Anchika Agarwal

CTO

San Jose, California, United States9 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 10+ years in product development and analytics.
  • Twice gold medalist in academic achievements.
  • Expert in building scalable payment solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong capabilities in payment solutions and data analytics.

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Skills

Core Skills

Api DevelopmentSoftware ArchitectureTeam LeadershipCode Review

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAndroid DevelopmentAngularJSApache SparkBig DataCCSSCareer ManagementCoaching & MentoringCore JavaCross-team CollaborationData StructuresDatabasesDistributed SystemsEclipse

About

Anchika has over 10+ years of rich experience in conceptualising and building products in diverse ecosystem like payments, big data processing, machine learning; building analytical solutions for internal and external stakeholders providing measurable KPIs for business problems; collaborating with multiple teams across different locations; hands on experience on different technology stack. She has excellent academic credentials of being twice the gold medalist both in inter school and during bachelors at National Institute of Technology. She loves sports, dance, and socialising.

Experience

Paypal

7 roles

Software Engineering Lead/ Manager

Promoted

Jul 2023Jul 2024 · 1 yr

  • At PayPal, I led a 10-member team focused on enhancing PayPal's in-store market presence by developing and implementing physical and digital cards for seamless payments. My role involved ensuring the scalability and performance of our APIs, optimized to handle the demands of over 100+ million customers and processing over 500+ million transactions, with a focus on delivering lower user-perceived latency. I collaborated closely with product managers and stakeholders to align our technical solutions with business goals, maintaining a strong customer-centric approach throughout the entire customer lifecycle—from onboarding to post-payment interactions—ensuring a consistently exceptional user experience.
Distributed SystemsSoftware ArchitectureAPI Development

Member Of Technical Staff

Sep 2021Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Distributed SystemsSoftware ArchitectureTeam LeadershipMentoring

Software Engineer 3, PayPal China BU

Mar 2020Aug 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • With PayPal officially announcing to enter China in Jan 2020, this project was aimed at enabling payments in China ecosystem via an acquisition of a Chinese licensed payment company called Gopay; a mammoth task which included adhering to Chinese regulations, establishing new data centers in home company, making PayPal components Geo aware, enabling cross Geo transactions and adhering to audit timelines to get license. As part of this organization, I have worked on multiple domains – payments, checkout and compliance on microservices built on Spring framework.
Software ArchitectureSoftware Design PatternsCode Review

Software Engineer 3, Financial Instruments, Payments

Aug 2019Aug 2020 · 1 yr

  • As part of FI payments Singapore, which was focused on delivering portfolio-based projects, my major responsibility was working with Merchant Hawk Team which is web based merchant facing team based out of US; to enable native bank withdrawals for merchants in different markets like Denmark, Columbia to name a few; which included onboarding on the team’s tech stack of ReactJs, Graphql. While development being my major focus, I was also responsible for meeting the requirements of Product owners and delivering this product end to end.

Software Engineer 3, Data Security

Promoted

Apr 2018Jul 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Built an enterprise scale scanner tool that helps in scanning the entire data infra of PayPal for PII/PCI data. This helps in alerting the sec-ops and privacy teams to recognise existence of deviations and address them appropriately. As part of this project, I was instrumental in designing and implementing the system which is scalable and deployable in multiple zones across PayPal and its subsidies. One of the major aspect of this system was to intelligently scan terabytes of data every data, which provided an opportunity for me to develop neural network for identifying PCI/PII data. This unique experience of building a system from open source technologies, following DevOpsSec model; identifying the gaps in products and improving constantly; a wholistic opportunity from inception of the product to the first MVP, to making it productional while handling the challenges of scalability and performance with integration of Artificial Intelligence.

Software Engineer 2, Platform Analytics

Promoted

Oct 2015Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Worked closely with leadership teams to develop tools, analyze data to support initiatives, dive deep to determine root cause of defects, maintain existing tools, and present findings to business partners to drive improvements. The role also involved complex analysis and diving deep into key metrics based on requests, building and maintaining multiple databases.

Software Developer, Platform Analytics

Jun 2014Sep 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Involved in building Analytical solutions for Hadoop Platforms, Merchant Reporting Solutions & Operational Dashboards for business stakeholders. The performance of these solutions is in accordance with KPI's to quantify business parameters using Advanced J2EE and Web Development Technologies.

Education

Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology

Bachelor’s Degree — B.Tech in Information Technology

Jan 2010Jan 2014

Mercy Memorial School, Kanpur

10+2

Jan 2007Jan 2009

Mercy Memorial School

High School

Jan 1994Jan 2007

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