Hello, I am
Salini Devi R
Director of Software Engineering
FinTech Platform Architect · AI-Driven Engineering Adoption · Multi-Agent AI Systems · FIX/SWIFT
About
Architects and evolves end-to-end FinTech platforms, driving Technology Strategy through Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture (.NET Core/Akka.NET), Cloud-native AWS patterns, and DevSecOps practices to deliver high-performance, scalable, resilient, and compliant FIX/SWIFT financial systems.
Currently leading AI-driven engineering adoption at InvestCloud. Beyond the day job, actively building AI systems hands-on: shipped a multi-agent RAG platform at an internal hackathon, a WhatsApp-first inventory intelligence prototype on Amazon Bedrock at the AI for Bharat Hackathon (AWS), and an LLM-powered GitHub code review assistant as an independent project.
18+ years in product engineering with 16+ years building, scaling, and evolving the same FinTech platform across three company transitions (Oakdene > Babel Systems > InvestCloud), with full lifecycle ownership of trading, settlement (CREST), payments (SWIFT/FIX), accounting, tax, and regulatory workflows.
Experience
Director of Software Engineering
InvestCloud Inc. · Bangalore, India
- ▸Leading AI-driven engineering adoption — coaching engineers on Claude Code, Cursor, Glean AI, and GitHub Copilot
- ▸Built LUCID at the internal hackathon — a multi-agent RAG-powered operations intelligence platform with 5 AI agents
- ▸Governing architecture standards, reviews, and best practices
- ▸Driving DevSecOps with Snyk and CI/CD gates — cut release time by 60%, defects by 50%
- ▸Built custom Glean AI agents for BA/QA knowledge transfer
- ▸Created a Jira-integrated release note generator agent
- ▸Partnered with delivery teams on ISO 20022 SWIFT migration
- ▸Optimised platform to support 800 concurrent users and 100K+ clients
- ▸Driving AI usage efficiency measurement across engineering
Technical Architect
InvestCloud Inc. · Bangalore, India
- ▸Delivered 90% performance improvement via Akka.NET actor model, in-memory caching, and optimised SQL
- ▸Implemented FIX engine and SWIFT parsers ensuring 100% protocol adherence
- ▸Redesigned Tax Lot Accounting for UK/US, reducing computation errors by 40%
- ▸Built configurable Interest Calculation Engine with precision and auditability
- ▸Conducted architecture/code reviews, improving team efficiency by 30%
- ▸Delivered a real-time scheduling engine improving throughput predictability
Associate Technical Architect
Babel Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd. · Bangalore, India
- ▸Integrated IRESS and QFI trading platforms, improving execution accuracy and speed
- ▸Built reusable logging and caching components, increasing delivery speed
- ▸Created FIX protocol test harnesses, accelerating QA by 25%
Associate Technical Consultant
Oakdene India Software Services Pvt. Ltd. · Bangalore, India
- ▸Delivered a configurable transaction framework, cutting time-to-market
- ▸Integrated HMRC UK tax systems ensuring compliance and data integrity
- ▸Designed foundational components for the long-lived FinTech platform
Software Consultant
Hewlett Packard · Bangalore, India
- ▸Delivered enterprise application enhancements and customizations
- ▸Translated business requirements into scalable technical designs
Key Achievements
FinTech Platform Creation & Evolution
Built the core FinTech platform from the ground up and evolved it across three company transitions — trading, settlement, payments, tax, and regulatory workflows
AI-Driven Engineering Transformation
Led adoption of Claude Code and Glean AI at InvestCloud; independently shipped multi-agent RAG systems and an Amazon Bedrock hackathon prototype
Platform Modernization & DevSecOps
Instituted CI/CD and DevSecOps (Snyk) — deployment time reduced by 60%, defects reduced by 50%
High-Performance Event Processing
Applied Akka.NET Actor Model, Redis caching, and optimised SQL to achieve up to 90% performance improvement
Global Leadership & Engineering Maturity
Scaled global teams (20+); formalised architecture reviews; onboarding time reduced by 60%
AI Projects
LUCID
InvestCloud Internal Hackathon | 2026
AI-Powered Financial Operations Intelligence
Multi-agent AI system with RAG and knowledge graph integration to automate financial operations triage across SWIFT messaging, queue monitoring, and reconciliation workflows. Features 5 specialised agents, ChromaDB vector search with SentenceTransformer embeddings, and a NetworkX knowledge graph with 70+ keyword patterns.
Retail AI Intelligence
AI for Bharat Hackathon (AWS) | Independent | 2026
WhatsApp-First Inventory Platform
WhatsApp-first inventory intelligence platform for India's 12 million small retailers. Built on Amazon Bedrock (Claude 3 Haiku) — achieved 94% AI accuracy, under 300ms response time, INR 220/store/month unit economics.
LLM Code Review Assistant
Independent Project | 2025
AI-Driven Code Quality
AI/LLM-driven Code Review Assistant integrated with GitHub, improving review consistency, learning velocity, and engineering quality. Demonstrates hands-on LLM integration capability beyond enterprise platform work.
Skills
Languages & Frameworks
AI/ML & LLM
Cloud & Infrastructure
AI Developer Tools
Protocols & Standards
Practices
Education
Master of Computer Applications (MCA)
Annamalai University
2004 – 2007
Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)
Annai Therasa College
2001 – 2004
Certifications
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