Vishal Shanbhag (@vshanbha)
20 karma
Senior Technical Architect @ Inbotiqa
Cologne, Germany - with Valid German Residence / Work Permit
Technology Consultant and Leader | Solution Architect | Startup Mentor | Blogger | Trekker
About
Experience Summary
- 20+ years with a Proven track record as Senior Technical Consultant, Software Architect, Lead Developer and Pre-Sales Consultant.
- Alumnus of 2019 Barclays Fintech Accelerator, Techstars London and Mentor at Founder Institute, London.
- Expertise in Fintech, Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance, Telecommunications, and E-Commerce.
- Facilitated successful pre-sales and software rollouts for major global banks and BPOs with outcomes such as
1. 43 % reduction in email volumes
2. Same-day close-out of trade support questions increased from 22% to 85%
- Tech Blogger with Focus on Open Source, Rapid Application Prototyping and LLMs for Enterprise use cases
- Writer for Leading Java Tutorial Site Baeldung.com
- 20+ years with a Proven track record as Senior Technical Consultant, Software Architect, Lead Developer and Pre-Sales Consultant.
- Alumnus of 2019 Barclays Fintech Accelerator, Techstars London and Mentor at Founder Institute, London.
- Expertise in Fintech, Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance, Telecommunications, and E-Commerce.
- Facilitated successful pre-sales and software rollouts for major global banks and BPOs with outcomes such as
1. 43 % reduction in email volumes
2. Same-day close-out of trade support questions increased from 22% to 85%
- Tech Blogger with Focus on Open Source, Rapid Application Prototyping and LLMs for Enterprise use cases
- Writer for Leading Java Tutorial Site Baeldung.com
Skills
Java ⋅ Expert
Technology Consulting ⋅ Advanced
Agile Software Development ⋅ Advanced
Business Process Management ⋅ Advanced
Project Management ⋅ Advanced
Large Language Models ⋅ Intermediate
Microsoft Azure ⋅ Intermediate
Amazon Web Services (AWS) ⋅ Advanced
Data Modeling ⋅ Advanced
Dev Ops ⋅ Intermediate
JEE ⋅ Advanced
Spring Framework ⋅ Advanced
Git ⋅ Advanced
Fintech ⋅ Intermediate
Python ⋅ Beginner
Javascript ⋅ Intermediate
Flutter ⋅ Beginner
Angular ⋅ Intermediate
Apache Solr ⋅ Advanced
GWT ⋅ Advanced
Streamlit ⋅ Beginner
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ⋅ Beginner
Education
Mumbai University (Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology) dypatil.edu
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics
Aug 1998 to Jun 2002
Experience
Senior Technical Architect
Inbotiqa inbotiqa.com
May 2011 to Present ⋅ Remote, Hürth, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Joined Inbotiqa Ltd a UK-based technology start-up in mid-2011. Lead the complete Technology Architecture, Pre-Sales, Product and Technology Strategy, Hiring, Development and Maintenance, Infrastructure planning and support. Built Enterprise-grade, Intelligent Email productivity software from the ground up that led to.
- Improved turn around times compliance for cases from 40% and 60% to over 95%
- Increased Same-day close-out of trade support questions increased from 22% to 85% and complaints were reduced to Zero
- Reduced unnecessary email volumes by 43%
Team Leader - AVP
Nomura and Lehman Brothers nomura.com
Nov 2006 to Mar 2011 ⋅ Mumbai, Maharasthra, India
Part of Nomura's Corporate Portal development and process automation teams. Managed infrastructure and development for tools like Tibco iProcess, Business Works, and Business Objects. Led the BPM Center of Excellence in Mumbai before Nomura's acquisition of Lehman Brothers' India entity in October 2008.
Technical Specialist
Infosys Technologies Ltd infosys.com
Oct 2002 to Nov 2006 ⋅ Bangalore and Pune in India and multiple assignments in the USA
Member of the Banking and Capital Markets STAR group, last serving as Technical Specialist. Provided expert consulting and architectural design within the division.
Languages
English ⋅ Native
Hindi ⋅ Native
Marathi ⋅ Native
German ⋅ A2
Konkani ⋅ Native
Interests
Trekking
Blogging
Video Games
Projects
RAGPoC
A Proof of Concept / Quick Start for Retrieval Augmented Generation using Langchain, Python, FAISS and Streamlit.
Python
baeldung-tutorials
Repository to hold any code relevant to new articles for Baeldung
CSSShellXSLTJavaScriptPythonJavaHTMLDockerfile
Volunteer
ReDI School of Digital Integration redi-school.org
Teacher
Sep 2023 to Dec 2023 ⋅ Remote, Hürth, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Contributed to the ReDI School of Digital Integration in the HTML and CSS course as a teacher and mentor
Publications
Results election 2024 — India levelup.gitconnected.com
Level Up Coding
Jun 24, 2024
I wrote an app to view the Results of the Indian Parliamentary Elections 2024. This app was written from scratch within 2 weeks of the declaration of the Election Results and using publicly available data. It is a proof of concept using AI and Analytics together. The libraries involved are Streamlit, Plotly, Langchain and Selenium. The linked article is a launch article about the application.
How to secure Ollama server ? medium.com
Medium
Jun 2024
This article explores ways to secure Ollama server even though they don’t provide something out of the box yet.