About

Venkat Kamath is a Managing Director and Head of Transaction Banking Engineering in Bengaluru at Goldman Sachs. With over 18 years of experience in engineering projects, he is an engineer at heart and passionate about understanding new problems and solving them using effective tools and technologies. Venkat collaborates with people to deliver value to clients incrementally at speed and learn something new every day along the journey. Venkat has extensive experience in setting up high performing engineering teams from scratch to deliver projects at scale and speed leveraging global distributed teams and agile methodology. He has worked on various domains such as Cash Management, Core Banking, Market Risk, Credit Risk, Country Risk, Equities, and Mortgage. Venkat has experience in programming in Python, Java, and designing/architecting reusable components in a distributed system using Microservices architecture based on well-proven architectural and design patterns in both public cloud using AWS and hybrid/on-prem ecosystem. At Goldman Sachs, Venkat leads the platform and cloud engineering team based in Bengaluru. He worked as lead architect for the modernization of Global Liquidity and Account Services leveraging micro-services architecture and virtual accounts. During his tenure in risk technology, Venkat was responsible for building time series market data infra and reengineering of country risk and credit risk platform. Venkat's specialties include AWS, Cloud, Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, API gateway, Kafka, Terraform, Ansible, Secure SDLC, Core Java, Multithreading, High-Performance Computing, Event-Driven Architecture, Pentaho ETL, jBPM Workflow, Testing Automation, Resiliency strategies, CI/CD, Continuous Delivery, Infrastructure as Code(IaC), Sonar, Scrum, Gitlab, business knowledge of Treasury, Cash Management, Liquidity, Virtual Account Management, Core Banking, Credit Risk, Country Risk, Market Risk. With over 20.70 years of relevant experience, Venkat has worked for Goldman Sachs as Tech Fellow and Head of Transaction Banking Engineering in Bengaluru and Vice President. Venkat's tech stack includes AWS, infra, Microservices, Java, ECS, Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD, test, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, ETL, Senior Software Engineer, and Python.