Harshal Mandalkar - PMP®, CSM®, CSPO®

Experience

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  American Express

  Sept 2005 - Dec 2021

  > Provide SME support for various American Express accounts-payable projects covering Change Management, Test Management, Application security, and Information security.> Responsible for End-To-End test Management for a critical payment application migration from Mainframe to In-Memory-Computing> Provide technical guidance, review designs and code, and ensure engineering best practices are followed.> Specialized in Risk Management, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery> Responsible for Agile SLDC best practices are followed in a manner to enhance the teams' abilities to accurately estimate, manage, and deliver stories implement and enforce data security and compliance measures> Collaborate with product managers or stakeholders to define goals, scope, timelines, and resources.> Own the resource management and Executive reporting of delivemitigation strategies for mission-critical programs Show less > Complete ownership of the production environment for the Merchant Payment Platform> Lead the response to critical technical issues, outages, or emergencies, ensuring rapid resolution and minimizing downtime.> Create Robust Support Strategy, Continuous Service Improvement, Operational Assurance> Impact Prevention, Early Engagement, and Drive NFR for Operational effectiveness> Manage and Lead Multi Applications, Multiple technology, multi-SLA Enhancement and Maintenance projects for critical Financial Applications(GMS) within American Express> Enforce Incident, Problem, Change and Knowledge management processes as per standard guidelinesRegular status meetings (Monthly/Quarterly/Yearly) with Directors Show less > Worked starting from Analyst Programmer to Sr Developer/lead for various applications in Mainframe technology for American Express account> Understanding Client requirements, and Participating in requirement-gathering meetings with clients.> Code and develop applications using Cobol, JCL, and DB2> Developed Card Member hierarchy process using Cobol, JCL, DB2 and IMS> Developed the reporting process which creates the reports and statements for corporate spending> Extensively used DB2 and IMS DB queries for data verification at the backend Show less

  • Senior Consultant / Engineering Manager

    Jun 2018 - Dec 2021

  • Sr Consultant / Service Operations Manager

    Sept 2015 - Jun 2018

  • Senior Software Development Engineer

    Sept 2005 - Sept 2015
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  Coinbase

  Dec 2021 - now

  Blockchain Security Engineer

  > Ensures the security of blockchain assets and the Web3 ecosystem> Responsible for Blockchain smart contract security audit> Perform security audit for ERC20, ERC721, Blockchain, DeFi etc> Detect and prevent security breaches/Vulnerabilities> Responsible for Sprint Planning for the security engineering team and tracking related to security tasks> Vulnerability tracking and reporting, metrics generation Jira's automation and vulnerability dashboard on Jira/Looker> Implement industrial standards regarding Cybersecurity> Change Management and Risk assessment> Managing the vendor resources, Hiring/firing contractor> Coach the team on Scrum practices> Monitor and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) to track the team's progress and identify areas for improvement. Show less