Pre-MBA industry: Finance: Investment Banking
Post-MBA industry: Finance: Investment Banking
2 months ago
8 Feb 2026 07:02
Work Experience – Summary
Nomura | Sr. Software Engineer (Technology Analyst earlier)
July 2024 – Present | Mumbai
Led a 6-member cross-functional team for the Adverse News Monitoring project under Nomura’s Early Career Program.
Delivered BAU report enhancements and release management for DataMart, ensuring stability and timely deployments.
Worked on data engineering and ETL pipelines, including Sybase → MSSQL migration, supporting large-scale enterprise data systems.
Hands-on with Informatica, Oracle, Unix/Linux, Python, OBIEE, Kubernetes, Rancher, and CI/CD pipelines.
Recognized for ownership, coordination, and stakeholder communication beyond core technical responsibilities.
Digital India Corporation (NeGD, MeitY) | Project Intern
Jul 2022 – Jan 2023
Designed and tested conversational workflows for the UMANG AI chatbot used by citizens across India.
Owned FAQ response design, bot testing, and speech accuracy, ensuring user-centric government service delivery.
Gained exposure to large-scale public digital platforms and accountability-driven development.
YES BANK | Trainee – Business & Digital Technology Solutions
May 2023 – Jul 2023
Supported data preprocessing and cleansing for 10K+ records used in ML initiatives.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams on digital transformation initiatives in banking.
Finlatics | Equity Markets Analyst (Intern)
Jan 2022 – Apr 2022
Conducted sectoral research (Banking & Finance, Oil & Gas).
Managed a virtual portfolio benchmarked to BSE 500, gaining fundamentals of market analysis and investing.
Key Achievements
🏆 2nd Runner-Up – Nomura Sustainability Ideathon 2.0, pitching ESG-aligned, scalable solutions mapped to UN SDGs.
🏅 Top 3 Project at SAAVISHKAR 2024 (among 31 teams) for C.O.S.T – Code Optimization & Security Tool using LLMs.
👩💼 Vice President, College Data Science Club – led teams, organized events, and managed initiatives.
📘 Editor & Compiler of “The Forgotten Sagas”, coordinating 33 international writers and publishing a global anthology.
🤖 Designed and tested a government-scale AI chatbot impacting real citizen users.
Academics
B.Tech – Computer Science & Business Systems
SVKM’s NMIMS, MPSTME | 2020 – 2024
CGPA: 3.37 / 4.0
Capstone: C.O.S.T – LLM-based Code Optimization & Security Tool
Strong foundation in CS + business integration, analytics, and applied problem-solving.
Class XII – ISC (Science)
Lilavatibai Podar Sr. Secondary School
93.4%
Academics: NMIMS has a good representation of MBA candidates at these b-schools. To top this, you have a good GPA. The schools grades don't matter when you are applying to b-schools abroad as most b-schools don't ask for them. Aim for a 675+ score which will help your applications to many other competitive b-schools.
Work experience- working at Nomura definitely lends prestige. Your achievements, leadership and $$ impact will matter in your applications as showing these in an impressive way can remarkably increase your chances of acceptance. You seem to be an early career achiever and you have another 6-7 months to keep building your profile. However, I find that your current description is very focused on the technical aspects of your work; your MBA application should instead show your softer skills instead of the technical ones as b-schools are looking to groom leaders in career pathways that require leadership and business skills. Showing this business bent is specifically crucial if you want to grow within investment banking. This brings me to your goals- what do you wish to do post MBA? If you want to transition from back office to front office, then it will not be easy, and you will have to come up with a very solid story to back this. Feel free to schedule a call with me should you want to discuss your goals or the rest of your profile.
ECAs- you've not mentioned about these, but ECAs can often help to set you apart from other applicants. If you have not pursued any ECAs since college, now is the time to get invested.
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