Devendra Bisht
Engineering Leader | Trading & Wealth Tech, AI/Data Platforms, Payments at Scale | CTO, Kotak Securities
Kotak Securities•Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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2+ decades building cloud-native platforms in regulated financial services — across capital markets, retail banking, payments, and consumer fintech.Currently CTO at Kotak Securities, where I lead technology across the Kotak Neo trading platform, the firm's wealth management technology stack, and shared data and AI infrastructure.Previously, as Head of Technology for Payments & Consumer Propositions at Kotak Mahindra Bank, I led the engineering charter that drove a 100x improvement in payments success rate.Earlier roles: data platform leadership at Ola; built JPMorgan's first public-cloud big-data pilot for the Investment Bank; led core banking transformation programs at RBS for 6 years.What I care about: regulated-fintech platforms that are reliable, observable, and built on sound architecture; AI deployed responsibly with proper guardrails; teams that ship.
Career Timeline
- Kotak SecuritiesCurrentFeb 2026–Present· 8 mos
- Chief Technology OfficerCurrentFeb 2026–Present
- Dec 2023–2026· 2 yrs 1 mo
- Head of Technology - Payments & Consumer PropositionsDec 2023–2026
- Nov 2020–Dec 2023· 3 yrs 1 mo
- Head of Digital Engineering & CXNov 2020–Dec 2023
- 2020–Nov 2020· 10 mos
- Principal2020–Nov 2020
- May 2018–2020· 1 yr 8 mos
- Principal EngineerMay 2018–2020
- Aug 2015–May 2018· 2 yrs 9 mos
- Vice PresidentAug 2015–May 2018
- Aug 2009–Aug 2015· 6 yrs
- Specialist, TechnicalAug 2009–Aug 2015
- Apr 2007–Jul 2009· 2 yrs 3 mos
- Senior Developer, SoftwareApr 2007–Jul 2009
- May 2005–Apr 2007· 1 yr 11 mos
- Software DeveloperMay 2005–Apr 2007