DEVELOPING TALENT @ NPCI


As part of organizational focus on individual talent development, a number of programs and initiatives have been launched across the organization. One such initiative is to encourage employees to go for self certification and the same is supported by Certification Reimbursment Guidelines. It is heartening to see employees are working on their self development and have started completing these certifications programs. Following employes have successfully completing their certifications till Jan 2021:

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Rajesh Natarajan

Rajesh has successfully completed the CIPSP (Certified International Payment Systems Professional) Certification.

“One should never stop learning because life never stops teaching. I abide by this and always focus on what should I learn next to grow up the ladder. I decided to pursue CIPSP (Certified International Payment Systems Professional) to be updated on the international payment systems and the risks associated in payment systems. Along with professional commitments and personal challenges I was motivated to pursue the course because of my learning passion wherein I devoted my preparation during the travelling time of daily 2-3 hours of time to prepare the materials provided by them and gained the knowledge. More than clearing the exam my focus was on understanding the concepts and see how well it can be implemented in my current role.”

-Rajesh Natarajan


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Pavan has successfully

completed the Cassandra Administrator Associate Certification

“Firstly, I immensely feel proud serving the nation as part of NPCI. I joined BBPS on June 1st 2020. As part of 5K TPS Benchmarking Solution, Cassandra DB layer is introduced in our existing BBPS DB Ecosystem. Management has greatly encouraged me to pursue the Cassandra Administration Related Courses right from the very start, which made me to attend various online events, workshops conducted by #DataStax team and finally made me to complete my Cassandra Administrator Certification(issued by #DataStax)

I would like to take a moment to express my thanks to @Ramesh sir, @Arul sir, @Adaikkappan sir, @Moin, @Ragesh for helping me all throughout the way.”

-Pavan Teja


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Rakhi Verma

Rakhi has successfully completed the Certified Ethical Hacker certification

“I aimed to complete CEH certification since long time and the lockdown and work from home scenario provided me sufficient time to prepare. CEH certification is guaranteed to give me insights into hacking environment and is very aligned with my job profile and career path. Thus, motivated me to get it done.”

-Rakhi Verma


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Balamurugan Kalimoorthy

Balamurugan has successfully completed the Apache Cassandra 3 Administrator Associate and Apache Cassandra 3 Developer Associate certifications

“My journey with Cassandra started when I got opportunity to work on a mission-critical application UPI BDA, that motivated me to learn Highly Available, extremely fast one of the widely used NoSQL database Apache Cassandra and the market for Cassandra is growing across the world and this strong growth pattern yields great opportunity for all the IT Professionals. It is open source and is used by many big companies like Spotify, eBay, Adobe, NASA, Netflix, and Twitter. Even if the project requirements do not allow using this as the main database, mastering it will be hugely beneficial for any Big Data Engineer, who aims to become a valuable specialist. Event logging, metrics collection, performing queries against the historical data — all of these tasks can seem dull, yet they are of utmost importance both for Big Data and DevOps workflows.”

-Balamurugan Kalimoorthy


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Jaba Janet Jayakumar

Jaba has successfully completed the Certified Anti Money Laundering Investigator certificationt

“NPCI has always been focused on enhancing individual talent development, and with the Certification Reimbursement policy I was motivated to learn more and upgrade my knowledge and skill. Getting this CAMI certification was to understand the best practices followed globally in terms of the laws relating to money laundering and terrorist financing and also it was a requirement for my current profile to deliver the work more effectively and adequately.”

-Jaba Janet Jayakuma


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Telaprolu Ramana

Telaprolu has successfully completed the Certified Incident Handler (ECIH) certification

“Incident handling is part of my day to day work and I work with multiple stakeholder both internal and external to resolve the same. ECIH help me to understand the same in most standardized manner and teaches best practices to deal with security incidents thus my goal was to achieve the certification to grow and improve myself and team overall. My Manager (Mr. Ravi Krishna) encouraged me to achieve the same.”

-Telaprolu Ramana


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Ragesh Kandathil

Ragesh has successfully completed the the Apache Cassandra 3 Administrator Associate and Apache Cassandra 3 Developer Associate certifications

“Learning new technology is very interesting and the biggest motivation to complete the certification is the thought of learning all the concept in a structured way and make sure all are understood well.”

-Ragesh Kandathil


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Sriram Rajaram

Sriram has successfully completed the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification

“Since I am working in Quality Control and Business Excellence team, I felt that the Six Sigma Certification would not just add to my skills but also help me to drive improvements in my department and thereby benefit NPCI as a whole. The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification is industry angostic and can be applied for building excellence in any industry”

-Sriram Rajaram

Let’s congratulate them!


Talent Management continues to be a high priority for NPCI and the Talent Management team has been running various Enterprise learning as well as Customized learnings for all simultaneously.

  1. Making NPCI an AI/ML Organization
    In order to be ready for the future, NPCI aims to be a fully AI/ML enabled organization.
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  3. IDP Status
    90% employees’ IDP is created and recorded into the tool.
  4. Trainings Held

    AI / ML Trainings
    With the objective of making NPCI an AI / ML Organization, 9 sessions of 5 hours each have been completed for 737 employees at B2 and below levels and 8 sessions of 3 hours each have been completed for 30 employees at C1 and above levels.

  5. A batch of Graduate Engineer Trainees has been trained on Blockchain, Data Science and Open Source Technologies

    PWC Sessions
    PWC has conducted Leadership Charter (1 session), Decision Making (3 sessions), and Influencing & Negotiation Skills (2 sessions) workshops for Senior Leadership

    Cyber Security and Ethical Hacking
    110 employees were trained on Cyber Security and Ethical Hacking. Out of them 8 employees have com pleted the Certified Ethical Hacker Certification

    A 2 day offsite on team bonding was held for NIPL team.

    Dr Sourabh Sethi conducted a training on Competency.

  6. Feedback
    73% attendees found the Influencing & Negotiation Skills workshop to be excellent. More than 75% attendees found the Introduction to AI / ML session by Prof Vikram Pandya to be very good.

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Overall Feedbank

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Prof Vikram Pandya AI/ML Intro
overall feedback

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Data Science Coures feedback

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Blockchain Training Feedback

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