Engineering Leadership

AnuraagVerma

20+ years at Goldman Sachs engineering the platforms behind client communications, document generation & digital transformation for Private Wealth Management.

Anuraag Verma
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Two Decades of
Compounding Impact

From building the first offshore engineering team in Bangalore to leading a global platform that powers Goldman's Private Wealth communications.

2023 — Present
Senior Engineering Manager, VP
Client Communication Platform · Wayne, PA

Architected blue-green deployments with canary rollout for zero-downtime releases. Led Kafka-based ingestion consolidating 15M+ metadata records into sub-1-second query stores. Scaled platform to handle 5M+ annual communication requests for Global and Swiss clients. Drove cross-platform migration of 75M+ records with the firmwide Document Management team. Established a governance model for architectural review, engineering bar-raising, and prioritization of non-functional requirements.

Blue-Green DeploysKafka Pipelines75M+ Records5M+ Annual CommsArch Governance
2018 — 2023
Senior Engineering Manager, VP
Client Communication Platform · Salt Lake City, UT

Founded the platform from concept to production — building a team of 30 engineers and launching 150+ communication types across 70+ delivery flows with email, print, and e-signature channels. Digitized Alternative Investment subscriptions across 150+ funds generating $340M in fees.

0 → 1 Platform$340M Fees150+ Funds93% e-Delivery70+ Flows
2015 — 2018
Engineering Manager, VP
Client Reporting & Portfolio Accounting · Salt Lake City, UT

Owned technology strategy for Client Reporting and Portfolio Accounting, engaging stakeholders across Product, Operations, Legal, and Compliance. Drove 75% throughput improvement in real-time taxlot compute and 91% efficiency gain in year-end tax reconciliation across 32M transactions. Established e-delivery of trade confirms saving $1M annually.

75% Compute Gain91% Recon Gain$1M/yr Savings
2011 — 2015
Engineering Manager, VP
Client Reporting · Salt Lake City, UT

Primary owner of 12+ communication flows delivering ~4.5M documents annually to PWM clients globally — up to 500K documents and 15M pages monthly across statements, tax reporting, regulatory communications, and trade confirms. Independently managed and delivered regulatory and functional projects for US and European business.

4.5M Docs/Year500K Docs/Month15M Pages/MonthUS & EU Regulatory
2005 — 2011
Lead Application Developer, VP
Client Reporting · Bangalore, India

Established Goldman Sachs' Client Reporting engineering presence in Bangalore — grew the team from 2 to 8 engineers who independently delivered business and regulatory projects for Asia and EMEA.

Team 2 → 8Asia & EMEA

What I Build &
Why It Matters

Platform from Zero

Founded the Client Communication Platform from concept to production — centralizing content creation, multi-channel delivery, and e-signature across 150+ communication types for PWM clients globally. Evaluated and integrated vendor products: RR Donnelley (print/email), SmartIQ (e-signature), and OpenText/Actuate (PDF generation).

150+
Communication Types
🔄

Digital Transformation

Multi-year end-to-end digitization of Alt Investment subscription workflows — automating fund manager onboarding and expanding across multiple Fund Administrators.

$340M
In Fees Generated
📊

Data at Scale

Consolidated 15M+ metadata records via Kafka into sub-1-second query stores. Optimized 32M-transaction tax reconciliation by 91%. Benchmarked 75M+ records cross-platform.

<1s
Query Response
🌎

Global Team Builder

Built engineering organizations from scratch across US, India, and EMEA — hiring, structuring, managing managers, driving promotions, and mentoring on multi-year career trajectories.

30+
Engineers · 4 Sites
🛡

Operational Excellence

Blue-green deployments with canary rollout. DORA metrics for improvement. Full observability — Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry. Highest test maturity across all components.

Zero
Downtime Deploys
🤝

Stakeholder Partner

Trusted technology partner to Product, Operations, Legal, and Compliance — translating business priorities into multi-year roadmaps and KPI-driven delivery plans.

MiFID II
FINRA · Swiss Banking

Efficiency Gains
That Compound

Electronic Delivery Rate93%
Eliminated ~$1M/year in print costs across PWM communications
Tax Reconciliation Speed91%
Year-end processing across 32M reportable transactions
Taxlot Compute Throughput75%
Real-time taxlot compute acceleration for portfolio accounting
Query Performance<1s
Sub-second queries on 15M+ consolidated metadata records via Kafka
Print Cost Reduction$1M+
Annual savings through trade confirm e-delivery integration
Deployment Reliability100%
Zero-downtime intra-day releases via blue-green + canary

A Global
Footprint

WAYNE SLC DALLAS BANGALORE HYD
Wayne, PA
Based in Wayne, PA — Platform leadership, architecture, stakeholder partnership
Salt Lake City, UT
Founded the platform team — 30+ engineers, full lifecycle delivery
Bangalore & Hyderabad
Offshore engineering — built from 2 to 8+ engineers, supporting Asia and EMEA business
Dallas, TX
Extended team operations and cross-site coordination

Sharing What
I've Learned

GS Engineering Expo 2023
Microservice Orchestration via Event-Driven Architecture
Firmwide Tech Talk on patterns for orchestrating distributed microservices using Kafka and event-driven design.
Utah Geek Events 2020
Request-Reply EIP with Apache Kafka
Public talk on implementing Enterprise Integration Patterns using Kafka for synchronous request-reply workflows.
Internal Training
Introduction to Kafka
Multi-session training series for 60+ participants across Goldman Sachs engineering teams.
SheTech Foundation
Women in Technology Workshops
Led hands-on workshops for 100+ high school students promoting careers in technology and engineering.
GS PWM Technology
Recruitment Coordination
Coordinated recruitment efforts for PWM Technology in Bangalore across 15+ technology teams.
The best platforms disappear — they're so reliable, so well-integrated, that the business forgets there's engineering behind them. That invisibility is the highest compliment.
— My Philosophy on Platform Engineering

Built With

Architecture

Distributed SystemsEvent-DrivenSOAAPI DesignBlue-GreenCanary ReleasesEnterprise Integration PatternsScalable & Resilient Systems

Data & Streaming

Apache KafkaMongoDBSybase ASEData LakeDoc Lifecycle

Observability & DevOps

PrometheusGrafanaELK StackOpenTelemetryJaegerCloudproberAlertmanagerDORA MetricsCI/CDHAProxy

Development

JavaPythonSpring BootREST APIsApache CamelKubernetesLinuxTest Automation

Leadership

Strategy & RoadmapsProduct ManagementVendor ManagementAgileGlobal Teams