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Kedar Shrikant Kulkarni (M.M.S., M.

Com, MCSD, MCDBA Microsoft Certifications)


2398 Britannia Road W, Mississauga, ON L5M 6B6 • 647-832-2499 • [email protected], LinkedIn

Summary of Qualification
• Capital markets information technology professional with over 19 years of experience in software
development, analysis, reporting with Citi and a short stint with Microsoft.
• Specializing in migrating apps to newer technologies or cross platform technologies eg VBA to Xll / VSTO.
• Strong background in developing C#/VB.Net based application frameworks for Microsoft office based
financial add-ins, and proven skills in VBA and VSTO.Net add ins, Excel XLLs.
• Large report authoring / automation applications with Word, and PowerPoint for Fundamental Analysts and
building ecosystem around complex equity excel models.
• Building cross-platform ReactJs / web addins for Microsoft Office 365 for Excel / Word for Mac.
• Migrating legacy apps to ReactJS, Typescript front end using CefGlue / WebView2 in Microsoft Office.
• Dual qualification, Masters in Commerce and Masters in IT subjects allows a blend of business acumen and
technical aptitude.

Professional Experience

Vice President (VSTO, Excel DNA, RX.Net, ReactJS developer) Feb 2022-Apr 2024
Citi Technology Center, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
• Functional Reactive Programming using RX.Net and Asynchronous functions with excel-dna.
• Developing addins for Citi Velocity Charting APIs with WPF and WebView2.
• Excel front end for Derivative Instruments Pricers which calculate intraday indicative pricing.
• Creating Bloomberg style RTD based dynamic array UDF using web sockets and REST APIs.
• FDC3/Finsemble based application development using .net/ReactJs.
• Create CI/CD pipeline with Teamcity + UDeploy and working towards Release on Demand
• Engineering Excellence III candidate.

Excel Senior Software Engineer (.Net Core microservices, PostgreSQL developer) Sep 2021 -Feb 2022
Thomson Reuters, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Developing products and services for Tax domain. (Flagship OneSource Tax application).
• Creating AWS Cloud based REST/Microservices with Asp.Net Core with PostgreSQL database and
RabbitMQ for messaging with Aspose Cells for server side file generation.
• Creating add-ins / xlls and vba based client solutions with Excel DNA framework.
• Writing PostgreSQL based CTEs Common Table Expressions for the products.
• Creating CI-CD processes with Jenkins with GitHub.

Vice President (VSTO, C#, ReactJS developer) Jul 2017-Sep 2021


Citi Technology Center, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
• Moved to Canada to lead a team of nearshore development team and migrating applications to next
generation unified office addins with react js as frontend with CEF-Glue and Webview 2.
• Develop a unified framework with C#.NET to be reused across Excel, Word, PowerPoint as frontends
seamlessly to allow VSTO addins to share common code across controls / custom xml / task panes.and
take advantage of 64 bit Office 365 and remove dependency on third party vendor framework (ERAS
framework by Capco in VBA and VB.Net).
• Mentor multiple teams in different time-zones in the areas of office development.
• Create Real Time Data based custom functions for Microsoft office Excel using XL-DNA framework.
• Work with Microsoft, third party add-in developers Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, FactSet, Borland, Visible
Alpha for compatibility issues.
• Migrating VBA excel addins to Excel-DNA framework with optimized function batching.
• Create CI-CD processes with Jenkins, Teamcity as one click deployment.

Assistant Vice President (VSTO, VBA, Vb.Net developer) Aug 2013-Jun 2017
Citi Technology Center, Pune, Maharashtra, India
• Lead a team of developers for developing applications for Citi Research business and act as an SME in
Microsoft office development for a office framework developed by Capco with VBA and VB.Net.
• Migrating application from office 2003/ Win XP to office 2010 / Win 7 and then office 2016 / Win 10.
• Resolving escalated production issues with publication workflow systems, excel financial models, word
templates, research workflow systems.
Assistant Vice President (RAD / VBA Developer / Business Analyst) Mar 2006-Aug 2013
Citigroup Global Markets (I) Private Limited, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Act as a business analyst to gather requirements, prioritize, schedule bimonthly agile development cycles
with aggressive timelines for Citi’s custom Global Authoring Workflow platform and Excel VSTO+VBA add-
ins for Citi Research Analysts for complex Financial Models and custom RPA applications.
• Creating fail-fast projects / proof of concepts
• Additional features development, change requests of applications in vb.net and c#.net along with excel vba,
word vba, outlook vba, PowerPoint vba.
• Resolving escalated production issues with publication workflow systems, excel financial models, word
templates, research workflow systems,. prioritizing and scheduling fixes.

Support Engineer (Microsoft Excel – VBA, VSTO) Jun 2005- Mar 2006
Microsoft Global Technology Support Centre (GTSC), Bangalore, Karnataka, India
• Microsoft Research India, based in Bangalore, is Microsoft's third international research facility.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/gtsc/default.aspx
• Resolving Microsoft’s North American, European Professional and Premier Customers’ VBA and MS-Excel
issues.
• Reproduce user issues and crash issues and provide solution.
• Opportunity to write Knowledge Base articles, creating solution objects for end users.
• Exposure to custom applications of clients and advice on improving quality and maintainability.
• Learning new and emerging softwares & technologies like VSTO, xml, .NET, XML web services etc.

Executive Management Information Systems (Insurance and Banking vertical) Jun 2002 – Jun 2005
WNS Global services Private limited, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Awards & Recognitions


• Star Performer award within the first 3 months while with Microsoft for closing escalated cases in excel in
first response.
• Got selected for Prestigious Annual excellence Award for year 2004-05, Townhall Award for (Oct 04- Dec
04 Quarter), Star Performer Award for (April 04), Brainwave Awards for creating VBA software for MIS/
Other IBSS Teams in Excel and MS Access which resulted in substantial cost savings.

Education Qualification
• MCSD (Visual Basic .net 2000 Track), MCDBA (SQL Server 2000 track)
• Master of Management Sciences with IT Specialization – (MMS)
¨ University of Pune with First Class in the year June 2005.
• Postgraduates Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM)
¨ University of Pune with First Class in the year June 2004
• Master of Commerce (M. Com) Second-class
¨ University of Pune June 2000.
• GNIIT - All semesters with A, A+ Grade.
¨ National Institute of Information Technology - Year 2000
• Bachelor of Commerce (B. Com) First class with Distinction - University of Pune June 1998

Other Trainings Attended


• Engineering Excellence I, II, III.
• The Change leader
¨ Leading at Citi – II Training for AVPs - 2015
¨ Leading at Citi - I Trainings for Managers - 2011.
• Bloomberg training with Bloomberg Data Services, Mumbai with Citigroup (Oct 2006)

References
• Available Upon Request

Other Work
Active in Excel-Dna forum to answer user questions. Link

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