Open to senior delivery leadership — enterprise programs, AI transformation, financial services and healthcare. Remote or SF Bay Area.

San Francisco Bay Area / Financial services & healthcare

Anitha Selvarajan

Principal Technology & AI Product Leader

AI platforms · Enterprise transformation · Product strategy · Program delivery

Enterprise delivery

I turn enterprise complexity into delivered outcomes.

Twenty-five years leading technology delivery across financial services and healthcare — $50M annual portfolios, cross-functional teams onshore and offshore, and AI-led transformation that lands in the P&L rather than the roadmap deck.

See the delivery record
$65M
Cost eliminated
SVB / FCB platform consolidation
$50M
Annual portfolio
Four Agile delivery teams
31
Person team led
StageCoach, Wells Fargo
25+
Years leading delivery
Banking · Healthcare · Security
About

What I actually do

Engineers, business, risk: three definitions of “done.” I make it one, close the gap and close the release.

I translate complex business challenges into technology roadmaps and deliver enterprise-scale change through AI-driven solutions, cloud-native architecture, and data platform modernization.

I work directly with C-suite executives on Agile transformation, agentic AI, robotic automation, and enterprise architecture. I define product strategy, decide what matters, and lead large cross-functional delivery teams across onshore and offshore locations.

I own delivery lifecycles end to end, with real accountability for financial planning, risk, and process. And I care about mentoring strong teams and improving how the work gets done.

Based
San Francisco Bay Area · Open to remote
Domains
Financial services · Healthcare payer · Enterprise IT
Currently
Principal Technical Product Manager & VP, FirstCitizens Bank
Working on
Agentic AI delivery, RAG platforms, data modernization
Career

From building systems to owning the roadmap

Ordered because the sequence matters: the scale of what I run today was built one delivery organization at a time.
  1. Aug 2021 — Present$50M annual delivery portfolio · 4 Agile teams

    FirstCitizens Bank

    Principal Technical Product Manager & Application Owner, VP

    • Led the AI initiative converting customer chatbot queries into vector embeddings — retrieving account, balance, and transaction data via cosine-similarity scoring — and built the reranking and retrieval health-check rules that made it reliable in production.
    • Drove adoption of generative AI and agentic tooling: Copilot Skills and scheduled agents that automate incident analysis and executive dashboards, cutting reporting turnaround by 90%.
    • Led the SVB vs. First Citizens commercial banking platform analysis that shaped executive migration strategy, accelerating consolidation by 6 months and eliminating an estimated $65M over two years.
    • Modernized payments on AWS S3, Kafka, and APIGEE in-house, removing vendor dependency for $6.22M in annual savings.
    • Coordinated a $20M cryptocurrency asset portfolio — Coinbase custodian relationship, blockchain infrastructure through Enterprise Architecture review to Permit to Develop and Operate.
    • Agentic AI
    • RAG
    • Kafka
    • APIGEE
    • AWS
  2. Aug 2013 — Aug 202131-member team · Credit Card, Home Equity, Auto

    Wells Fargo

    Delivery Lead · Product Owner · Agile Transformation Leader, VP

    • Built and ran the 31-member StageCoach team, standardizing testing procedures, review checkpoints, and quality benchmarks.
    • Set Agile governance, SDLC process, Definition of Done, and portfolio metrics; coached cross-functional teams in the US and India through enterprise Agile transformation.
    • Delivered zero-defect releases across multiple .NET products and built the executive dashboards, roadmaps, and status reporting leadership ran on.
    • SAFe
    • Agile transformation
    • Portfolio metrics
    • .NET
  3. EarlierProduct architecture & enterprise software

    McAfee · State Bar of California · iSOFT · Ramco · Thesys

    Principal Product Owner · IT Program Lead · Lead Solutions Architect · Tech Manager

    • Progressive leadership roles across security, public sector, healthcare IT, and enterprise ERP — leading product architecture and enterprise software initiatives at each.
    • Product architecture
    • Healthcare IT
    • ERP
Selected work

Enterprise programs

Programs I owned end to end, with the number they moved.
FirstCitizens Bank

SVB / FCB platform consolidation strategy

Problem
After the SVB acquisition, two commercial banking platforms ran side by side, with no agreed path to one.
What I did
Led the comparative analysis of both systems that set the executive migration path, folding Hogan into the Signature platforms.
  • Impact
  • $65M eliminated over 2 yrs
  • Consolidation 6 months faster
  • Enterprise architecture
  • Executive strategy
FirstCitizens Bank

eConnect → GO digital modernization

Problem
Around 10,000 users across market segments were on an older digital platform and couldn't be moved all at once without disrupting their day.
What I did
Ran a four-year phased migration onto the modern GO platform.
  • Impact
  • ~10,000 users migrated
  • $15.5M/yr program
  • Microservices
  • REST
  • Program delivery
FirstCitizens Bank

In-house payments modernization

Problem
Payments ran on vendor rails, a recurring cost and a dependency the bank didn't control.
What I did
Replaced them with in-house services on AWS S3, Kafka, and APIGEE, and split the Admin domain into Client, User, and Product microservices.
  • Impact
  • $6.22M annual savings
  • Vendor dependency removed
  • AWS S3
  • Kafka
  • APIGEE
  • Microservices
FirstCitizens Bank

Audit-event capture redesign

Rebuilt audit-event capture and reporting with Risk, Compliance, and Governance — the unglamorous work that decides how an examination goes.

