Vasista Sirapa
Utrecht
Summary
I am a purpose-driven technology leader with over 14 years of experience, including 6 years focused on delivering impactful digital solutions in the financial sector. I specialize in leading cross-functional engineering teams, driving transformation, and aligning technology strategy with business outcomes. With a strong foundation in agile leadership and cloud-native architectures, I foster high-performing, inclusive teams through trust, empathy, and clear vision. I combine strategic vision with hands-on execution to enable scalable delivery, continuous improvement, and a culture of innovation. Passionate about empowering engineers and building customer-centric platforms, I thrive in environments that value collaboration, ownership, and technical excellence.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technology Lead
Nationale Nederlanden (Nationale Nederlanden Bank)
06.2023 - Current
- Lead 2 multicultural teams of total 10 engineers, accountable for delivery, security, risk management, team setup, and team development. The teams are responsible for building digital cloud banking applications including critical processes like KYC, high traffic processes like Payment, Fraud detection system which serve the Customer needs and regulatory needs.
- Responsible for execution IT Strategy, Roadmap while collaborating with the architects, product owners. My strength lies in providing a clear overview of the project/program across all teams, creating WOW, and developing Governance models for teams, engineers which empowers them to have collaborative, learning experience.
- Having built core banking applications that manage customer and regulator information, I have strong experience working with and managing stakeholders at regulatory bodies such as DNB, AFM, and auditors like KPMG
- Experienced is setting up,and managing business/technical SAAS applications.
- As an Tech Lead, I collaborate with various stakeholders, including Architects, Product Managers, and Product Owners, to develop and execute strategies that drive the department's Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
- Led and created the cross value chain/Department Tech Talent acquisition for effective hiring of engineers, Onboarding program setup.
- Implemented the first NN Bank Digital HUB Nearshore, reducing operational costs by 30%. Scaled the Nearshore from 5 FTE to 40 FTE.
- Highly motivated with proven and trusted history to identify, to take initiative to improve collaboration, empowers engineers/Teams for better efficiency and productivity and innovation.
- Organised and facilitated several Hackathons to bring out effective, innovative results with quick learnings.
- I work with Senior Tech Leadership at Nationale Nederlanden group to define, and drive the Engineer strategy in my department.
- Led NN Bank-wide initiatives involving 80-120 FTEs across multiple value chains, including DORA-compliant incident management and standardization of AWS serverless CDK building blocks.
- Led the program to resolve/mitigate IT Risks and getting in control by solving 1532 Critical & High IT Risk across 3 applications which played a critical role to place the NNBank is risk free category at DNB for Payment product launch.
- Implemented API-Architecture for API first Way of working for the department.
Team Lead/Senior DevOps Engineer
Nationale Nederlanden (Nationale Nederlanden Bank)
06.2019 - 06.2023
- As the lead engineer, modernised and transformed multiple old applications/processes into new technology..
- Lead the team to Automate 6 process with 100 % STP bringing operational efficiency and saving cost of 5 FTEs.
- Cleared the Technical debt and implemented the hygiene along with the help of Jmonitoring team/splunk ITSM.
- Coached and mentored new members and senior analysts in technical skills.
- With the exposure to work on multiple projects as an Analyst and Team lead, learned about the domain, NN Landscape and business functional processes, and ways of working with the AFM, DNB, DCB. Audit.
- Modernised and simplified the investment technology stack, helped in automation the run/operation work, saving 40 hours per month.
- Facilitated workshops to improve the way of working between IT and business with a vision that we can deliver the best when IT and business see themselves as a single entity that works together towards a common vision rather than one providing services to others.
Onsite Team Manager/Senior Developer
Atos (Client - T-Mobile Netherlands)
05.2016 - 06.2019
- Facilitated and managed offshore and onshore team communication and governance.
- Along with the offshore,onshore coordinated , also was the lead middleware developer for the CRM migration program.
- Implemented CI/CD and DevOps WOW working in the new Agile teams setup in a value stream.
Team lead
IBM (Client - Oncor Electric, USA )
01.2014 - 05.2016
- Shifted an underperforming team to a DevOps way of working, improving technical skills and mindset.
- Nurtured leadership skills, motivated team members to improve, and provided constructive feedback to management to enhance the way of working
Application Engineer
IBM
07.2011 - 01.2014
- Expertise in problem-solving, analytics, team management, and technical proficiency in Tibco, Java, Javascript, and integration tools like Data-power.
Java Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
01.2007 - 06.2007
- As an intern, I developed a successful proof of concept for an e-commerce platform for a retail watch company. This experience taught me the importance of a clear vision and understanding the crucial design and development steps in a project's life-cycle.
Education
Bachelor of Engineer - Computer Science and Technology
Manipal Institute of Technology
06.2011
Skills
- Team Management
- IT Strategy
- Problem Solving
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Tech Leadership
- Engineering Management
- Strategy vision
- Analytic
- Visionary
- Facilitator
- Conflict Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Management
- Incident and Change Management
- Vendor Management
- Security
- DevOps implementation
- Software architecture design
- API development
- Technical leadership
- Technology governance
- Strategic planning
- Project management
Certification
- Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) Training – In Progress, 2025
- Certified Professional Agile Leadership(PAL-E) by Scrum.org
- Nationale Nederlanden Leadership Development Program (Lead-1 Course) completed.
- Trained in Boosting Team Performance using Value Stream Mapping.
Languages
English : Proficient
Dutch : Elementary (Completed A2) Studying B1 Level.
Hindi : Proficient
Details
- Utrecht, Netherlands
- 0647305146
- Vasista.sv@gmail.com
- Dutch citizen by Naturalisation.
Timeline
Technology Lead
Nationale Nederlanden (Nationale Nederlanden Bank)
06.2023 - Current
Team Lead/Senior DevOps Engineer
Nationale Nederlanden (Nationale Nederlanden Bank)
06.2019 - 06.2023
Onsite Team Manager/Senior Developer
Atos (Client - T-Mobile Netherlands)
05.2016 - 06.2019
Team lead
IBM (Client - Oncor Electric, USA )
01.2014 - 05.2016
Application Engineer
IBM
07.2011 - 01.2014
Java Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
01.2007 - 06.2007
Bachelor of Engineer - Computer Science and Technology
Manipal Institute of Technology