Valarmathy Pandurangan

Valarmathy Pandurangan

Principal Engineer | Technical Architect | Engineering Leader


About

Dynamic Lead Engineer with 15 years of experience delivering high-performance financial systems and enterprise distributed platforms. Adept at driving software engineering excellence, setting coding standards, and guiding engineering teams through complex delivery cycles. Strong history of collaborating with product owners, executive stakeholders, and traders to translate requirements into high-throughput microservices and scalable technical roadmaps. Specialise in high-level and low-level systems design, technical team leadership, and resolving critical platform stability, performance, and scalability issues. Proficient in developing REST APIs, worker modules, automation workflows, and monitoring systems while successfully modernizing legacy frameworks. Driven by operational excellence, Agile/Scrum execution, and end-to-end product delivery ownership to maximize business value and cost efficiency.

Skills
Java
Python
Spring Boot
Kafka
Redis
SQL
MongoDB
DeepHaven
Microservices
System Design
OpenShift
Podman
CI/CD
Agile
Docker
Kubernetes
Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Wells Fargo India Solutions

Apr 2018 to Present
  • Served as the core technical anchor across multiple enterprise financial platforms, guiding engineering teams through complex delivery cycles.
  • Optimized the real-time enterprise trade processing platform, executing trade netting, settlement integrations, and regulatory reporting using the FIX protocol.
  • Developed and deployed strategic regulatory document management platform, managing full lifecycle operations of WFS and WFA documents via UIs and APIs.
  • Architected a real-time stream processing integration using the DeepHaven engine to merge live trading metrics with massive historical data funnels.
  • Mentored junior and mid-level engineers on microservices best practices, improving overall team velocity and ensuring rigorous adherence to high-quality code standards.
  • Partnered directly with executive stakeholders, product owners, and traders to translate product requirements into concrete technical roadmaps.
  • Delivered a high-volume treasury netting solution yielding $2M+ in annual savings while ensuring absolute platform stability.
  • Automated ingestion workflows of WFS/WFA documents to eliminate thousands of manual operational hours and empower business users with data-driven trading strategies.

Software Engineer

Netcracker Technology

Jul 2016 to Apr 2018
  • Modernized legacy customer service operations by building a web-based CRM to replace text-based interfaces (TUI).
  • Integrated underlying ICOMs and Toms product architectures using Core Java and JSF to simplify frontend workflows and boost frontline efficiency.

Software Engineer

Kony IT Services Pvt Ltd

Jun 2014 to Jul 2016
  • Developed an enterprise cross-platform mobile field service application to streamline work order management and billing systems for field technicians.
  • Implemented data synchronization using Kony Sync to enable robust offline capabilities and automated backend updates upon reconnection.

Program Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Nov 2011 to Jun 2014
  • Engineered a highly responsive cross-device e-Application pilot that significantly boosted digital customer acquisition metrics.
Education

B.Tech (Information Technology)

Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering & Technology, Pondicherry · 8.58

Aug 2007 to May 2011