Hello, I'm

Keerthi Nelaturu

Engineer ยท Systems Architect ยท Technical Leader

I’m a full-stack engineer and systems architect with over 16 years of experience building scalable payment platforms, blockchain protocols, and AI-powered products. Currently building document intelligence systems using OCR, AI-driven parsing, and contextual enrichment at Trestle. I thrive on connecting backend infrastructure with user-facing experiences โ€” designing APIs, dashboards, and developer tools that power real-world platforms.

My career has spanned central banks, global financial institutions, and open-source protocol engineering. I hold a PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, where my research focused on verification and optimization of smart contracts using model checking frameworks.

I blend deep technical expertise in cloud, DevOps, and distributed systems with a strong track record of building and mentoring engineering teams. I’ve also taught as a Professor in George Brown College’s Blockchain Development program, leading courses on advanced smart contracts, DevOps, and scalable blockchain architecture.

Whether I’m building AI-powered document intelligence at Trestle, defining engineering strategy for a settlement platform at the Bank of International Settlements, teaching the next generation of blockchain developers, or architecting RAG-based governance systems, I bring the same rigor and curiosity to every challenge.

Keerthi Nelaturu
16+ Years of Experience
PhD Computer Engineering, UofT
7+ Industry Domains
10+ Projects Delivered
AI/ML Blockchain Cloud Native Cybersecurity FinTech Healthcare E-Commerce Web3
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Domain Expertise

Cross-industry experience that informs better technical decisions

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Central Banking & Payments

Engineered settlement platforms and payment infrastructure at the Bank of International Settlements and Bank of Canada, achieving 10,000+ TPS on cloud-native ledger systems.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences

Led technical discovery for Ontario's provincial radiation treatment repository across cancer centers. Built HL7 data workflows with Mirth Connect and deployed IBM BPM hospital systems at Ottawa Hospital.

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Blockchain & Web3

Founding team member of OpenLibra protocol. Built smart contracts, consensus mechanisms, and governance platforms across Ethereum, Move, Hyperledger, and Corda.

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AI & LLM Systems

Building AI-powered document intelligence with OCR and contextual enrichment at Trestle. Designed LLM-assisted supervisory analytics at BIS. Built RAG-based governance systems with LangChain and embeddings. Created AI readiness assessment platforms for enterprise adoption.

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Cybersecurity & Identity

Advising on cybersecurity posture assessment platforms at OGGN Inc. Architecting Keycloak SSO/MFA authentication, Nginx HTTPS termination, and containerized security infrastructure for enterprise clients.

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Insurance & Risk

Built DLT-based mortgage insurance tracing systems across financial institutions and contributed to digital innovation at Aviva's Digital Garage.

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E-Commerce & Consumer Platforms

Built enterprise web platforms for major consumer brands at Accenture, including P&G's digital presence using Kentico CMS and .NET. Delivered scalable, consumer-facing e-commerce solutions.

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Enterprise Architecture

TOGAF-certified enterprise architect. Partnered with senior stakeholders to align engineering outcomes with organizational strategy across large-scale programs.

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Open Source & Research

PhD researcher at University of Toronto. Published on smart contract verification. Led open-source communities and judged the G20 TechSprint.

Skills & Technologies

Languages

TypeScript JavaScript Python Java C# Rust Go Solidity Move

Frameworks & Libraries

React Next.js Svelte React Native Tauri .NET Spring Boot Node.js Angular Remix Tailwind CSS

Blockchain & Web3

Ethereum EVM L2 Rollups Hardhat Hyperledger Corda Quorum ethers.js web3.js

Cloud & Infrastructure

AKS AWS GCP Docker Kubernetes Terraform Ansible GitOps

Data & Messaging

Kafka Cassandra PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis Databricks MySQL

Healthcare & Integration

HL7 DICOM-RT Mirth Connect IBM BPM FHIR

AI & LLM Systems

LangChain RAG Embeddings AWS Textract OCR & Document AI MCP Context Engineering MLOps

APIs & Protocols

REST GraphQL gRPC SOAP SendGrid ERC-20 ERC-721 ERC-1155

DevOps & Observability

CI/CD Jenkins Datadog Sentry GitHub Actions

Leadership & Practices

System Design Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF) Agile/Scrum Technical Mentoring Stakeholder Facilitation Requirements Engineering

Projects & Technical Work

Selected projects showcasing architecture, implementation, and impact

๐Ÿข Full-Time Employment

TrestleAI โ€” Construction Document Intelligence

Senior Software Engineer

Building an AI-powered document intelligence platform for the construction industry. Uses AWS Textract for OCR and data extraction, combined with AI-driven parsing to help general contractors surface critical information from construction documents, create pursuits, and connect with vendors through intelligent matching.

