Mohit Kumar Agarwal
Director, Software Engineering
Hyderabad
Summary
Dynamic leader in software engineering with a proven track record at S&P Global of 14+ years, adept in system design and people management. Spearheaded innovative cloud-native solutions, modern web platform development, significantly enhancing data processing efficiency and achieving multi-million dollar cost savings. Excelled in strategic planning and infrastructure operations, driving project success and team excellence.
Skilled in C#, SQL Server, Java, Spark, Databricks, Kaka, ELK stack, Containerization with EKS, ECS, NOSQL with Cassandra and Redis.
Cloud Technologies: AWS Certified Architect. GCP PubSub, GCP Big query
Exposure to Python, React, Terraform
Experience building RAG based AI engineering workflows.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Director of Software Engineering
S&P Global Ratings
01.2025 - Current
- Currently spearheading the transformation of internal workflows for Ratings Commercial & Finance teams by building a new web platform to improve business efficiencies, improve customer onboarding experience and improve billing and revenue reporting.
- Leading 40+ high performance global professionals across Europe, India and US.
- Partner with commercial and product teams to prioritize various transformation initiatives.
- Successfully retired legacy content management platform for managing regulated content on Ratings marketing website.
- Built a modern web platform from scratch in a regulated environment by incorporating various persona based capabilities.
Director, Software Engineering
S&P Global Market Intelligence
08.2022 - 12.2024
- 8+ years experience leading upto 4 development teams. Experience hiring and building teams from scratch.
- Experience with AWS cloud optimization and budgeting.
- Experience as Technical Product owner for common data ingestion frameworks used within Market Intelligence.
- Responsible for working with various business stakeholders and setting clear priorities for the development teams and driving execution of fast paced projects in a timely and lean manner.
- Significant experience driving projects in the areas of distributed systems, event driven architecture, microservices.
- Collaborated as a architect on the cloud native ecosystem for a strategic initiative Company Nexus which allows Market Intelligence division to create unified master/view of its reference data and linking capabilities to be leveraged across its products.
- Designed a event driven pipeline using Kafka and Databricks to publish CIQ Ownership data into our distribution channel N6. This enabled our h-IHS Orion products to replace Factset as source for the same and enabled multi-million dollars in cost savings.
- Re-architected the back end API and data model using ELK stack and containerized microservices to improve News page load performance on CIQ Pro Platform from 4s to 1s and also improved ingestion SLA's from 10 mins to < 1min
- Built a cloud hosted self service platform using AWS and Terraform/Ansible to enable internal technology teams to leverage Apache Nifi (low code platform) for building ETL applications.
- Built a cloud native dynamic projections engine platform using Kafka and ELK stack that enables team to build configuration driven ETL pipelines in a event driven manner
Associate Director of Software Engineering
S&P Global Market Intelligence
03.2019 - 08.2022
- As a architect and tech lead of major datacenter exit, created reusable IAC templates for teams to be self sufficient and enabled DevOps culture.
- As architect for certain domains on CIQ Pro Platform, built and architected major features like Transcript Sentiment scores, Dow Jones News, Codex integration
- Developed the data fabric using Kafka and container technologies that enabled creating faster data pipelines during the SNL integration and was used extensively by various divisions within S&P.
- Built a power automate flow for automated tracking of support requests sent over email enabling better transparency of time spent by the team.
Senior Lead Software Developer
S&P Global Market Intelligence
03.2016 - 03.2019
- Built a generic pipeline using Airflow, Hive and Spark to ingest market indices and its components into Capital IQ platform. This reduced the time to onboard a few market feed from 2 months to
- Built and enhanced various common capabilities like PubSub and Configuration service using .Net and .Java which are used extensively within Market Intelligence division.
- Experience building NOSQL applications with Cassandra and Elastic and Redis
Lead Database Engineer
S&P Global Market Intelligence
04.2015 - 05.2016
- Worked on building various ETL ingestion pipelines for Pricing, Investment research and Fixed Income data sets using .Net and SQL server.
- Expertise in analyzing query execution time and fine-tuning SQL statements in complex applications.
- Experience in database administration activities like backup, recovery and replication related activities
Education
B.E - Computer Science
Osmania University
Hyderabad 07.2007 - 06.2011
Skills
System Design
Strategic Planning
Infrastructure Operations
Project Management
People Management
Product Development
Certification
Amazon Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Timeline
Director of Software Engineering
S&P Global Ratings
01.2025 - Current
Director, Software Engineering
S&P Global Market Intelligence
08.2022 - 12.2024
Associate Director of Software Engineering
S&P Global Market Intelligence
03.2019 - 08.2022
Senior Lead Software Developer
S&P Global Market Intelligence
03.2016 - 03.2019
Lead Database Engineer
S&P Global Market Intelligence
04.2015 - 05.2016
B.E - Computer Science
Osmania University
07.2007 - 06.2011