Rajnish Pandey

Domain: Crypto | Risk | KYC | Compliance Led architecture and development of high-throughput microservices powering Risk and KYC platforms for global users. Designed and implemented end-to-end billing and metering services for C2C transactions, supporting internal and external clients at scale. Drove architecture decisions and prototype development, enabling scalable and resilient system design. Established Engineering Best Practices framework across the business unit, improving code quality and deployment efficiency. Mentored engineers and led hiring initiatives, introducing Competency-Based Interviewing (CBI) to improve talent quality. AI & Automation Initiatives Built LLM-powered KYC/POA validation system delivering automated Pass/Fail decisions with explainability, significantly reducing manual review effort and improving auditability. Developed AI + OCR-based data extraction pipelines to auto-populate onboarding data (CPF, PAN, AU IDs), improving user experience and increasing KYC success rates. Implemented AI-driven EDD validation workflows for document authenticity, metadata extraction, and compliance checks, strengthening fraud detection and reducing false positives.

Domain: Investment Banking | Securities Lending | Risk Engineered large-scale data processing pipelines using Scala, Apache Spark, and distributed storage systems (HDFS, Kudu, HBase). Optimized batch processing workflows for high-volume financial datasets, improving performance and reliability. Developed high-performance REST APIs enabling seamless integration with upstream/downstream systems. Led refactoring and modernization initiatives to improve maintainability and scalability of legacy systems. Mentored teams and trained engineers on Test-Driven Development (TDD) and engineering best practices.

Domain: Investment Banking | Credit Risk Collaborated with business stakeholders to design and enhance credit risk reporting platforms. Reduced project delivery timelines by ~20% through process optimization and effective coordination. Led application and database migration initiatives, improving system scalability and performance.

Designed and implemented core components for commodity trading and P&L systems.

Contributed to development of listed derivatives trading systems.

Developed enterprise applications in legal and document management domain.