TypeScript AWS Textract AI/ML Inngest Prisma S3 SharePoint SendGrid
Impact: Owning three core components โ€” Document Intelligence, Document Integration (S3/SharePoint/Box), and Email Sync โ€” powering the AI-first experience for GCs and vendors on the platform.

Cloud-Native Settlement Platform

Advisor & Engineering Leader โ€” BIS

Defined and executed engineering strategy for a modular settlement platform and ledger infrastructure at the Bank of International Settlements, designed for deterministic processing, auditability, and correctness guarantees.

Kafka Cassandra Redis AKS CI/CD
Impact: Achieved 10,000+ TPS throughput with full observability, serving as critical infrastructure for international financial settlement.

CBDC Dual Ledger Project

Fintech Researcher & Architect โ€” Bank of Canada

Led architectural design for a consortium-driven bond settlement system using wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency at the Bank of Canada. Evaluated DLT and non-DLT implementation approaches.

DLT Smart Contracts Oracle Systems Research
Impact: Delivered comprehensive feasibility analysis and oracle business model comparison informing CBDC implementation strategy.

Mano โ€” Internal Blockchain Payments

Blockchain Lead โ€” Scotiabank

Built Mano, an internal permissioned payment system on a private Ethereum network at Scotiabank's Digital Factory. Developed an experimental wallet with POS integration for the cafeteria, enabling real-time blockchain payments used daily by employees. Led blockchain evangelism roadshows across Scotiabank locations, educating teams and brainstorming use cases across departments.

Ethereum Solidity Private Network POS Integration Digital Wallets
Impact: Deployed a live internal payments system used for real transactions, and drove blockchain awareness and adoption strategy across the organization.

DLT Mortgage Insurance Tracing

Blockchain Lead โ€” Scotiabank

Led technical development of a distributed ledger-based tracing mechanism for mortgage insurance payments at Scotiabank, in collaboration with Ontario financial institutions and Aviva Insurance.

Ethereum Solidity Digital Wallets Hyperledger
Impact: Ensured transparency, security, and traceability in mortgage insurance across multiple institutions.

RBC-Aviva Insurance Quoter

Lead Developer โ€” Aviva Digital Garage

Key contributor to the RBC-Aviva merger insurance quote platform, leading the front-end deployment of the customer-facing auto and home insurance quoter. Built a mobile-first application integrated with Guidewire policy center, still in production today.

Node.js Angular Guidewire Mobile-First Insurance APIs
Impact: Deployed a production insurance quoter serving RBC customers โ€” still live and actively used years after launch.
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Digital Hive โ€” Unified Analytics Catalog

Technical Lead โ€” Mark 3 Research

Contributed to building Digital Hive (formerly Theia), a unified analytics catalog platform that aggregates Tableau, Power BI, Qlik, Cognos, and other BI tools into a single no-code dashboard. Led mobile application prototyping and reporting solution delivery.

IBM Cognos Qlik Tableau Node.js Ionic Analytics
Impact: Helped build what became a SOC 2-compliant analytics platform now used by enterprises to unify fragmented BI ecosystems.
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Hospital BPM & Cancer Data Workflows

Intern โ€” Ottawa Hospital

Developed and deployed business process solutions on IBM BPM for hospital operations. Built HL7 cancer-formatted data workflows using Mirth Connect for cancer treatment data integration across hospital systems.

IBM BPM HL7 Mirth Connect JavaScript
Impact: Introduced JavaScript expertise to the BPM team and delivered HL7 integration workflows for cancer treatment data.

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OGGN Cybersecurity Posture Platform

Advisor โ€” InfoSecurity & Architecture

Advising on architecture and infrastructure for a cybersecurity posture assessment platform at OGGN Inc. Built the containerized deployment stack, proxy service, authentication flows with Keycloak SSO/MFA, and HTTPS termination via Nginx โ€” serving enterprise clients including Lee Valley Tools.

