# Mathew Jacob > Principal Software Engineer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mathewjacob A self-motivated Technology professional with 17+ years of IT experience in banking & financial, property & casualty insurance, and e-commerce domains. Specialized in providing secure digital technology architecture & solutions. Areas of interest include authentication, identity & access management, data mining and analytics. • Expertise on agile, full stack secure application development for Business critical /complex applications • Expertise on microservices architecture and deployment on Openshift docker containers • Expertise on blue green deployment strategies to reduce application downtime • Expertise in Identity and Access Management, Authentication & Session Management, Single Sign-on, Multi-factor Authentication, Risk Profiling • Expertise on Banking domain and digital banking areas like payments, forex, reporting, credit cards, loan origination, client onboarding, mainframe integrations • Significant experience on Cordova and native iOS app development and Appstore / Testflight administration • Strong project delivery skills and in leading a team of technical leads & developers • Effective communication skills and experience on working with cross functional, globally located and multi-vendor teams • Significant experience on Property & Casualty Insurance systems for policy administration, billing, claims, agency management, comp raters integrations, replacement cost estimates, regulatory reporting etc. • Significant experience on eCommerce billing, selling, and checkout • Significant experience on SDLC, ITIL change management deliverables, application maintenance and support ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ Silicon Valley Bank Jan 2019 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States • Provide overall technical leadership for projects on Online and mobile banking: includes requirements gathering and analysis, solutions (architecture & design), development, deployment • Design and develop technical solutions that meet user needs with respect to functionality, and NFRs like security, performance, scalability, and reliability • Present design and architecture to Agile Architecture Review Board and get approval • Represent the team in Product Increment Planning sessions for inter team dependencies, and demonstrating the technical deliverables from prior increments • Responsible for the technical delivery of an agile pod consisting of ~15 members • Coordinate and assist with troubleshooting of code defects, data errors and configuration problems to determine the origin of application error • Drive departmental best practices, guidelines implementation and complying to defined standards ### Technical Manager @ Mindtree Jan 2013 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Client : A leading Corporate Bank • Responsible for the technical delivery of all projects in a portfolio • Manage and oversee the delivery of other Technical Leads • Billing, Accruals and Resource Allocations for projects • Conduct Periodic Operational Reviews (on service quality) with the client • Support the client in various audits – (with external audit group and internal audit teams) • Deliver software solutions to projects – includes requirements analysis, design, development and deployment • Analyze the requirements and work with Architects and other Technical Leads to finalize the design • Documentation of design, follow up on outstanding issues, develop proof-of-concept applications and stubs to ensure design feasibility • Presentation of design documents to the Architecture Review Team for review and approval • Work with Project Managers to scope requirements, derive estimates and come up with a schedule for delivery • Deliverable for various stage gates of the IT Control Framework • Coordinate with the Development teams (onsite and offshore) to ensure proper transition from design to coding • Development of the more important and complex pieces of the changes • Work with the Quality Assurance team to review and validate test cases, ensure that the environments for testing are stable and working correctly, coordinate builds and deployments • Support QA, Load and Performance Testing, and UAT (User Acceptance Testing) which includes trouble shooting, analysis, co-ordination and quick turnaround of critical issues • Championing code quality checkpoints • Coordination with business Product Owners, Cyber Security Team and Release Management teams for deployment readiness • Roll out and post production support/team coordination to ensure stability and quality of the application • Post production warranty for 45 days ### Technical Lead @ Mindtree Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area Client: A leading Corporate Bank • Multi-factor Authentication while initiating high risk activities (payments or user administration) • Integration with new core banking and other backend systems via Enterprise Service Bus • Session sharing with partner web application using Coherence • Single sign-on (SSO) using SAML and tokens to multiple partner web applications • Delivered several upgrades to the Oracle Weblogic server stack of the platform – includes restricting access to various server resources like Message Queues, EJBs, Work Manager etc. • New UK Online Banking feature by integration with third party product • Mobile Banking implementation • Each Functional release was also accompanied by a stubbed out Demo release. Demo application is used by the Marketing Team of the client to introduce clients to the features on Digital Banking. ### Associate Consultant @ Mindtree Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 a.) ODC of US Based Commercial Bank (Feb 2009 - till date) - Struts, EJB, Weblogic server, Cactus ### Associate - IT Services @ Mindtree Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 Design and development of JEE applications for Ebay and its associate websites. Have exposure to most of the e-commerce domains like selling, shipping, buying etc. Worked on everything from UI to DB layer, batches, asynchronous data processing etc. Worked on a number of critical projects like Markdown Manager, Shipping Discounts, GMPI and couple of projects in email marketing and preventing take over of seller account take overs by fraudulent users. Roles a.) Senior Developer at Ebay ODC (April 2007 - May 2008) b.) Design Engineer at Ebay ODC (June 2008 - Dec 2008) ### Programmer Analyst @ Mindtree Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 a.) Developer for BlackRock Inc. (November 2005 - May 2006) - OpenCMS, JSP, Java and AJAX b.) Developer at Ebay ODC (June 2006 - March 2007) - Java, Ebay JEE frameworks, XSL ## Education ### B-Tech in Computer Science & Engineering College of Engineering, Chengannoor ### PGSEM in Finance, Analytics Indian Institute of Management Bangalore ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matjacob --- Source: https://flows.cv/mathewjacob JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mathewjacob/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12