Jan 2017 – May 2021 · 4 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Member of an engineering organization that built a payment network that processed more than US$ 300 Billion in 2020 over a billion+ transactions
• Google "Zelle" . You will know :)

May 2016 – Jan 2017 · 8 mos

• Building payment infrastructure for real money gaming.
• Betcade is an ambitious startup that aims to bring mobile payment innovations around real money
• gaming. They are building world’s first dedicated app store for real money gaming as well as a highly
• scalable Mobile Payment platform for the gaming industry.A s head of engineering at Betcade, I was responsible for all of Betcade’s technology architecture & strategy, execution/delivery.

Jan 2013 – Mar 2016 · 3 yrs 2 mos · https://i.likepurple.com/

• Purple is a mobile customer engagement platform that makes it easy for enterprises to deliver personalized and relevant experiences across various devices with minimal IT involvement. Purple's platform consists of:
• SmartEngage: A cloud based highly scalable SaaS solution deployed over AWS[Stack: Nginx, uWSGI, django, Postgres]. SmartEngage provides Cross platform(android/iOS) relevancy triggers based on location, time and other custom defined criteria.
• SmartPages: SmartPages are a cost-effective/simple & cross platform alternative to native mobile apps, while providing a very similar experience. All you need is HTML expertise and you are in business.
• Container Apps( Cards/Schools/Malls By Purple)
• Container apps are generic hosts for SmartPages and one of Purple's distribution channel.
• CardHub: An online market place where business can publish their campaigns developed for SmartEngage platform.
• Responsible for overall engineering, Product development & Technology strategy
• Assembled the core founding team.
• Find more about Purple here:
• https://i.likepurple.com/products/
• Tools & Technologies involved:
• Python, Django, Amazon WebServices(AWS), Nginx, uWSGI, postgress, twilio, Celery for queuing, Tastypie REST api framework, JSON, html, CSS, BootStrap3.0, Javascrpt, jQuery,
• Android & iOS application development.

Nov 2005 – Oct 2012 · 6 yrs 11 mos · https://www.paypal.com

• PayPal Here
• Led a x-functional team effort for "PayPal Here"​. PayPal-Here is a smartphone based point-of-sale(POS) device for merchants to accept payments anywhere
• Successfully rolled out PayPal Here in US & JP.
• Setup a cross-functional monitoring team for operational maintenance.
• Mobile Services & Emerging Markets
• Led a geographically dispersed team responsible for all of PayPal’s mobile backend that serviced around $8+billion TPV in 2012 .
• Led the effort for PayPal Mobile in Brazil in partnership with VIVO & Malaysia with MAXIS.
• Led the engineering effort for launch of PayPal on XBOX platform.
• Core Infrastructure
• Part of PayPal’s core infrastructure team which responsible for a highly available Payment infrastructure servicing US$90+ billion TPV. Oversaw a geo-graphically distributed team for Infrastructure & AppSec.
• Led a cross-functional effort of over 60+ engineers to develop and roll out a build system that was 5X faster than it’s predecessor.
• Staff Software Engineer
• Led the team that supported PayPal's safer payment initiative
• Part of the team that developed global shipping solutions with integration to major shipping providers worldwide.
• Part of the team that developed a bulk shipping solution for eBay's premier merchants.
• Recipient of multiple PayPalian Awards.
• Tools & Technologies involved:
• C++, Java, Objective-C, JSON, REST, UNIX, Teradata, Oracle10g, AMQP, XML, SOAP, SOA, Apache, Tomcat

May 2001 – Nov 2005 · 4 yrs 6 mos · http://www.3ds.com

• Designed and developed a highly scalable and server-less peer-to-peer collaboration infrastructure.
• Involved in the development of path breaking IXSpeeD Suite, which allows parallel product development and is the only collaborative design environment completely interoperable with Dassault Systèmes' V5 PLM solution.
• Designed and developed a collaboration suite for IXDesign, Impactxoft’s flagship product, which allows Simultaneous Product Development(SPD)
• Designed and developed a file level and object level change tracking and change notification mechanism called IxAgent for IXDesign, Impactxoft’s flagship product
• Tools & Technologies involved:
• C++, MFC, WINSOCK, COM, P2P networking, Multithreading, NAT traversal & UDP hole punching,Distributed Hash Table(DHT)

Mar 2000 – May 2001 · 1 yr 2 mos · http://www.verisign.com

• Part of the team, that developed technology for multi-lingual communication over the network on a variety of standard platforms and wireless devices without requiring special language-specific configuration or font installation.[Have you ever wished if you could send an email in Chinese from your black berry? We did it!]
• Highlights:
• Language Engine Implementation and Database Interface.
• Java applet for multi-lingual input.
• Embedded input method development for hand-held devices.