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Gagan Bhatia

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Twenty years on the platforms of a large US public pension system, and since 2025 agentic AI systems built to pass the same review. Each case is written the same way: the constraint, the decision, what it cost, what shipped and what it showed. The employer is not named here and nothing on this page speaks for it.

  1. Recent

    Zero-trust identity for a member and employer portal

    A legacy authentication platform retired for federated identity at NIST 800-63 IAL2 and AAL2, with every member and employer identity moved and no service interruption.

  2. 2015 to 2025

    Refunds and terminations, from paper to straight-through

    Three years and forty sprints to take a manual, paper-driven process to zero-touch processing for most requests, with turnaround from days to minutes.

  3. 2015 to 2025

    Fiscal year-end batch, two days to under four hours

    The year-end close re-architected with parallel processing, so a run that took more than two days finishes in under four hours and can be restarted where it stopped.

  4. 2015 to 2025

    Service purchase, from Oracle Forms to a Spring platform

    A thirty-sprint rebuild of service-purchase processing out of Oracle Forms and into a Spring platform spanning the member and employer portals.

  5. 2008 onward

    A payments platform through two custodial-bank transitions

    ACH and check disbursement, bank-file integration and reconciliation, carried through two changes of custodial bank without a late payment.