Raghavendra Bagalkoti, Vice President - Markets Data Platform Delivery Lead, Barclays.

Raghavendra Bagalkoti is a Vice President and Platform Delivery Lead in Markets Technology at Barclays, where he architects and delivers large-scale data platforms and streaming infrastructure for post-trade operations. With over 15 years of experience across global financial institutions — including Barclays, Citibank, and BNY Mellon — he works at the intersection of financial services technology and modern data engineering.

Raghavendra has led enterprise-scale industry programs spanning T+1 settlement, DTCC Transformation, Global Payments Innovation (GPI), SWIFT, and CSDR, and has driven critical regulatory reporting and compliance initiatives across the trade lifecycle. His current focus is cloud-native data platform modernization and the application of AI to automate complex workflows across post-trade operations.

He is an active member of ISDA and ISLA, and is passionate about making financial infrastructure technology accessible to the next generation of practitioners and technologists.