Docker Nginx Keycloak Node.js React C# WSL SSL/TLS
Impact: Delivered a demo-ready platform with SSO, MFA, and HTTPS โ€” now being piloted with enterprise retail clients.

Ontario Radiation Treatment Repository

Consultant โ€” Technical Discovery Lead

Led the technical discovery phase for Ontario Health's provincial radiation treatment repository (RT-r) โ€” a centralized DICOM-RT platform for sharing radiation treatment records across all Ontario cancer centers. Hosted and facilitated convergence workshops with multiple centers including Kingston HSC and Thunder Bay.

DICOM-RT HL7 Requirements Engineering Stakeholder Facilitation
Impact: Aligned requirements across multiple cancer centers, designing the questionnaire framework and convergence process that shaped the repository's conceptual architecture.

ElevateXAI โ€” AI Readiness Platform

Consultant โ€” Full-Stack Architect

Built an AI readiness assessment platform from scratch for OGGN Inc., enabling organizations across healthcare, retail, and consumer goods to evaluate their preparedness for AI and GenAI adoption.

.NET React Azure Assessment Workflows
Impact: Delivered a complete end-to-end platform with architecture, deployment strategy, and assessment workflows for organizational AI maturity evaluation.
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JSM Composites โ€” Drone Parts Platform

Freelance Consultant

Built a full customer-facing website and backend for a drone parts manufacturer. Developed Python tooling to parse CAD files and created an optimization algorithm to efficiently nest drone part orders onto material sheets, minimizing waste.

Next.js Tailwind CSS shadcn/ui Python REST API Microservices
Impact: Delivered end-to-end platform from website to manufacturing optimization, all built on open-source tooling.

Plebis โ€” Blockchain Governance Platform

Founder & Chief Architect

Architected an AI-augmented governance layer for Cosmos-based blockchain ecosystems, integrating on-chain proposal data, off-chain signals, and LLM-based summarization workflows.

Kafka PostgreSQL LangChain RAG Remix
Impact: Built decision-support modules using embeddings and retrieval-augmented generation, with reputation scoring models based on validator behavior.
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OpenLibra Protocol

Founding Engineer & Technical Leader

Part of the founding engineering team building OpenLibra, an open-source fork of Facebook's Libra with an active mainnet token economy. Contributed to consensus, governance, and Move-based smart contracts.

Move Rust Distributed Systems Consensus
Impact: Led architectural decisions within a global open-source community, balancing scalability, security, and decentralization.
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Carpe โ€” OpenLibra Wallet

Core Contributor

Built and contributed to Carpe, a cross-platform wallet for the OpenLibra network enabling account creation and coin management. Desktop app built with Svelte, Rust, and Tauri; mobile versions for Android and iOS built with React Native.

Svelte Rust Tauri React Native TypeScript
Impact: Shipped a production wallet across desktop (Windows, macOS, Linux) and mobile platforms, gaining hands-on cross-platform and mobile development experience.
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Rewire โ€” Identity Management System

Hackathon Winner

Developed a blockchain-based identity management system at the Crypto Chicks Hackathon, winning first place for innovative use of decentralized identity.

Blockchain Identity Smart Contracts
Impact: Winner of Crypto Chicks Hackathon 2019.

Homelab โ€” Self-Hosted Infrastructure

Personal Project

Self-hosted cloud and media infrastructure running at home. Nextcloud for private cloud storage and file sync, Jellyfin as a media server โ€” demonstrating hands-on infrastructure, networking, and system administration skills.

Nextcloud Jellyfin Docker Linux Networking
Impact: Hands-on infrastructure management outside of work, reinforcing systems thinking and self-reliance.

Experience & Leadership

Senior Software Engineer

Trestle Jan 2026 โ€” Present

Building TrestleAI โ€” an AI-powered construction intelligence platform. Owning document intelligence, integration infrastructure, and end-to-end architecture for production systems.

