Rukesh is a Technology Evangelist with extensive global experience in Australia, Brighton, Phoenix, Toronto, and India. Engineer at heart he loves building and fixing things. His 29-year career spans Westpac Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, Price Waterhouse, Woolworths, and a decade at American Express Australia where, as Director of Technical Architecture, he managed a consumer card portfolio of 365 applications across 16 countries.
In 2015, Rukesh was selected by Jio’s leadership as the transformative CTO for their Financial Business in Mumbai. He was instrumental in launching the core payment capabilities, Jio Payment Bank, JioMart, and a Super App framework for services such as Bill Payment, JioKiosk, JioService, Hotel, Flight, and Bus booking. The Payment Gateway he developed provides the backbone for monthly recharges for Jio’s 425 million customers. Subsequently, at Edelweiss, he built an industry-first award-winning Lending Platform on a low-code platform. At Financial Systems and Software (FSS), he led the redesign of their core switching, acquiring, issuing, and UPI product stack.
Rukesh has a strong business acumen for applying architecture design to create fit-for-purpose, scalable, cloud-native, API-Ready solutions that are self-healing, maintainable, and reliable.
He believes that culture is more important than strategy and that attaining agility in everything we do is critical in today’s ever-changing unpredictable world.
- Company:RNR Software
- Short Bio:Technology Consultant