Avdhut Vaidya

Experience

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  Binary Web Solutions (I) Pvt Ltd

  Nov 2013 - Feb 2015

  PHP Developer

  - Spearheaded the development of customizations to the Shopify framework, using Ruby on Rails platform- Developed a fully customized Open-source CRM solution for a Real Estate Agency- Development of Content Management Systems in Core PHP for a Media conglomerate- Worked on Android App Development, Payment gateway integration and social media integration- Creation of an online apparel store from ground up based on the Opencart platform

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  C2L BIZ Solutions Pvt Ltd

  Mar 2015 - Jan 2019

  Responsible for developing functionalities for Insurance-based mobile apps- Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for data population & validation - Fingerprint-based app authenticationDeveloped ‘e-Onboarding’ mobile app for insurance agent onboardingManaging a team of developers in the product team, and training them to enhance existing/new frameworks developed in-house Responsible for developing functionalities for Insurance-based mobile apps- Machine Learning based ‘Chatbot’- On-device underwriting evaluation in offline mode- Development of configuration based UI and validation framework- Offline PDF generation from dynamic HTML Responsible for developing functionalities for Insurance-based mobile apps- Secure app-to-app communication on mobile devices

  • Associate Solution Architect (Product Team)

    Feb 2017 - Jan 2019

  • Analyst Programmer (Product Team)

    Mar 2016 - Feb 2017

  • Software Developer (Product Team)

    Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
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  MSCI Inc.

  Feb 2019 - Jun 2024

  Consolidated all application environments with focus on environment isolation, ease of setup, operational efficiency and cost benefit. Removed redundant environments from the critical path of production deployments. Optimized resources and databases resulting in savings of ~$23,000/month.Migrated the user entitlements within a legacy ESG web application to a modern centralized platform with focus on empowering the end client user to manage their own entitlements in addition to the existing sales operations team. The scope covered ~85000 users across ~8000 permission categories to be migrated to the new entitlements platform.Designed and developed an event-based architecture for generating and delivering ESG data feed files for private companies and historical ESG data associated with public companies. Highlights of the project involved usage of Databricks for feed generation and QC with end-to-end state management and telemetry. The system was designed to scale horizontally in case of increase in delivery volume as well as be compatible to support additional scenarios of data delivery.Migrated ~28 applications with a mix of legacy and modern applications from Azure to GCP. It required transforming the applications to leverage GCP equivalents of native Azure resources such as Pub-Sub, Cloud SQL, GKE, etc. Show less Enhanced distribution workflow delivering ~4000 client feeds daily, to use event driven parallel processing with ~400 Azure Kubernetes Service pods scaling on-demand for the duration of the process.Spearheaded migration of on-prem infrastructure and applications to Azure with some of the following metrics:- 19+ applications migrated including artifacts and CI/CD pipelines using either Lift & Shift or Re-Platforming approach- Migrated 10 TB of storage between on-prem and multiple Azure tenants- Delivered savings of up to $100,000/month by right-sizing infrastructure and optimizing utilization- Setup completely automated infrastructure as code by developing 30+ Terraform modules and including approval checks for enhanced controlsLed the effort to educate and empower teams on cloud best practices for security, costing and optimization Show less Revamped the reporting system by breaking down the reports into reusable components which are maintained as part of an ever-expanding library. Following are some of the salient features of the system:- Same components can be reused in web pages, newsletters, etc.- Tabular components can be easily exported to Excel- Supporting Excel sheets were embedded in the report PDF to be delivered as a packageDeveloped a system to deliver newsletters based on ad-hoc/scheduled research publications. Following are some of the salient features of the system:- Built using cloud native technologies such as Azure Kubernetes Service, Cosmos DB- Pure microservice architecture with separation of concerns between each service- Asynchronous multi-stage processing of each newsletter Show less

  • Vice President - ESG Engineering

    Dec 2022 - Jun 2024

  • Senior Associate - ESG Engineering

    Dec 2020 - Dec 2022

  • Associate - ESG Engineering

    Feb 2019 - Dec 2020
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  BNP Paribas

  Jun 2024 - now

  Vice President - Technology (Client Engagement & Protection)