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Shailendra Malik

SVP - Tech Delivery (Data Platform)

DBS Bank

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25 Apr 2016

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Singapore

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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

13 April 2019 /security Whatever...

Identity, Privacy and Surveillance

Some history behind it Since fiction has roots in our society, far deeper, most of us can imagine. Do you know the first recorded futuristic fiction work written in Modern Age of reason era was written by Thomas More and the name (I am sure some will be surprised to know) was “Utopia” published in 1516 AD? Though the topic of this novel was more f...

30 March 2019 /security Innovation in Financial Services

Tribification of Agile

Imitation is the best form of flattery, but what Spotify did to Agile and what industry doing to it by trying to replicate is atrocious. If something works for a company and it is different from the norm, it means that company has stepped on a self-exploratory journey and discovered the things that are unique to their company and company’s cultur

16 March 2019 /devops Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

AI maturing fast in decision-making domain

Since the day Deep Blue became the trailblazer in beating a human in the game of chess in 1997, the age of rising complex computing algorithms and programs started. With every year programmers identified new complex puzzles and wrote the algorithms that would work out the scenarios and potential improvisations on the go. The advent of Artificial

23 February 2019 /ai Innovation in Financial Services

Are we doing justice with Agile?

DISCLAIMER: I AM WRITING THIS AS A PROVOCATEUR AND INTENTION IS TO STIR UP THE POT, AS IT IS ONLY THE CHAOS THAT WILL GIVE BIRTH TO INNOVATION. I WELCOME YOU TO THE DEBATE BUT, BEFORE YOU JOIN READ WHAT FOLLOWS… If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough. . – Mario Andretti The famous quote, has all the elements to sending ch...

17 February 2019 /devops Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Innovation Enigma for Banks

Each use case that brings Machine learning in play, gets drenched in data. The industry is now waking up to the real challenge of deploying Machine Learning based models in traditional rule-based applications. Machine learning models are data guzzling engines whose accuracy and performance depends on the data quality and continuity. Imagine them a...

03 February 2019 /ai Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Singapore’s Mobile Ecosystems poised for Explosive Growth

Singapore is one of the most vibrant and evolving ecosystems of IT & mobile platforms that are pushing mobile & online payments towards new horizons. I have written about the role played by the banks in adding some vigor to this evolving theatre a few months back, but what we’re witnessing is the organic growth of these mobile ecosystems t...

14 January 2019 Fintech

Understanding the New Customers - Millennials

Age plays an interesting variation in the workplace. We really are entering the golden age of Information technology as a profession where the first generation of the popular mainframes system is now in the retirement age or holding senior positions and as young as Millenials or Generation Z kids are entering the workforce. The value system they b...

06 January 2019 /retail Behavioral Economics in Banking

Personality driven Project Management

Project management as a discipline has undergone a tectonic shift of implementation styles. It is one of the primary disciplines that acknowledges and put in place robust structures in place to assess and manage Risks. Risks that can hamper successful delivery or completion of the projects. With millennials joining the workforces and now entering ...

19 December 2018 /devops Fintech

Project Management for Millennials

It has been quite a few years we’ve broken the cookie cutter career molds with bespoke paths to success. Even the definition of success has changed. Many of us live in naive or duality of the world where a stark difference that existed within our homes were two different value systems found a or collide as they may have a few times. I am someone w...

13 December 2018 Fintech

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