Introducing the Technologist Who Has Solved a significant World Banking Headache with 20 percent Reliability Improvement.

Ankur Mahida improved banking reliability by 20% through SRE dependency mapping and automation, transforming fragile legacy systems into resilient, modern infrastructures.

it is a thing you can never bargain about in the present day non-slow non-stop non-pausing fast-paced digitalized financial world where millions of transactions occur within a minute. As much as having the server of the bank shut down temporarily may be chaotic with a lot of losses incurred, the regulatory investigation could come in.

The modern world requires a stable system as a necessity to survive in business. The old “legacy” systems are still in use by several large financial institutions. The processes that are more than a hundred years old are known to be the cornerstone of the financial reporting. However, as the years have passed, they started to give in to the pressure and eventually could not deliver on time (SLAs) and became a big liability to companies in all parts of the world. The Standard IT support could not make any difference to correct these deep-rooted problems. It needed a change.

It is here that one of the pioneering Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)- Ankur Mahida of Barclays intervened with the game changer. He used his knowledge on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to use the rules of software engineering to these operational issues. His greatest contribution was to come up with a new Dependency Map. Think of a giant network of hundreds of jobs executing in the background, Answer Ankur created a means of seeing how exactly they all interact. This provided his team with a clear picture of the points of stagnation in the process, which was not possible before.

With this map, the team that was under his technical leadership was able to:

• Eliminate jams: They achieved this through halting the waiting in line jobs that were not necessary(serialization).
• Plant bottlenecks: They re-write the manner in which the data was executed on the system.
• Issues with tracking: They have managed to install tools that would be able to trace transactions across multiple intricate layers that, previously, were black boxes.

The above mentioned changes were said to have solid 20% improvement in overall reliability. This was an indication that the critical regulatory reports were provided on time, and panic was no more in delivering it as is the case in the past.

Even the very fact that Mahida focused on was high-level automation (substituting manual work with smart code that does not have errors). Businesses could easily observe the observable changes and were able to enjoy its fruits.

• More timely Updates: The number of configuration-related problems that were dropped dropped by 30 percent, but system updates (patching) happened half as quickly.
• Improved Quality: Ankur entrenched into the software release process the so-called safety gates that could help them prevent any unwanted deviances because every new piece of code is immediately run through quality and security checks before it becomes a reality.
• Less Grunt Work: Mahida saved estimated 30 per cent of manual work through automation of the boring and repetitive duties, this enabled the senior engineers to halt firefighting and concentrate in the actual innovation.

The work done by Mahida is a huge thing and innovative to the enterprise technology world. Ankur has redefined a new standard of how global banks could work towards ensuring consistency rather than panicking and responding to failures. His SRE blueprint has become a prototype of other financial institutions that are interested in remaining safe and efficient in a high-volume market.

Ankur Mahida has managed to demonstrate that even the old systems can be future ready through the correct engineering mind and approach.