Krishna V. Top-Executive
Mission: Delivering trusted data and analytics to empower business decisions— To provide the right data to the right people at the right time with the right quality and right analytics.
Summary:
➢ Visionary technology executive with 25+ years of experience in end-to-end product development, enterprise transformation, and data-driven innovation
➢ Proven success aligning technology strategy with business goals across tactical, strategic, and operational domains
➢ Expert in AI-native data infrastructure, advanced analytics, and scalable architecture for financial services
➢ Trusted partner to executive stakeholders including Portfolio Managers, CIOs, Traders, and Sector Specialists—translating complex needs into actionable solutions
➢ Skilled in building high-performing engineering teams, mentoring talent, and fostering collaborative cultures
➢ Deep experience in vendor evaluation, emerging tech adoption (NLP, sentiment analysis, ESG modeling), and time-to-market acceleration
➢ Board Member at Hope & Comfort and Chief Editorial Board Member at MIT CDO Magazine—bringing thought leadership and social impact to the forefront
➢ Architected and led thematic and ESG initiatives for Asset Management, driving innovation in data sourcing and business metadata
➢ Strong industry network spanning startups to Fortune 500s, enabling strategic partnerships and cross-sector insights
➢ Creator of team vision and mission statements that inspire purpose, accountability, and excellence
Headquarters:
Boston, Massachusetts
Industry:
Financial Services
Title:
Vice President, Engineering - QRI (Quantitative Research & Investments) Data
Company:
Fidelity
Company Industry:
Financial Services
Company Website:
fidelity.com
Company Linkedin:
linkedin.com/company/fidelity-investments
Company Size:
10001+
Current Job Duration:
2 mos
Country:
United States
Work Experience:
Title: Fidelity Investments
Company: Fidelity Investments
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fidelity-investments/
Industry: Financial Services
Company Size: 10001+
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 06-2026
Ends At: Present
Description: ➢ Creating a Data Strategy to support Digital Transformation:
• Creating Roadmaps for short-, medium- and long-term scales
• Automating and Operationalizing
• Creating apps to support Data-Driven Decision Making
• Managing projects involving various Structured, Semi-Structured, and Unstructured datasets and other Data Analytics
➢ Creating an Ecosystem of Data and Product Lines to Scale:
• Web Scraping Platform: Scaled web scraping initiatives
• Text Analytics Platform: ESG Documents, EDGAR, News, and Company events
• Vendor and Open Data Platform
• Maintaining Product Roadmaps for multiple products
➢ Extracting Value and Insights from Data:
• Saved $3M by creating an in-house Big Data tool instead of using a 3rd party vendor
• Driving data projects that augment the investment process at Scale
➢ Designing and Implementing Innovative Ideas and Solutions:
• First to plan and implement RPA, Web Scraping, Open Data, Sentiment, Text Search, automated Data Quality, and AI / ML
➢ Creating Data Operations:
• Monitoring and Maintaining at Scale
• Implementing Data Quality Smoothing for Analytics
➢ Developing Employees’ Data Skills:
• Active member of Analytics Academy Board
• Empowering associates to design, build, and deploy applications that harness data
• Creating courses based on personas and helping many technologists and non-technologists to learn Emerging Technologies and Languages
• Internally Crowdsourcing many Data Projects from the backlog for faster time-to-market
➢ Implemented Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
➢ R&D and building proof-of-concepts like Knowledge Graphs
➢ Expert in Conducting Vendor Evaluations for Buy vs. Build decisions
➢ Strong relationship builder and cross-organizational collaboration expert
➢ Created pipelines for Data Acquisition, Cleansing, Processing & Visualizations
➢ Solving Business Problems with simple but scalable solutions
➢ Strong interpersonal skills and executive presence, I am a Full Stack Developer, Tech Lead, Delivery Lead, and Solutions Specialist with 20+ years of experience in Financial markets and open to work in any language and platform
Developed an NLP (Natural Language Processing) pipeline to analyze unstructured documents, identifying relevant content (e.g. People, Products, Entities, etc) from unstructured documents
Developed and Architected a scalable Web Scraping Platform
Highly motivated, hands-on and cross-functional with the capability of driving high quality solutions to difficult analytical problems
Experience in working closely with Portfolio Managers, Research Analysts, and Quants / Business to identify the Technology needs and create proof-of-concepts
