Seadon Francis Pinto, Vice President Of Business Technology

Seadon Francis Pinto

Vice President Of Business Technology

First Abu Dhabi Bank - Other Locations

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Information Sciences
Experience
12 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 8 Months

Vice President Of Business Technology at First Abu Dhabi Bank - Other Locations
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since July 2022


I lead the global engineering teams that oversee an entire range of 1100+ banking applications, which includes
consumer and core banking software.

I effectively manage IT audit & risk management ensuring the highest level of security across all banking applications.


I formulate strategies and processes that optimize resources and budgets, aiming to achieve the best possible
outcomes.

Spearheaded Continuous Service Improvements (CSI) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) initiatives. while leading
change management, incident management & problem management.

Driving digital transformation and automation using AI and Blockchain, Managing vendor relationships and performance

Chief Technology Officer at Verofax Limited
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since May 2021

Verofax is a smart serialization and Traceability SaaS service that allows
- Trace goods, Fend off counterfeit activities, and improve manufacturers' productivity.
- Brands can extend their reach directly to end-consumers, thereby increasing consumer intimacy with direct engagement, and leveraging the boom in NFTs and metaverse experiences

Verofax is a gold partner for Microsoft and uses its patented technology build on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Augmented reality.
Verofax has its global solution deployed on major cloud partners like AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. ​

CTO, Head of Technology at Neuro Flash
  • Germany - Hamburg
  • May 2018 to April 2021

I have contributed actively to the formation of the core tech team and building the next big thing in automation and AI for market research and influencer marketing. I lead tech teams consisting of engineers and data scientists. I am responsible for all technical decisions and In-house product development. I also work closely with the tech teams in reviewing code, architecting solutions, designing database schemas, and inspiring them to build on cutting-edge technologies.

Products: flashinsightai.neuro-flash.com (FLASHinsight AI), Scrape Engine & Tools and Backoffice
Introduced automation, which slowly transformed the company form agency model to SAAS for high scalability
Initiated and lead scrape engine and entity DB developments for content acquisition and aggregations
Introduced microservice architecture, An openness to share AI with developer communities and platform creators
Successfully migrated all resources to the cloud while letting the company save a lot on the operating cost.
Responsible for hiring and introducing tech policies and processes
Organizing weekly tech meetups, university paper studies and knowledge sharing among technical groups
Strategically planning and managing tech budgets, including resource and operational costs

Lead Database Engineer at Microsoft Corporation
  • India - Bengaluru
  • February 2015 to May 2018

I was one of the only 2 software engineers for Microsoft for Startups global division reporting to the global director of operations. We were responsible for building the global startup database consisting of 800, 000+ startup data. We were also responsible for deploying intelligent reports across leadership teams in the organization. We also scored startup data globally, across all verticals with the custom build rule engine.

Products: nstar.cloudapp.net (NorthStar)
Collection and storage of large datasets across multiple sources
Data mining and merging data frames to produce a single source information
Built a robust scoring engine that housed many businesses rules
Developed efficient queueing system to fetch, update and score startup records
Mentoring Interns and delegating tasks that could be effectively done by interns
Managed AZURE cloud deployments and upgrades from legacy systems, both on cloud and application level
Implemented GDPR compliant features as per Microsoft security policies
Product and API documentation and communicating the integration across remote front end team
Introduced docker container and configured continuous integration for deployments

Software Engineer at AVR Edge Networks Pvt. Ltd.
  • India - Bengaluru
  • September 2011 to February 2015

worked as a full-stack software developer building features and RESTful web services for an intelligent hiring platform. I also had opportunities to interact with clients in understanding their software requirements in the early days of my career. Being one of the founding employees and trustworthy I deployed at the company’s flagship customer (Wipro) office for the development and maintenance of software products.

Products: hirealchemy.com (HIREAlchemy)
Core development of Jscore an intelligent hiring platform and CoRM a competence and risk management system.
Client interaction and breaking down requirements into software features and tasks and planning its implementation
I contributed largely towards developing a custom rules-based engine to suit businesses requirements on SAAS product
Generously contributed to the education and skill development prototype platform, Fundula which is the combination of a job board and an LMS (Learning Management System) having scorm wrapped courses loaded onto it.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Information Sciences
  • at Visvesvaraya Technological University
  • May 2011

- Presented paper on "Nano Sensors" at GMIT, Davangere. - Presented paper on "Artificial Neural Networks" at SCEM, Mangalore. - Participated in Dreamspark yatra 2011 conducted my Microsoft at KVG, Sullia. * Served as the Vice President & Student Head of TOXICS (Association of Information Science and Computer Science) for the year 2010-2011 and conducted and organized many activities successfully. * Organised and coordinated 2day National Level Technical Feat (NGIT 2011) successfully.

Specialties & Skills

MongoDB
Laravel
HTML + CSS
MongoDB
Laravel
Javascript
Asp.net
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
RESTful Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Message Queue
PHPUnit
Elasticsearch
Payment Gateway
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Software Deployment
Artificial Intelligence
Blockchain

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Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Kannada
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Intelligent Agents (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2012
Valid Until:
January 9999

Hobbies

  • Research and Development in Science & Archeological
  • Swimming
  • Photography