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Shailendra Malik

Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Data Platform) at DBS Bank

RBI’s cautious approach kept India safe from BNPL issues

NatWest in UK last week announced that it is ditching its BNPL products and many experts not are attributing this due to the over crowded market and banks may gradually become less interested in these products. London still having a huge heft in the global financial market, has no regulation in place as yet and now Banks are left to decide by them

/payments /regulation Banking

Shailendra Malik

Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Data Platform) at DBS Bank

Harnessing the Power of LLMs and AI Tools for Effortless Project Tracking

In the fast-paced world of project management, staying ahead of timelines and ensuring seamless collaboration among team members is crucial. With the advent of Language Model (LLM) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, project managers now have powerful tools to streamline project tracking tasks. Let us explore how project managers can l

/security /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Shailendra Malik

Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Data Platform) at DBS Bank

Quiet Quitting, in Perspective

Those who are waking up to the term Quiet Quitting and are feeling as lost as I was feeling a week back may refer to this definition as provided by Neil Hare in his Forbes article “The latest buzz phrase coming out of social media is the concept of “quiet quitting,” whereby burned-out or unsatisfied employees put forth the least amount of effort

/people /sustainable After hours

Shailendra Malik

Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Data Platform) at DBS Bank

5 ways to maximize the value of the AI Solutions

When we start talking about AI, it intrigues many, but then they lose interest at the moment we start discussing the technical details. Let me try to keep this piece a more light-hearted to highlight what are the top 5 considerations I keep in mind when I try to find a workable and deployable solution for a problem that business or an end-user fac...

/sustainable /covid-19 Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Shailendra Malik

Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Data Platform) at DBS Bank

Let Your Agile Squads Breathe!!!

Most people are other people, Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, Their lives a mimicry, Their passions a quotation!!! - Oscar Wilde Nothing can sum up social life as beautifully as Oscar while did more than a century ago. We emulate similar behaviour at every social construct that we en

/devops Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Shailendra Malik

Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Data Platform) at DBS Bank

Public Speaking Jitters? No more!!

We attend many conferences, workshops, speeches, office workshops and professional events. In my experience, the professional events have a better cadre of speakers not because of the content or intelligence but because of their clarity of what they want to share. Professional speakers just by their sheer experience of doing it over time, underst

Bigger than Technology

Shailendra Malik

Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Data Platform) at DBS Bank

Godzilla with an itch - Banks' issues with Technology

That itch, damn it is frustrating and annoying but still can’t get rid of that itch, it's there, right there. As the folklore goes it is said that when Godzilla gets an itch at his back he generates lightning to tickle his back and get rid of that itch, but with age, the power to create that strong lightning diminishes and it needs a giant flying

Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Shailendra Malik

Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Data Platform) at DBS Bank

How POC projects made me a better Project Manager

How did I get here? Project Management is a tough job. We need to keep a track on budgets, timelines, scope, stakeholders’ expectations, our team members and even the scope of the project. Sometimes we manage big initiatives, and sometimes we manage BAU stuff. Every project has its own challenges, its own kamikaze moments and its own benefits.

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Shailendra Malik

Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Data Platform) at DBS Bank

Time-To-Market for a Data Platform

Introduction In the last 3 years, I have come across a lot of companies trying to build their data platforms. Unique approaches, aggressive architectures, and varied use cases underline the different features of each of the proposed solution. It is great to see, that industry is embracing the Big data age and even post big data evolutionary cycles...

/devops Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Shailendra Malik

Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Data Platform) at DBS Bank

Amazon, Project Kuiper and Space Race 2

As Amazon’s mothership arrives (on paper), the current systems existing in the space suddenly start looking smaller by a far distance. SpaceX had similar designs, but they were doing it under the guise of Mars colonization. With SpaceX completing a feat of landing its multiple rockets back on three different landing zones (one even non-stationary

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