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Girish Watwani

Girish Watwani

Abu Dhabi

Summary

Dynamic Full Stack Engineering Leader with 12+ years of expertise architecting scalable, secure, high-performance web and banking applications. Specialized in Angular, Node.js, Microservices, AI-driven automation, and DevOps on Kubernetes & OpenShift. Passionate about transforming digital customer experiences, driving innovation in Wealth & Retail Banking platforms, and mentoring teams to deliver top-tier results. Seeking to leverage proven success in optimizing performance, reducing time-to-market, and integrating cutting-edge AI to elevate business outcomes.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Full Stack Developer / Solution Architect

D4Insight Tech & Emirates NBD
05.2024 - Current
  • Architected end-to-end Rights Issue investment flows, designing scalable APIs and intuitive UI workflows, ensuring seamless customer participation in corporate actions.
  • Engineered and launched the Dual Currency Investment (DCI) product, integrating complex FX payout logic with real-time market data, enhancing the bank’s structured investment offerings.
  • Elevated platform responsiveness by deploying real-time price alerts, increasing user retention by 15%.
  • Reduced regression testing cycle by 30% by implementing Playwright test automation, significantly accelerating release cycles.
  • Solved multi-platform integration challenges across web, iOS, and Android, improving digital engagement.
  • Supervised work of programmers, designers and technicians, assigned tasks and monitored performance against targets.

Lead Full Stack Developer / Solution Architect

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
04.2023 - 05.2024
  • Led design & build of Wealth Management Advisor Portal (Node.js, Angular, GraphQL), enhancing advisor efficiency and cutting onboarding time by 25%.
  • Optimized microservices for heavy queries, improving response times by 40%.
  • Integrated GraphQL to streamline data fetch, vastly improving UI speed.
  • Managed development milestones from initial steps through final delivery.

Application Development Associate Manager

Accenture
05.2022 - 04.2023
  • Revamped TD Bank's retail banking applications to tackle accessibility compliance challenges, achieving design consistency.
  • Engineered reusable Angular components to address development inefficiencies, boosting productivity by 20%.
  • Streamlined development cycles by addressing slow processes, implementing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and UrbanCode, resulting in faster releases.
  • Optimized existing TypeScript codebase, resulting in a reduction in loading times and improved application performance.

Assistant Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services
10.2019 - 03.2022
  • Overcame scalability challenges by migrating almost 10+ apps to OpenShift, improving performance.
  • Engineered interactive advisor dashboards with Angular and Redux to enhance data accessibility, boosting user engagement.
  • Enhanced app performance by addressing API inefficiencies, resulting in boost in response speed.

Technical Developer

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
01.2015 - 09.2019
  • Engineered dynamic forms with Angular Reactive Forms to resolve complex logic challenges, enhancing functionality.
  • Transformed enterprise web applications by leading a UI/UX revamp, enhancing user satisfaction.
  • Engineered robust ASP.NET MVC applications to address performance challenges, improving efficiency.

Developer

Infosys
03.2012 - 12.2014
  • Engineered retail food distribution websites for a major U.S. retailer, overcoming performance issues, enhancing user engagement.
  • Enhanced release efficiency by automating testing and deployment, overcoming delays, which reduced cycle time.

Education

Bachelor - Computer Science

WIEECT, Mumbai University
Mumbai

Masters in AI - Artificial Intelligence (In Progress)

University of Texas
Austin, USA

Skills

  • Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, Redux, Responsive UI/UX, React, NextJS
  • Backend: NodeJS, GraphQL, Python, ASPNET MVC, Python, NestJS
  • Cloud & DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Azure, Jenkins, CI/CD, Serverless, AWS
  • Databases: MongoDB, MySQL, Pinecone
  • AI & Automation: GPT APIs, Playwright, n8n, LangChain, LangGraph, PyTorch
  • Agile Leadership: Mentoring, Code Reviews, Cross-team Collaboration

Key Projects

  • AI Portfolio Strategy Engine: Node.js, LangChain, GPT & vector DB solution for extracting strategies from books, dynamically generating investment rules, and shortlisting stocks with advanced TA & backtesting.
  • Automated Wealth Insights & Portfolio Emails: Pipeline generating customer portfolio summaries, movers, charts & relevant news, deployed on Firebase Studio.
  • Real Estate Green Home Certification App: AI-driven app analyzing property docs/images to issue green certifications & PDFs, with admin dashboard & investor-ready pitch.
  • AI Test Case Generator & MCP Bot: Node.js + LangChain agent that reads feature specs, designs test cases, and converses using Model Context Protocol.
  • PCF to OpenShift Migration: Seamless migration of core banking workloads to OpenShift with zero downtime.
  • Accessibility Engineering: JAWS-compliant Angular UIs meeting WCAG standards for regulated banking.
  • AI Portfolio Tools: GPT-driven market insights using Pinecone & Microsoft SERP APIs.
  • Automated Testing: Playwright suite cutting manual QA by 50%.

Timeline

Full Stack Developer / Solution Architect

D4Insight Tech & Emirates NBD
05.2024 - Current

Lead Full Stack Developer / Solution Architect

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
04.2023 - 05.2024

Application Development Associate Manager

Accenture
05.2022 - 04.2023

Assistant Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services
10.2019 - 03.2022

Technical Developer

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
01.2015 - 09.2019

Developer

Infosys
03.2012 - 12.2014

Bachelor - Computer Science

WIEECT, Mumbai University

Masters in AI - Artificial Intelligence (In Progress)

University of Texas
Girish Watwani