  • Building Document Intelligence pipeline โ€” AWS Textract for data extraction with AI-driven parsing and contextual enrichment, enabling GCs to surface critical data from construction documents
  • Owning Document Integration component โ€” connecting S3, SharePoint, and Box as document sources into the platform
  • Owning Email Sync component โ€” integrating email accounts via SendGrid inbound and email engine tooling to filter GC and vendor-relevant information
  • Designed event-driven backend workflows using TypeScript, Inngest, and Prisma
  • Led architecture reviews and technical decision-making with documented trade-offs
  • Built and improved CI/CD pipelines, reducing release risk and improving stability
  • Recognized for precision and organization in DevOps, documentation, and architecture delivery

Advisor & Engineering Leader

Bank of International Settlements (seconded from Bank of Canada) Jan 2023 โ€” Dec 2025

Defined and executed engineering strategy for a modular, cloud-native settlement platform and ledger infrastructure.

  • Enabled 10,000+ TPS throughput with CI/CD pipelines and observability
  • Led AI Supervisory Enhancement initiatives with ML-driven analytics
  • Built and mentored cross-functional squads embedding agile practices
  • Partnered with enterprise architects to align engineering with organizational strategy
  • Served as a judge for the G20 TechSprint
Team: Cross-functional squads

Professor โ€” Blockchain Development Program

George Brown College Sep 2023 โ€” Jun 2025

Taught in the Blockchain Development program, leading courses on advanced smart contracts, DevOps in blockchain, and building scalable blockchain applications.

  • Led Advanced Smart Contracts course covering Solidity patterns, security, and optimization
  • Taught DevOps in Blockchain โ€” CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and deployment strategies for dApp development
  • Designed and delivered Building Scalable Blockchain Apps course covering architecture, performance, and real-world patterns

Fintech Researcher โ€” CBDC Research

Bank of Canada Apr 2021 โ€” Jan 2023

Conducted extensive research on Central Bank Digital Currency feasibility, evaluating DLT and non-DLT implementation options.

  • Led architectural design for the Dual Ledger bond settlement project
  • Prepared comprehensive oracle business model comparison for CBDC systems

Blockchain Lead

Scotiabank Sep 2017 โ€” Aug 2019

Led blockchain strategy and engineering at Scotiabank's Digital Factory, from building production payment systems to driving organizational adoption across departments.

  • Built Mano โ€” an internal permissioned payment system on private Ethereum with POS integration, used daily for real transactions in Digital Factory
  • Led DLT-based mortgage insurance tracing across multiple financial institutions in collaboration with Aviva Insurance
  • Ran blockchain evangelism roadshows across Scotiabank locations, brainstorming and validating use cases with different business streams
  • Collaborated with AI/ML team on credit card fraud detection
Team: Engineering team

Lead Developer

Aviva โ€” Digital Garage Jul 2016 โ€” Sep 2017

Worked on innovative digital solutions in Aviva's Digital Garage, contributing to mobile-first applications and policy center integrations.

  • Built mobile-first application using Node.js and Angular 2
  • Integrated Guidewire with the policy center

Technical Lead

Mark 3 Research Sep 2015 โ€” Jul 2016

Developed reporting and data visualization solutions, and led mobile application prototyping for client projects.

  • Built reporting solutions using IBM Cognos, Qlik, and Tableau
  • Led mobile app development using Node.js and Ionic Framework

Intern โ€” Business Process & HL7 Integration

Ottawa Hospital Sep 2014 โ€” Jun 2015

Developed and deployed business processes on IBM BPM for hospital operations. Built HL7 cancer-formatted data workflows using Mirth Connect for cancer treatment data integration.

  • Introduced JavaScript expertise to the BPM development team
  • Built HL7-formatted cancer data workflows using Mirth Connect
  • Deployed IBM BPM business processes for hospital operational workflows

Senior Software Engineer

Accenture Aug 2008 โ€” Aug 2013

Built and maintained enterprise web platforms for major consumer goods clients using .NET and Kentico CMS, along with SharePoint site development.

  • Built P&G website using Kentico CMS with end-to-end .NET stack
  • Developed and maintained SharePoint sites for enterprise collaboration
  • Delivered scalable web solutions for large consumer-facing brands

Education

PhD in Computer Engineering

University of Toronto 2019 โ€” 2024

Published research on smart contract verification and formal methods for blockchain systems.

Master's in Computer Science

University of Ottawa 2013 โ€” 2015

Focused on distributed systems and software engineering fundamentals.

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Osmania University 2004 โ€” 2008

Foundation in computer science, algorithms, and software development.