Experience in building prototypes and proof-of-concepts to explore and demonstrate NLP techniques, relying upon the latest academic advancements, and demonstrate their strengths and weaknesses
Experience with searching and identifying new data sources and testing for potential sources of Alpha
Real-time monitoring of various product categories
Experience in processing Earning Call Transcripts, SEC Filings, and Research Reports
Explored various datasets from Social, eCommerce, Browser Statistics, Mobile Apps, SEC Filings, Receipts, Company product feedback, and Promotional Activity
Explored and familiar with 1000s of Open Datasets from Government agencies and various organizations
Experience with BI Tools such as Tableau, PowerBI, SSAS, SSIS, Cubes, and Data Warehousing
Experience with Python, R, C#, AWS, Azure, Windows, and Linux
Experience in latest full stack web frameworks (HTML5, Angular, React) and willing to try open source technologies and make amendments to suit the requirements
Experience in designing solutions using NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Elastic, Redis
Experience in Acquiring, Extracting, and Loading Data using various Schedulers
Experience with SOLR and Search platforms for searching a vast corpus of text, Working with Bloomberg, and FACTSet APIs to build WPF, Silverlight and Asp.Net MVC applications including VSTO, Excel add-ins to help Investment Professionals ..........................................., 1) Worked on Windows Smartclients, Web applications (Asp.Net+DOJO+C#+JavaScript) , UNIX development, and Oracle
2) Lead a team to select Future Technology Stack for a Product Line involving Enterprise Architects, Tech Leads, and Business
3) Performed various Migrations, Upgrades, and infrastructure projects
Responsible for ETL process of Trades, Emp. Accounts, and Emp. Population. Also responsible for Oracle migrations, and UI / Analytics., Applications: SumTOTAL, Perception, Reporting website, Scorecard, Dashboard, implemented Microsoft BI data warehousing solution to speed up reporting process
Responsibilities: Design, develop scorecards, Excel Reports, dashboards using AJAX and Infragistics charting components, Office 2007 automation, XAML. Designed and Developed data warehouse with Microsoft Business Intelligence solution for the scorecard and dashboard. ProClarity tool, developed SSAS, SSIS, and SSRS using SQL Server 2005
Major Accomplishments: Designed and Developed data warehouse solution, AJAX enabled scorecard and dashboard applications, implemented Microsoft Business Intelligence solution to extract data for reporting, and Office automation using C#, VBA, and VBScript to generate Excel reports and to generate reports on the fly., 1) Mobile application development - Palm and Blackberry - Design, develop, and supported 5 different browsers from single source code (this was from 2001 thru 2005)
2) Web application development
Title: CDO Editorial Board Member
Company: Cdo Magazine
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cdo-magazine/
Industry: Publishing
Company Size: 11-50
Location: Greater Boston Area
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 11-2019
Ends At: Present
Description: None
Title: Board Member
Company: Hope & Comfort Hygiene Hub
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hope-and-comfort/
Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management
Company Size: 1-10
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 06-2019
Ends At: Present
Description: None
Title: Sr. Software Engineer
Company: None
Company URL: None
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 01-2000
Ends At: 07-2001
Description: None
Title: Sr. Software Engineer
Company: Planetsoft
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/planetsoft/
Industry: Information Technology And Services
Company Size: 501-1000
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 1998
Ends At: 1999
Description: None
Title: Senior Alignment Engineer
Company: None
Company URL: None
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: Mumbai Area, India
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 06-1993
Ends At: 09-1997
Description: None
Title: Associate Engineer
Company: Bellary Steels And Alloys Ltd.
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bellary-steels-and-alloys-ltd-/
Industry: Mining & Metals
Company Size: 51-200
Location: Bellary
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 07-1992
Ends At: 06-1993
Description: None
Education:
School: Northeastern University - Graduate School of Business Administration
Degree: MBA, Business Turnaround project
Activities: None
School: None
Degree: B.E., Production Engineering
Activities: None
Headline:
Vice President / Team Leader of Advanced Strategies & Research Tech at Fidelity Investments