AMILA
KOTTEGE

Technology Leader & AI Specialist

DETAILS

ADDRESS
Toronto, ON
Canada
EMAIL
amila [at] kottege.ca
PRONOUNS
He/Him
EDUCATION
York University
Bachelor of Arts Hons. Information Technology
September 2004 - May 2008
Toronto, ON

Scrum Master Training
May 2010
AWARDS & HONOURS
• 2020 CEO Award for Innovation, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
• 2011 Associate Recognition Award, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
• 2009 Associate Recognition Award, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
• Passion for gardening and growing plants from seed
• Love travelling and learning new languages and cultures

PROFILE

Strategic technology leader with a focus on relationship-driven collaboration and the practical application of AI within Capital Markets. I specialize in augmenting business workflows with AI and modernizing core systems through cloud-native design. By leveraging CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), I prioritize automation to drastically reduce lead times and delivery costs while maintaining high-performance reporting standards.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Senior Manager - Applied Intelligence
Toronto, ON
Jan 2024 – Present
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
  • Leading and upskilling a high-performing team of 5 AI Engineering professionals; established a framework for operational excellence that increased team velocity and technical delivery standards.
  • Architected and spearheaded the rollout of the enterprise-standard AI platform, successfully scaling to 150+ daily active users and centralizing AI capabilities across the organization.
  • Architected and led the implementation of an AI-powered knowledge repository; successfully bridged departmental silos and received high stakeholder praise for unlocking actionable business intelligence.
  • Acted as a player-coach to migrate two complex legacy systems to the cloud, personally architecting the cloud-native patterns and leading the hands-on execution to meet aggressive deadlines with a lean team.
Senior Manager - Platforms and Shared Services
Toronto, ON
2019 – 2024
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
  • Managed 14 high performing individuals for the DevSecOps and Automation team
  • Implemented a framework for bringing in new technologies to IT where maintainability, currency, security, and vendor risk are reviewed
  • Chaired the Solution Review Board to review solution architectures for product teams and establish technology standards across IT
  • Developed an organization wide CI/CD strategy to increase speed to delivery with proper OKRs to track benefits for the business
  • Led automation work to reduce offshore Ops resources; achieved reduction of 5 ops resources through VM automation
Programmer Analyst to Manager
Toronto, ON
2012 – 2019
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
  • Managed the Liquidity Risk team
  • Successfully delivered large projects for the business by establishing meaningful relationships and understanding business requirements
  • Implemented the Liquidity Risk system on time and on budget, exceeding business expectations with no production issues
  • Led development of Asset Liability Model implementing Monte Carlo simulations to predict organizational asset sufficiency
Analyst
Toronto, ON
June 2008 – January 2012
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Canada
  • Worked for the Portfolio Margin Calculator team calculating margin requirements for portfolios based on varying strategies and rules
  • Worked for the Deal Approval Engine (DAP) team analyzing OTC Derivative trades and approving or rejecting them based on multiple checks