  • 80% better audit readiness
  • 50% fewer event gaps
  • Governance
  • SOC2
  • Splunk
Built by me

Data science projects

Hands-on work — built, not directed.

2 shipped · 2 building next

Multi-agent equity research

Nineteen Signals

Problem
Stock screens hand you a verdict without showing their work, and they never tell you what they could not verify. I wanted a rating I could audit line by line — and six research agents working the same watchlist will contradict each other unless something makes them agree on the rules before any of them starts.
Approach
One agent writes the contract — the nineteen parameters, a 0–10 rubric for each, category weights, decision thresholds, red-flag definitions — and researches nothing itself. Four agents read that single file and run in parallel: technical, fundamental and moat, sentiment, and a separate options agent whose verdict is never blended into the stock score. A sixth joins their findings, weights the four categories 20/25/15/40, and applies a red-flag override built as a one-way ratchet — it can move BUY to HOLD and nothing else. Every value carries a source URL and an as-of date; anything unsourceable is recorded as null rather than guessed.
Result
What you see is today's work, not a screenshot from launch day. Every weekday after the market closes, the agents redo their research and the dashboard redraws itself — ten names, nineteen signals each, every score backed by a dated source you can open. And when I change my mind about what matters, it's a one-line edit, not a rewrite.
  • Claude Code
  • Multi-agent orchestration
  • JSON contract
  • Python
  • openpyxl
  • Supabase
  • Data viz
Governed tool access

Permit to Operate

Problem
An MCP server hands a model live tools against real data. In a regulated environment “it works” is not the question — what it is permitted to do, and what it leaves behind, is the question.
Approach
An MCP server with a policy layer in front of it: scoped tools, a permission model, redaction of restricted fields, and a per-call audit log. Built around the questions an enterprise architecture review actually asks before granting a permit to develop and operate — because I have sat on the other side of those reviews.
Result
Finished, and it writes its own permit packet. Four principals (a care manager, a claims analyst, an unattended assistant and an auditor) run real MCP sessions against a synthetic health plan. The packet shows what each was allowed, what was redacted or withheld and why, a break-glass access landing in the auditor's review queue, a kill switch taking effect mid-session, and four attempts to tamper with the audit trail, all caught. Every number on it comes from the run; 44 tests keep it that way.
  • MCP
  • Python
  • Policy layer
  • Audit logging
  • Enterprise architecture

Building next

Agentic data analysis

Show Your Work

In progress
Problem
An answer nobody can re-run is not an answer. Natural-language analytics tools produce a confident number and no way to check it.
Status
Spec complete — five agent definitions and a golden question set written. Building against CMS Open Payments.
Read the approach

Five agents. One profiles the dataset and writes down what it cannot answer. One plans the query without writing any SQL, so the reasoning can be reviewed separately from the syntax. One executes read-only and records the exact query with staged row counts. One tries to break the result by re-deriving it a structurally different way, hunting four specific failures — join fan-out, nulls dropped by a join, a filter that matched almost nothing, a period the data does not fully cover. The last writes a notebook that computes the answer rather than quoting it.

  • Claude Code
  • DuckDB
  • Python
  • Jupyter
  • Eval harness
Retrieval you can measure

Ask the Rulebook

In progress
Problem
Every retrieval demo answers confidently. Almost none report how often they are wrong, or what they do when the answer simply is not in the corpus.
Status
In design. Corpus selected; the evaluation set is being written before any retrieval code.
Read the approach

Retrieval over a public regulated corpus — CMS interoperability rules, Medicare coverage manuals, plan documents — paired with an evaluation set of questions whose correct answers and correct source passages are known in advance. Scored on retrieval precision and recall, answer accuracy, and refusal behaviour: when the corpus does not contain the answer, does it say so, or does it invent one? Failure cases published alongside the wins.

  • Vector search
  • Reranking
  • Claude
  • Evaluation
  • Python

Built at home

Built for my daughter

Shape Detective

My most demanding stakeholder yet. GATE practice puzzles: four nonverbal-reasoning puzzle types, a ten-minute daily mix, levels and stars, and a no-hints practice test. Her name never leaves her device.

Toolkit

What I work with

AI & machine learning

  • Agentic AI solutioning
  • Copilot Skills
  • Claude Agents
  • n8n
  • LLMs
  • RAG
  • LangChain
  • Llama
  • MCP
  • Vector search & reranking

Data platform

  • Databricks
  • Snowflake
  • dbt
  • Airflow
  • AWS Glue
  • SQL
  • Oracle
  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • SSIS / SSRS
  • ElasticSearch

Cloud & architecture

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • OpenShift
  • Kafka
  • APIGEE
  • Microservices
  • REST / SOAP
  • Java
  • C# / ASP.NET
  • Git
  • CI/CD

Leadership & delivery

  • Product strategy
  • Portfolio leadership
  • Roadmap & PI planning
  • SAFe · Scrum · Kanban
  • Matrix leadership
  • P&L & ROI tracking
  • Risk & audit compliance
  • Vendor management
  • Executive communication

Certifications

  • Six Sigma Lean Black Belt
  • Six Sigma Champion
  • Certified Project Management
  • Change Management Specialist
  • Certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC)
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO)
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Education

  • Bachelor of Technology, Information TechnologyUniversity of Madras