Nirajkumar Radhasharan Barot is a Lead Software Developer with over 15 years of experience architecting and delivering enterprise-grade software solutions for Fortune 500 companies across financial services, energy, and industrial sectors. He specializes in cloud-native microservices platforms, event-driven systems, and digital transformation initiatives that drive operational efficiency and strategic innovation.
Currently at JPMorgan Chase, Niraj leads end-to-end design and implementation of Morgan Money, a leading institutional trading platform managing $31.1B+ in daily trading volume and $400B+ in assets under management. He architected the Cash Optimizer—a rules-based automation engine that transformed liquidity management for 6,700+ corporate clients, significantly increasing transaction efficiency and reducing manual treasury operations. His technical leadership spans full-stack engineering across Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, AWS EKS, and Kubernetes, with deep expertise in real-time transaction orchestration, compliance automation, and disaster recovery patterns ensuring high system availability.
Previously at USAA, Niraj designed and implemented the Risk Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) platform, a mission-critical operational risk management system serving multiple business lines. He automated control testing and validation workflows, significantly reducing manual processing time while ensuring comprehensive regulatory compliance with OCC and FRB standards.
At Halliburton, Niraj engineered the data backbone for iCruise, an intelligent rotary steerable system revolutionizing directional drilling. He designed high-performance telemetry pipelines processing real-time downhole sensor data, enabling predictive analytics that optimized non-productive drilling time and delivered substantial cost savings per well. His work supported autonomous drilling initiatives across global deployments in the Caspian Sea, North Sea, and Gulf of Mexico.
Across his career, Niraj has demonstrated exceptional impact through technical innovation, team leadership, and business alignment. He has been recognized with multiple industry awards including the Adam Smith Awards 2024, Hart Energy Engineering Awards, and LTTS World Quality Congress Award. His expertise spans microservices architecture, DevOps enablement (Jenkins, Terraform, CI/CD), observability (Splunk, Dynatrace), security governance (OAuth2, RBAC, AES-256 encryption), and AI/ML integration.
Niraj holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from SP University and is SAFe® 5.0 certified. He is passionate about mentoring engineering teams, driving automation-first design principles, and translating complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions that deliver measurable enterprise value.