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Sujith Surendran

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India24 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of software development experience.
  • Expertise in fintech and applied AI domains.
  • Proven track record in building and leading engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with extensive experience in engineering leadership.

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Agile MethodologiesApacheBerkeley DBC++Computer ScienceDistributed SystemsE-commerceInternetJavaLinuxObject Oriented DesignPHPPerlScalabilityWeb Services

About

Engineering leader with 20+ years of professional software development experience at San Francisco Bay Area, USA and now Bangalore, India. Building and leading teams in startup and established companies. Domains of fintech, applied AI, enterprise software, consumer internet, e-commerce, applicant tracking systems. Currently CTO at Tazapay Past stints: Cashfree Payments, LinkedIn, Informatica, Yahoo,Oracle, Philips. Education: M.S. in Computer Science Stanford University

Experience

Tazapay

Chief Technology Officer

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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2 roles

Senior Director of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2024Jul 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • SecureID: Verification Identity and KYC products and APIs powered by AI
  • RiskShield: Fraud Prevention products for merchants using Payment Gateways and Payouts
  • Payout: Wallet , Connected Bank Payout products, Prepaid Instruments, ERP Integrations
  • Platform Engineering: Core Services, Security, Data Science AI, Onboarding, Operations, Realtime Infrastructure, Internal Risk, AI automations

Director Of Engineering

Jun 2022Mar 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Platform Engineering: Core Services, Security, Data Science AI, Onboarding, Operations, Realtime Infrastructure, Internal Risk, AI automation

Linkedin

Software Engineering Manager / Staff Software Engineer

Feb 2017Jun 2022 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Built multiple teams and established engineering presence for LinkedIn Talent Solutions &
  • Careers Engineering in India.
  • Worked on a range of products and services from Job Seeking LinkedIn members to Talent
  • Seeking LinkedIn customers of Hiring Solution and Application Tracking Systems (ATS).
  • Managed teams in application and infrastructure domains using online, offline, and near line
  • systems (Microservices, REST, Java, Python, Spark, Kafka, Samza, Azkaban, Azure, LinkedIn
  • Infra).
  • Project Highlights: Stabilized customer experience on critical legacy applications with
  • infrastructure upgrades, monitoring and escalation process. Reduced customer onboarding
  • turnaround time ( Talentport https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/talentport-secure-scalable-self-serve-etl-using-open-source-hegde/ ), Feature development on LinkedIn TalentHub (https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/talent-hub) , Launched Internal Mobility MVP, Job Seeker
  • Experiences (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/). Patent pending (Connecting Job Seekers to Talent Seekers US20210065129A1 https://patents.google.com/patent/US20210065129A1) .
  • Project Sangam (https://news.microsoft.com/en-in/features/project-sangam-skilling-anil-bhansali/)
  • Mentored and developed careers of diverse team members and managers. Worked with cross
  • functional stakeholders from multiple teams and geographies. Influenced product direction.
  • Worked on projects involving ground up development, transitions and reverse transitions across
  • geographies. Utilized contingent workers/ contractors when needed with staff augmentation and
  • managed services.
  • A core member of campus and diversity hiring programs at LinkedIn including Women In Tech
  • (WIT).

Informatica

Development Architect

Jan 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Built Informatica Prometheus an Internet of Things application showcased at InfaWorld 2015. As a
  • part of the CTO’s office worked with customers to develop prototypes dealing with complex event
  • processing,real-time analytics, and improving the scalability of Informatica Products with open
  • source technologies. Architecture, Design and implementation on Informatica’s next generation
  • Master Data Management cloud product and architecture on Customer 360.

Yahoo!

Tech Yahoo, Software Dev Eng,Principal

Jun 2006Dec 2014 · 8 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Architecture, Design and implementation on Yahoo Stores, an e-commerce platform that runs thousands of online businesses , selling millions of products and making billions of dollars in merchant sales (https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce ). Built the new version of the platform from the ground up, took ownership on legacy areas,worked on infrastructure projects, scalability/ performance improvements, functional features around merchant and buyer facing applications, led technical initiatives, collaborated with cross-functional teams and external partners. Engineering contact for security including PCI DSS.

Oracle

Project Leader

Apr 2002Jun 2006 · 4 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Designed and Implemented Rating and Carrier Selection modules for the web-based Oracle Transportation Product.Worked on the integration of G-Log(An Acquisition by Oracle) into the Oracle Order Management and Shipping Applications. Created a working prototype of a web-service integration system which was patented.

Philips software center

Software Engineer

Oct 1999Aug 2000 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Developed software within real time and embedded systems for Consumer electronics products of Philips.

Education

Stanford University

Master's Degree — Computer Science

Jan 2000Jan 2002

Bangalore University

Bachelor's Degree — Computer Science

Jan 1995Jan 1999

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