients.● Received “Most Valuable Player” award from Infosys. ● Started from scratch to learn ins and outs of SDLC.● Developed coding skills and built professional ethics.● Started ongoing process to improve every day. ● Started from scratch to learn ins and outs of SDLC.● Developed coding skills and built professional ethics.● Started ongoing process to improve every day.

      • Project Manager

        Jan 2014 - Feb 2018
      • Technology Lead

        Sept 2010 - Jan 2014
      • Technology Analyst

        Jun 2008 - Aug 2010
      • Software Engineer

        Sept 2006 - May 2008
    • Intraedge

      Mar 2018 - Sept 2019
      Technical project manager

      ● Managing large scale global web application for online card activation & registration for American Express. ● Technical solutioning & delivery of registration experience for small business and consumer lending products and activation journey improvement. ● Leading a 12-member team, providing mentorship & coaching.

    • American express

      Oct 2019 - now

      Leading Platform Engineering team for R42 Loyalty Platform, and overseeing key initiatives - - Leading development of internal system for handling unfinished events in platform, developing dashboards and tooling helping support team for faster issue resolution- Focused work towards developing several business & tech dashboards, set up alerting and proactive monitoring helping engineers, product and production support - Led Disaster Recovery execution for entire R42 platform covering 44 micro services, bringing in architectural improvements for highly resilient system. - Improving observability with realtime metrics, and establishing Service Level Objectives over platform surface area.- Stabilizing production by resolving persistent root causes, and drastically reduced incident count, 100% reduction in MTTR - Ongoing development and shepherding of robust next-generation regression test framework with underlying Kubernetes infrastructure- Continued focus on developing tooling bringing in best developer experience and automating the product needs. Leading efforts on technology efficiencies and tooling across Amex technology organization. Core responsibilities also includes significant coaching and career development across three scrum teams and one production support team Show less ● Responsible for driving strategy, execution and delivery of unifying customer Digital Acquisitions experience across globe including prospect card & loan online acquisitions, Supplementary Card Acquisitions, Instant Card Number, Activation & Registration. ● Designed and Developed Omni-Channel experience using React and back-end using FAAS & Event Driven (Kafka) architecture for American express website.● Hiring best talent for digital acquisitions organization & setting up scrum teams, practicing servant leadership.● People Leader - Managed and mentored team of 8 and more. Show less

      • Engineering Director, Global Loyalty & Benefits Platform

        Sept 2021 - now
      • Acting Director - Technology Delivery Enablement

        Jun 2021 - Sept 2021
      • Technical Project Manager

        Oct 2019 - Sept 2021
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Sun certified java programmer

      Sun microsystems
      Jul 2008
    • Safe 4.0 agilist

      Scrum alliance
    • Safe 5 po/pm

      Scaled agile, inc.
      Feb 2020
    • Pmi acp

      Project management institute
      Sept 2017
      View certificate certificate
    • Certified scrum master

      Scrum alliance
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Vani Saini
      Most Valuable Player Infosys Limited Apr 2010 Received MVP (Most Valuable Player) for contributions in Incentive Fee Module, Claris. Handled all the backend layer design and coded using Hibernate and core Java.