Himanshi Srivastava

Vice President, Data Science Platform at Barclays/ Technical leader | Backend Engineer | Cloud | AWS | Oracle | Java

London, England, United Kingdom

About

Engineering Leader with 14+ years of experience designing and scaling cloud native platforms and distributed systems. Currently leading the quants developer platform at Barclays, driving architecture and strategy for secure & scalable AWS solutions. Proven record mentoring engineering teams, establishing IaC and CI/CD best practices, and delivering resilient, cost-conscious solutions.

Experience

  • Vice President, Platform engineering at Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank
    Feb 2023 - Jun 2026 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    Spearheaded the technical strategy for an AI-enabled multi-tenant internal developer platform, focusing on scalability and integration with other platforms within the bank. My role involved designing a secure and cost-effective cloud infrastructure while automating deployments across over 200 AWS accounts. I also inspired the engineering team to adopt best practices in cloud platform development.

  • Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS) at AND Digital
    Nov 2021 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Designed an event driven architecture for migrating on-premise applications to AWS cloud for a retail brand. Built and deployed Infrastructure as code (Terraform) on AWS via Atlantis/Jenkins. Implemented intercommunication of multiple microservices via REST APIs. Mentor engineering teams and drive best practices in software development.

  • Principal Data Engineer at Oracle
    Jan 2021 - Jul 2021 · 7 mos

    Lead the data pipelines built to analyze consumer attention on YouTube and derive metrics for the AdTech world. Design and development of the data pipeline.

  • Technical Lead at Lifion by ADP
    Oct 2018 - Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Provided technical leadership in driving overall release management of applications on next gen HCM platform. Collaborated with Product Owners and stakeholders to convert business needs into technical designs. Designed and built RESTful APIs for managing dependencies and releases of applications. Conducted code reviews and technical story acceptance. Mentor engineering teams and drive best practices with focus on Test driven development(TDD).

  • Full Stack Engineer at JDA Software
    Apr 2011 - Oct 2018 · 7 yrs 7 mos

    Developed technical designs and worked as Full stack developer for Pricing and revenue management products. Implemented code changes for customer enhancements and unit testing. Developed APIs for UI consumption. Fixed bugs reported in-house and by customers. Participated actively in deployment and delivery of products.