Sudeep Nayak

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years in consumer products and cloud solutions.
Led engineering for India's largest payment service provider.
Innovative fintech solutions with multiple patents.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with extensive leadership experience.

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ARMAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAndroidCloud ApplicationsDevice DriversEmbedded SystemsEnterprise SoftwareFull Life Cycle ImplementationGamificationLive StreamingMarketing StrategyNew Product DevelopmentPaaSPlatform Development

About

20+ years experience in delivering consumer products, enterprise infrastructure and cloud solutions. MBA at IIM Bangalore.- Ex-TataDigital, CTO-Fintech for the 0-1 journey to build best in class fintech platform across payments, lending, insurance, cards, investments.- Ex-PayU, Head of engineering for India’s largest payment service provider for the 1-10 journey. Ex-LendingKart, heading engineering for the 0-1 journey.- Passionate about creativity & innovation with key patents across streaming recording, cryptography and fintech. Experience all the way from Concept to Currency on technologies covering Chip to Cloud.- Entrepreneur at heart, founded startups to innovate and build travel entertainment platforms and messaging platforms.- Techno-Business Skills, Product Strategy, Engineering leadership, Platform growth strategy and Process transformation. Nominated for Forbes 100 people managers. Experienced in engaging cross functional teams. Tech diligence for acquisitions.- Built and lead 350+ member distributed teams to deliver innovative, robust, scalable, secure, high quality products and platforms.- Specialist in understanding customer needs & proposing solutions, bridging the worlds of business and IT.- Always looking for new challenges.

Experience

Rippling

Senior Director of Engineering

May 2025 – Present · 10 mos

Misfits capital

Angel Investor

Apr 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

Tata digital

CTO|Tech Head - Fintech

May 2022 – May 2025 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Building best in class fintech platforms for the new generation
CreditCard, Forex, Personal Loans, Buy Now Pay Later
UPI, BillPayments, Checkout, Giftcards, Loyalty, PaymentAggregator
Investments, EquityBroking, MF, FD, DigitalGold
Retail, Embedded, Sachet Insurance

Payu

VP & Head Of Engineering

Oct 2017 – May 2022 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Solving very hard behind-the-scenes product and technology problems for India’s largest payment service provider.
Applying emerging tech to create fast, simple and efficient financial services technology.
Pivotal role in 1-10 journey leading transformations in product engineering, building highly scalable fintech platforms.
1 Provisional Patent

Lendingkart

Senior Engineering Manager

Oct 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead the engineering function for the 0-1 journey. Rearchitected the technology stack for scale as transaction count grew 50x, and replaced third party solutions with custom homebrew solutions to save over $150k in annual recurring expenses, Reorg the team structure for execution as Lendingkart grew 3x in head count, Improved the agile maturity of the team to improve productivity and deliver innovative industry-first products and solutions.

Xential technologies

Co Founder & CEO

Nov 2015 – Sep 2016 · 10 mos · Berlin

SecondScreen is a cloud IoT solution that enables travel companies to not just entertain their customers but also make money off of it.
Won best hardware startup 2015 at Betahaus, Europe’s largest hardware accelerator.
DeutscheBahn, BVG and Flixbus were some of our customers.

Lifesize

2 roles

Product Manager

Nov 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr

Senior Technical Architect

Aug 2009 – Nov 2014 · 5 yrs 3 mos

Responsible for architecting multiple enterprise video conferencing hardware products and cloud services, with over 2000 business customers, each having 20-20,000 users.
3 Patents.

Allgo embedded systems pvt ltd

2 roles

Senior Embedded Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2008 – Jul 2009 · 1 yr 6 mos

Responsible for Design and Architecture of Embedded Software.
2 Publications and 1 Patent.

Software Engineer

Aug 2006 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr 5 mos

Expert in Embedded multimedia product development. Multimedia software, Cryptography algorithms, Protocol development, Operating system optimisation and custom driver development.

Sarnoff corporation

Intern

Dec 2005 – Jul 2006 · 7 mos

Developed photo management software based on face indexing (detection and recognition), using Principal Component Analysis and Support Vector Machines.

Dreamspex

Founder

Aug 2005 – Aug 2006 · 1 yr

Multicomm | http://multicomm.tk
Software to set up P2P networks using the traditional phone line as a physical layer, and an SDK framework for applications to communicate over the connection. The software was targeted at consumers in developing countries. 50,000+ downloads and covered in print media.
Streav | http://streav.sourceforge.net/
Real-time search based on image recognition and speech recognition in video, recorded and archived from a consumer device (phone/glass camera - note that Linux phones became mainstream in 2006, and android in 2008, this app was built assuming Moore’s law). The application was developed in 2006, and was referenced in Patent US 8014573 B2 "Digital life recording and playback" as first to invent.
I-msgr | http://i-msgr.com
SaaS instant messaging solution for small teams.