Sambit Dikshit

Head of Technology Core Banking & Wealth Management @ Kotak Mahindra Bank

About

I have 25 years of experience with a proven track record of building large scale platform and products in the space of generative ai, data management governance & analytics, api & microservices, cloud & sdlc, distributed computing, portals & content management, mobile applications for domains like finance, mobility, retail, manufacturing and technology media sectors. Strong entrepreneurial and management skills to build high performance teams from ground up, leading and scaling large teams of engineering, product management spread across different geographies. I've played multiple leadership roles through out my career. Keeping a balance between highly technical and managerial roles, I never want to stay far from technology, but also very much enjoy leading large teams, helping and solving problems for different engineering and business functions. I'm an engineer by education & profession, passionate about technologies. I really get excited to see a well-thought-out product or a specification that moves from concept to a reality. i'm mostly a people's person and i thrive to excel in challenging circumstance. I believe in nothing comes easy in life, there is no shortcut to your goal and there is a way to every problem. I strongly believe that all persons can exceed their potential if they are pushed under the right environment and right leadership to bring out their strength. Specialities - Generative AI, AI Governance, Data & Analytics, Data Governance, BigData, Enterprise Architecture, Micro Services, SOA, Distributed Computing, High Scalability, Engineering Strategy & Leadership.

Country

India

City

Karnataka

Industry

Financial Services

Skill

Mobility Platforms, Private Banking, Order Management, Knowledge Graph-Based Search, Knowledge Graph-Based Natural Language Processing, Payment Systems, Enterprise Search, Semantic Search, Data Management, Team Mentoring, Stakeholder Management, Team Building, Team Management, Leadership, People Management, Spring Framework, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Memcached

Experience

Head of Technology Core Banking & Wealth Management

Kotak Mahindra Bank

2024-6 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Transforming technology platforms for core banking and wealth management at Kotak.

Tech Fellow

Goldman Sachs

2017-11 - 2024-7 · 6 yrs 9 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Managing Director

Goldman Sachs

2021-11 - 2024-5 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built a highly scalable GenAI platform and products to enable multiple business use cases to improve business value proposition, developer and operational efficiency leveraging well goverened platform primitives. Built a massively scalable data platform "Quantum" catering to complete data life cycle management from data ingestion, orchestration, compute, distribution, quality, discovery & governance. Build an account onboarding platform to improve customer onboarding for asset and wealth management. Built an API platform to digitise the expedite digitisation journey for asset and wealth management. Built a data protection platform to ensure data is safe for European jurisdiction.

Architect(Sr Director), Data and core platform

Ola

2016-4 - 2019-8 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Bangaon Area, India

Architecting the next generation platform for real time prediction, recommendation, fraud detection, marketing insights using complex event processing and analytics on data.

Vice President, Head of core infra and data platform IMD Bangalore

Goldman Sachs

2014-4 - 2016-3 · 2 yrs

Bengaluru Area, India

Working as head of core infra and data platform engineering at Goldman Sachs’s Investment Management Division Bengaluru focusing on building a data platform (Quantum) to source, normalize, compute, analyze & deliver all types data entities across investment management asset classes and private wealth management. This is a strategic data platform upliftment to scale out large-scale data processing using big data technology stack both in batch as well as realtime. I’m responsible for over all design, implementation and delivery of this initiative from Bengaluru.

Sr Architect, @Platform

@WalmartLabs

2011-7 - 2014-3 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Bengaluru Area, India

i was responsible to build, own and adoption of micro services infrastructure soa platform and data as a service platform under WalmartLabs platform engineering.