Shantanu R Desai

Senior Software Engineer @ EY GDS

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Who I Am

Shantanu R Desai

Senior Software Engineer at EY GDS with 4+ years of enterprise delivery across financial services and media. I specialise in Salesforce platform engineering — Apex, LWC, REST integrations, and secure SDLC — delivering production-grade systems for clients like Northern Trust and Warner Music Group.

5x Salesforce Certified including AI Specialist, I'm deeply invested in Generative AI, cybersecurity, and building automation that eliminates toil. My work has cut production incidents by 35%, saved 15+ hours of weekly manual effort, and improved operational throughput by 25%.

Outside of client delivery, I build and open-source tools across DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and security on GitHub. I believe in building in public and shipping things that matter.

Skills

Technical Expertise

Platforms, languages, and disciplines I deliver with daily.

Salesforce

ApexLWCFlowsSOQLREST IntegrationSales CloudService CloudData Modelling

Security & IAM

IAMZero TrustSOX ComplianceSecure SDLCDevSecOpsField-Level Security

AI & GenAI

Prompt EngineeringLLM IntegrationRAG ArchitectureAI AgentsMCPPython for AI

DevOps & Cloud

GitGitHub ActionsTeamCityCI/CDAWSAzureLinuxTDD
Experience

Career Journey

Parent employers and the client contracts delivered under each.

Current Oct 2022 – Present

EY GDS

Senior Software Engineer → Salesforce Developer
EY GDS
Warner Music Group
Oct 2025 – Present
  • Designed secure Salesforce automation using Apex, LWC, and REST APIs — supporting legal and media ops across 50+ global markets.
  • Built real-time Google Drive → Salesforce REST integration automating doc sync, improving throughput 25% and saving ~3hrs/week.
  • Engineered reusable LWC component library using OOP and GoF patterns — reduced onboarding time 30% and accelerated feature delivery.
  • Diagnosed and resolved critical production race condition in LWC that blocked 2 consecutive sprints; restored reliability within one sprint.
  • Drove unit/integration testing and peer reviews cutting regression incidents 40%; authored design docs across 6 milestones with zero scope creep.
  • Mentored 3 junior engineers through structured reviews and workshops — reduced code review cycle time by ~20%.
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ApexLWCREST APIGoogle APIGoF Patterns
EY GDS
Northern Trust
Aug 2024 – Oct 2025
  • Architected modular Salesforce security automation for global asset manager (AUM $1.2T+) — enforcing IAM controls across 50,000+ users in 20+ jurisdictions under SOX.
  • Implemented CI/CD in TeamCity with 200+ automated regression scenarios — cut production incidents 35% via secure SDLC and TDD.
  • Integrated Salesforce with 3 external financial platforms via REST APIs — enabled real-time bidirectional sync for 500+ financial advisors.
  • Eliminated 15+ hours/week of manual ops through workflow automation; reduced defect leakage 25% across 4 cross-functional workstreams.
  • Owned end-to-end deployments across 8 major releases, resolved 120+ production defects, produced docs for 15+ integration modules.
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SecurityIAMTeamCitySOXCI/CD
Certifications

Credentials

Platform Developer II

Salesforce

Mar 2025

AI Specialist

Salesforce

Feb 2025
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5x Salesforce Certified + Microsoft GenAI + Cisco Cybersecurity — view all on LinkedIn

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Open to exciting opportunities, collaborations, and conversations.

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