Throughout his career, 'startup specialist' Surendra Shetty has had a knack for building technology from the ground up. The UAE Exchange CIO cut his teeth at a range of financial organisations across India, and is now relishing the challenge of sitting in the company’s IT hotseat.
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Surendra Shetty has built a career on fresh ideas. If his track record is anything to go by, UAE Exchange should have high hopes - a selection of the startups that Shetty has worked for have developed a vast, global reach, much like his current employer.
Shetty completed his higher education at The University of Mumbai – the city where he was born and raised – studying for a Bachelor’s degree in commerce. He concurrently completed a course in IT, his studies covering basic COBOL, system analysis and design, Unix and C language.
Graduating in 1990, Shetty began his professional career in the same year with Mumbai-based software firm Patni Computer Systems as a trainee engineer. “I wasn’t from an engineering background, but relished the challenge,” he says. Undertaking an 18-month training programme, Shetty was set to earn 600 rupees per month, working across three main technologies. However, his Patni tenure was short-lived.
After two months, Shetty received an offer that would earn him a salary six times greater than what Patni were paying. French bank Crédit Lyonnais recruited him as an assistant in their electronic data processing team, and the move would get Shetty off to a great start in his career. He describes his role as being “techno-functional” due to the strong understanding of banking processes and business requirements that he acquired. “I got fantastic exposure to a centralised core banking solution,” he says. “I was one of two members of staff who were supporting 90 people. We also set up a LAN, as well as localising software that had come from head office. We successfully developed reporting, payroll and local learning software in-house.”
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