Product & Delivery Director · Hyderabad, India

SwahavBodepudi

Fourteen-plus years building and delivering the platforms banks run on — digital lending, UPI, ACH and cheque truncation — from product ideation to cloud-native modernisation, for leading banks and NBFCs across India, the Middle East and the U.S.

₹3,000+ Cr Client business impact enabled across lending and payments portfolios
80+ Delivery professionals led across multiple accounts and programs
3 markets Programs delivered across India, the Middle East and the U.S.
14+ yrs Across fintech product, delivery and banking technology operations
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Profile

I lead large, multi-account delivery portfolios for banking and fintech platforms — owning everything from scope definition and effort estimation through release, production stabilisation and commercial outcomes. My work sits at the intersection of product strategy and delivery governance: shaping roadmaps that the market actually wants, then making sure they ship on time, on budget and audit-ready.

Recent years have centred on enterprise digital lending: turning around and modernising a large-scale lending platform for a leading private sector bank, re-architecting it from an in-house monolith to a cloud-native, microservices-based stack with CI/CD pipelines — materially improving delivery velocity and production stability.

Before that, a product career across omni-channel digital banking and payments — cheque truncation, ACH, NACH and UPI — including programs spanning India, the Middle East and the United States. I started on the other side of the table, running data-centre IT projects inside banks, which still shapes how I think about uptime, compliance and what operations teams actually live with.

Current role
Associate Delivery Director
Organisation
Jocata (a BillDesk Co.)
Domain
Lending · Payments
Cloud
AWS · Azure · GCP
Engagement
CXO & client IT leadership
Base
Hyderabad, IN
Languages
English · Hindi
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Career Ledger

Associate Delivery Director

Product Delivery Manager, Dec 2020 – Apr 2022 · A BillDesk company

  • Own end-to-end governance and delivery for multiple strategic banking accounts across fixed-bid, T&M and outcome-driven contractual models.
  • Turned around and implemented a large-scale digital lending platform with multiple lending products for a leading private sector bank.
  • Re-architected the lending platform from a monolithic setup to cloud-native microservices with CI/CD — improving delivery efficiency and production stability.
  • Established multi-account SOPs, governance frameworks, and risk & change controls, significantly improving predictability and audit readiness.
  • Present delivery health, risks and strategic options at senior management and CXO forums.
  • Built and mentored a self-sufficient second line of delivery leadership; support pre-sales with RFP responses, estimations and solution narratives.
Posted · Multi-account portfolio · 80+ team

Global Product Manager

Business Analyst & Product Owner, Feb 2014 – Sep 2016

  • Owned product roadmaps for omni-channel digital banking platforms, including NLP-, bot- and AI-driven solutions.
  • Delivered cheque truncation, ACH and UPI integrations, including mobile-based cheque deposit.
  • Managed multi-million-dollar programs across India, the Middle East and the U.S., ensuring regional compliance and localisation.
  • Coordinated GTM strategy, release planning and market prioritisation; enabled sales teams through demos and collateral.
Posted · 3 regions · Payments & digital banking

Assistant Manager — IT Projects

Data Centre

  • Prepared the PRD for NACH systems and defined use cases across modules.
  • Migrated cheque truncation systems to newer versions, improving operational efficiency.
  • Coordinated with regulators, vendors and internal teams; ran UAT and supported core banking rollouts.
Posted · Regulator-facing delivery

Senior Systems Executive — IT Projects

Data Centre

  • Led enterprise-wide service desk automation and mail system migration.
  • Supported centralised core banking environments and large-scale IT rollouts across branches.
Posted · Where it began
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Capabilities

Deliver

Delivery & Program

  • Portfolio & program management
  • Release & change management
  • Application test management
  • SLA compliance & governance
Build

Product & Platform

  • Product & platform strategy
  • Digital lending platforms
  • UPI · ACH · CTS · NACH
  • Road-mapping & market prioritisation
Modernise

Cloud & Architecture

  • Cloud-native transformation
  • Microservices & CI/CD
  • Multi-cloud: AWS · Azure · GCP
  • Monolith-to-microservices migration
Govern

Commercial & Risk

  • Commercial & margin governance
  • IT strategy planning
  • Risk & change controls
  • Audit readiness
Engage

Clients & Stakeholders

  • CXO engagement
  • Stakeholder management
  • Pre-sales & solutioning
  • Vendor-to-partner transitions
Grow

People & Leadership

  • Team leadership & mentoring
  • Second-line leadership building
  • Performance & productivity programs
  • Scalable delivery org design
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Credentials

Education

B.Tech — VNR Vignana Jyothi Engineering College

Affiliated to JNTU · Class of 2008

Training & Certification

Retail Banking — NIIT IFBI, Chennai

Program in Retail Banking · Pursuing CSPO, Scrum Alliance

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Endorsements

From managers, peers and senior leaders across Jocata, VSoft and client organisations — as written on LinkedIn.

