Eli Grinvald

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About Eli Grinvald

Engineering executive with proven record of empowering teams, product and technology to build business value at scale. Foster collaborative culture, creating ONE team that collaborate efficiently across global organization, leveraging modern architecture and technology when/where applicable. Currently, head of cloud journey at Bank of NY Mellon PershingX, the innovative force in the wealth management industry. Previously, head of reliability for the container-based cloud platform (PAAS) at Bank of NY Mellon, one of the largest in the financial industry. Leading reliability, monitoring, centralized logging, automation engineering for the full stack: from infrastructure to PAAS to applications. Having had the privilege to participate in the creation of BNY Mellon’s container platform from the ground up to deliver resilient financial operation and effective use of resources at scale. Previously, founded iDriveThru: leveraging toll tags (e.g, EZPass), envisioning and implementing ground-breaking business model to personalize drive-thru customer service. On a shoestring budget, created a scalable, high availability, 7x24, enterprise grade real-time ordering, payment and rewards platform, deployed on AWS. iDriveThru was installed in all of Wendy's in Staten Island NY for 18 months. Was featured in major national and regional news outlets with rave reviews. Won 2014 innovation award.