Summary
Niravra Kar is a seasoned software engineering leader with over eight years of experience designing and delivering scalable, cost-efficient backend and frontend systems, currently serving as VP of Software Engineering at BNY where he oversees high-throughput client reporting generating hundreds of thousands of executions daily. He blends deep hands-on expertise in Java, Python, SQL, Spring Boot, Kafka, Airflow and cloud containerization with strong data modeling and root-cause analysis skills to ship complex, business-critical applications on time and within budget. A practical innovator, he has prototyped AI agents and authored a cognitive prompting framework (Executive Scaffolding) to reduce drift and hallucination in production systems. His background includes consulting for Capital One and ANZ on decision-management and interest-generation logic, and earlier work that measurably boosted efficiency and revenue at Boston Children’s Hospital. Comfortable across the full SDLC and Agile practices, he pairs technical rigor with human-centered design to make technology more meaningful and accessible.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Information Systems, Master of Science (MS), Information Systems at Northeastern University
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science And Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science And Engineering at Heritage institute of Technology
English, Bengali, Hindi