Swahav has the charm to bring any situation under control. He has excellent energy and commitment to get the work done. He got appreciation from both his team members and clients — especially his team members enjoy working with him. Happy to have him as part of the team.
Karthigeyan S Senior Director — Product Management · Agentic AI, Digital Lending, FinTech & SaaS
Senior leader · Aug 2022
I have had the pleasure of working actively with Swahav at VSoft for over 3 years, primarily in conceptualizing new products and solutions. Swahav has a very keen mind and is very knowledgeable about the Banking and Financial Services industry. He is very committed to his work, putting in 15+ hour days whenever required. The quality of his work is excellent — he has a sharp eye, is meticulous, and his attention to detail is praiseworthy. He has demonstrated his communication and persuasive skills in evangelizing products both within the company and to potential customers. On the personality front, Swahav is very pleasant and easy to get along with, with loads of positive attitude — an asset to any organization he works for.
Satish Kumar VSoft Technologies
Managed Swahav directly · Apr 2019
As a Business Analyst, Swahav has proven to be a valuable asset to the organization. His strong analytical and communication skills are further enhanced by his solid technical knowledge and enthusiasm for learning. He performs extremely well as a liaison among clients, business managers, program managers, software development and QA — coordinating design and implementation through the entire development cycle to product release. His clear, detailed and comprehensive documentation makes it very easy for developers to program and QA to test. Swahav is an analyst you would want on your team.
Somak Das Vice President — Business Analyst, Resiliency Technology at J.P. Morgan
Worked on the same team · Jan 2015
Swahav is one of the best techno-functional persons I have worked with. His grasp and appreciation for business is phenomenal. Though he started as a business analyst, he got his arms around technology quickly and could manage tech tasks on his own, to the surprise of the team. He will be a great leadership asset for any organization.
Balaji Pochareddy Managing Director, AISMART Solutions Pvt Ltd.
Senior leader · Dec 2020
A banker turned IT professional — Swahav shows commendable experience in the banking domain, and that sparked me getting him on board with VSoft. It's very rare to see a banker understanding the language of an engineering industry, adapting to the culture, and delivering with extreme quality and standards. A quintessential professional, combined with high elegance in approach and broad-based knowledge of banking — surely an asset for any organization, and I personally guarantee his soft skills.
Ravichandran Chinnasamy AI Delivery · Blockchain · Fintech · Banking
Managed Swahav directly · Jan 2015
With his unwavering confidence and expertise in the BFS domain, Swahav assured me of the best solutions in defining vision, product strategy, prioritizing features and product roadmap decisions. His ability to handle multiple products was unlike any I have seen before — an asset to the company. As a manager, Swahav earns my highest recommendation.
Santhosh Ponnam Associate Director — Technical Delivery, Jocata
Worked on the same team · Nov 2019
Swahav is a go-getter and can manage any kind of people. Highly skilled, he understands every tier of an application. Customer-oriented by attitude, he goes miles to make sure customers are happy. The products he designed received high appreciation internally and from customers too. And above all, he is a friend indeed.
Bijoy Moothedath Director, DevOps
Senior leader · Oct 2021
A self-motivated and intelligent worker — I have worked with him for almost two years and he is always adding consistent value to his team by staying calm and articulate through challenges. He has a very good understanding of banking and technology, especially payment and settlement systems, along with strong analytical tool knowledge, which lets him contribute key insights on time. He is a phenomenal asset to any organisation.
Rangarajan Balaguru Manager — Cyber Risk Consulting at PwC
Worked on the same team · Apr 2019
Swahav is a great asset to any organisation. He is innovative, creative, absorbs things like blotting paper, and has good energy and willingness to participate and contribute.
Srinivas Dronamraju MD & CEO at DronamSoft
Senior leader · Jan 2019