Senior Avaloq Developer

Sumedh Deshpande

Core banking & platform integration for private banking and wealth management.

years on Avaloq
4+
business units
5
Business Partners migrated
~100k
About

Avaloq, end to end

Avaloq engineer with 4+ years of implementation and customisation experience across five business units: Geneva, Monaco, Singapore, Ireland and Hong Kong. Functional coverage spans payments, deposits, standing instructions, and cost and fees, with technical depth in the Avaloq Message Interface (AMI) and Sensitive Data Separation (SDS). I support business-critical production processing and act as pre-auditor on Avaloq code changes.

Functional

  • Payments & Incoming Payments
  • Money Market Term & Notice Deposits
  • Money Transfers
  • Standing Instructions
  • Security Event Transactions
  • Cost & Fees

Technical

  • Avaloq Message Interface (AMI)
  • Sensitive Data Separation (SDS)
  • Order Validation & Workflow
  • Task & Reporting Framework
  • Batch Jobs & EOD Processing
  • Client Reporting
  • File Processing (AFP) & File Upload Tasks

Platform & tools

  • Avaloq Scripting
  • PL/SQL
  • ICE
  • Avaloq Parameterisation
  • GitHub Copilot & LLM tooling
Experience

Where I've worked

  1. Barclays

    Private Bank & Wealth Management

    Avaloq Developer → Senior Avaloq Developer Jun 2024 – Present
    • Implemented Sensitive Data Separation for the Geneva and Monaco business units across messages, forms and file processing.
    • Owned Money Market Deposits end-to-end for Singapore, from contract setup through pricing, charging and settlement.
    • Delivered SSI automation: ~100,000 Business Partners migrated and ~80,000 SSIs loaded via AMI-based file processing.
    • Pre-auditor in the Avaloq code audit process; changes delivered through ICE, SIT and UAT to production.
  2. Synpulse India

    Client: Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) Limited

    Trainee Analyst → Analyst Jun 2022 – Jun 2024
    • Designed and implemented customised solutions for deposits, security events, money transfers, payments and standing instructions.
    • Technical work on Client Reporting, SDS, AMI, File Processing and File Upload Tasks.
    • Hands-on parameterisation: Additions, Classes, Keys, Workflow and Context Actions, Order Validation, Access Security.
    • Built reports for complex client data requirements and workflows across multiple financial products.
Case studies

Selected work

Before banking

Earlier work & projects

Vision Analysis Intern

Emerging Technologies · Dec 2021 – Mar 2022

All-weather vision sensor network for 360° perception on an autonomous vehicle; custom YOLOv5 object-detection datasets.

Data Analyst & Strategist

Minanno Consultancy · Summer 2021

Researched and designed MIT-WPU's strategic plan for student success. Letter of Recommendation awarded.

Web App Development Intern

Bodhi and Blue Trumpets · Apr 2020 – Sep 2021

React components for the open-source Ensemble library; Node.js, Express, Redux; four production websites. Letter of Recommendation awarded.

Aeolus surveillance bicopter

Final-year project · Jan 2021 – May 2022

Bicopter drone for search-and-rescue and surveillance, built from airframe to flight control.

Humanoid robot

Team of 4 · Dec 2019

Walking humanoid on Arduino with servo actuation and C++ gait logic.

Education

MIT World Peace University (MIT-WPU)

B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering (Robotics)

CPI 9.46 / 10 · 2020

  • Avaloq internal training programme, via Synpulse (Avaloq implementation partner)
  • Python for Everybody Specialization, University of Michigan (Coursera)
Recognition
  • Promotion Promoted to Senior Avaloq Developer · Barclays

    Avaloq Developer (BA3) → Senior Avaloq Developer (BA4)

  • Team Achievement Award · Barclays

    Outstanding contribution to PB&WM strategic priorities

  • Individual Growth Team Member Award · Barclays

    Outstanding contribution to PB&WM strategic priorities

  • Promotion Promoted to Analyst · Synpulse

    Trainee Analyst → Analyst

  • Pat on the Back Award · Synpulse

    Awarded within the first month of employment

Contact

Let's talk Avaloq.

Open to conversations about core-banking delivery, Avaloq engineering and platform integration roles.