Chris Rahnejat

Projects included: * Technology strategy advisor for a UK challenger bank, performing solution design, business case development, and technology/vendor selections to determine strategic future state, book of work and delivery plans for core banking and payments. * Technical design authority / architect for post-merger integration of two challenger banks with separate operations and technology solutions and contrasting architecture and engineering approaches. * Lead architect for Banking and Payments for a UK challenger bank's implementation of a new core solution for current accounts, domestic payments, debit cards, core ledger, payments warehousing, fincrime/fraud prevention and compliance with FSCS, CASS, PSD2 and other associated regulatory and monitoring requirements. Event sourcing/CQRS, Kube, Docker, Java, Kafka, Micronaut, EFK, GitOps. * Delivery QA / architecture SME panel for the on-shore to near-shore migration planning of a UK remittance provider's technology organisation and estate. * Design authority and enablement/prototyping lead for a strategic transformation of a large South American bank's retail brand to adopt a spotify-inspired agile delivery model, devOps, and increased use of cloud and managed services. Java, Spring Boot, Kube, Docker, Istio, RabbitMQ, AWS EC2 & RDS, Splunk.

Projects included: * Design authority lead and principal architect for the design, build, launch and scale of Next Bank (subsidiary of Bradesco) to over 2M new retail customers. Delivered scope included checking accounts, savings accounts, credit and debit cards, domestic payments, fund investments, travel insurance, goals/pots, crowdfunding and eCommerce integrations. Java, Spring Boot, JBoss, Layer7, IBM-MQ, IBM DataPower, Oracle 12c. * Delivery QA/internal audit for two banking platform integration programmes in North America, responsible for review and remediation of solution architecture and programme delivery model / SDLC.

Financial services consulting in banking, wealth management, capital markets and insurance. Projects included: * Strategy advisor for creation of an investment case for a new precious metals commodity exchange in London - accountable for pricing and financial models, operating model design and collaborating to create the investment pitch deck and supporting materials - lead to successful business case for LMEprecious. * Solution architect and technical product manager for creation of a savings and investments app, inclusive of integrations to market makers, design and build of a new cloud platform, trade lifecycle management engine, and cryptographically secure ledger built around a finite state machine, and new mobile and web interfaces for both customers and operations. Python, C, AWS EC2, Cassandra, Postgres, REST.

Financial services consulting in banking, wealth management, capital markets and insurance. Projects included: * Algorithm development for a new banking platform, helping to define both the functionality and developing a prototype financial forecasting and scenario modelling engine in a Python/Django framework. * Advanced analytics SME, data modelling and architecture design for a financial big data project. VerticaDB, Postgres, C, Python, Flask, OData/Data Virtualisation.

Financial services consulting in banking, wealth management, capital markets and insurance. Projects included: * Product vision and customer experience research for a large UK retail bank; using primary and secondary market research, customer journeys and outcomes to deliver a new vision for the bank's in-branch and digital banking offerings.

Online gaming services provider with over 1000 registered customers financed solely by advertising revenues. Personal responsibilities included business model development, service strategy, marketing, software development, and oversight of the administrative team. C# / .NET, SVN, HTML, JavaScript.

Final year project: Shock waves in ionised plasma (MAGPIE)

Thesis title: STM studies of highly-doped graphitic superconductors