Srini Rajagopal

VP of Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States24 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Scaled revenue by two orders of magnitude at Mercor.
Achieved over 100% annual growth at Navan.
Led teams to handle 500% traffic increase at Instacart.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce engineering leader with extensive experience in scaling technology platforms.

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Skills

Core Skills

PaymentsRisk ManagementRevenue GrowthEngineering ManagementExpense ManagementGrowth ManagementPlatform IntegrationFraud PreventionDispute ResolutionE-commerce EngineeringMachine LearningPricing StrategyData AnalyticsPlatform DevelopmentAdvertising TechnologyUser EngagementData EngineeringSoftware DevelopmentCloud ComputingNetwork EngineeringSecurity Engineering

Other Skills

3DS2 optimizationsAWS ComponentsAds RetargetingAuthCollaborative FilteringContractsDelegated AuthDispute ManagementDisputesDistributed NetworksDynamic PricingEngineeringEvaluation ServiceFraudGrowth Insights

Experience

Mercor

VP of Engineering

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Payments, Contracts, Infra scaling, Evaluation Service, RL env, Risk, Fraud, Supply (Referrals), Eval Service
Scaling revenue 2 orders of magnitude

PaymentsContractsInfra scalingEvaluation ServiceRiskFraud+1

Navan

Head of Engineering Expense (SVP Engineering)

Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs · Palo Alto, California, United States

SVP Engineering
Navan Expense & Issuing grew 100 +% annually
Launch of 3rd party cards (Navan Connect)
Lead Mobile unification, Admin Web and Commerce(Payments, Reconciliation, Risk & Fraud)

EngineeringExpense ManagementPaymentsReconciliationRiskFraud+1

Stripe

Cards Integrity Leadership

Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs

Manager of Manager - Acquiring team - Auth and Disputes team
SCA, Delegated Auth, 3DS2 optimizations
Disputes - Horizon migration, additional PP support for international expansion

AuthDisputesSCADelegated Auth3DS2 optimizationsRisk Management+1

Instacart

Engineering Leadership (Director of Engineering (Customer Buy experience))

Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs

Lead teams working on
Pricing (Dynamic pricing for items, fees, marketplace dynamics)
Order Success (ML and systems for Recommendations, Replacements, Order Quality, entire Post checkout experience)
Orders Management Systems and Payments Processing
Checkout and Delivery Options
Proud of my teams that scaled Instacart during COVID and handled the 500% jump in traffic https://venturebeat.com/2020/05/21/how-instacart-remade-its-systems-to-handle-a-500-jump-in-order-volume/

Dynamic PricingMachine LearningOrder ManagementPayments ProcessingE-commerce Engineering

Uber

Engineering Leadership

Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 · 5 yrs

Growth Insights platform
Enabling the team to build the platform to monitor and provide proactive actionable insights across Uber.
Location and Sensor platform
Bootstrapped and built the platform to capture sensor data and provide real time insights based on ML models built on sensor data for Safety, Insurance and Risk
Growth
Built payment instruments and platforms for user referral and life cycle management.

Growth InsightsSensor DataMachine LearningPayment InstrumentsData AnalyticsPlatform Development

Google

Engineering Leadership

Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 · 4 yrs

Notifications and Stream personalization based on user activity
Ads Retargeting and unified ingestion for real time inventory

NotificationsStream PersonalizationAds RetargetingAdvertising TechnologyUser Engagement

Yahoo

Principal software engineer / Director

Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 · 2 yrs

Collaborative filtering on terabytes of advertiser and user data (delivered $xxx Million in annual incremental revenue for the company)
Founding member of collaborative project with Yahoo Research on Yahoo’s Unified Display market place. work on the real time inventory allocation component.

Collaborative FilteringReal-time Inventory AllocationData EngineeringAdvertising Technology

Amazon

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2003 – Jan 2007 · 4 yrs

Software Platform for messaging and service discovery which were the foundations for several AWS components

MessagingService DiscoveryAWS ComponentsSoftware DevelopmentCloud Computing

Ciena

Software Engineer

Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 · 2 yrs

Lead teams on security, networking, distributed networks, backup / restore
Worked in Optical Networks Inc which was acquired by Ciena (http://edition.cnn.com/2002/BUSINESS/02/18/ciena/)

SecurityNetworkingDistributed NetworksNetwork EngineeringSecurity Engineering