Sashwat P.

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led Amazon Pay's architecture simplification across multiple organizations.
  • Reduced payment method launch time from 180 to 56 weeks.
  • Spearheaded the launch of Amazon Pay's first offline payment experience.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on payment systems and software architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology LeadershipSoftware ArchitectureMicroservicesApi Development

Other Skills

ABAPAWS Step FunctionsAlgorithmsAmazon DynamodbAsyncBusiness ObjectsCC++Core JavaData StructuresDistributed SystemsE-paymentsEclipseHibernateJ2EE Application Development

Experience

Amazon

4 roles

Principal Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Defined and executed Amazon Pay's Tech architecture 3-year plan focused on reducing cost to build/operation (Engineering Efficiency), improving resiliency, availability and latency to be BII (Best in Industry).
  • Driving Amazon payments architecture simplification across 4+ organisations to reduce cost to build/operate by 36% in next 3 years.
  • Defined the technical strategy and implementation to reduce latency for Amazon Pay checkout by 55% (TM99 from 5.6 secs to 2.5 secs) by 2027.
  • Spearheading launch of Amazon Pay’s first offline payment experience (Tap-and-Pay), extending Amazon Pay’s ecosystem beyond digital commerce.
  • Designed and developed the payments API/SPIs and refactored Amazon Pay architecture to cut new payment solution provider onboarding by 97% (from 118 months to 4 months), enabling rapid expansion to 15+ PSPs in next 4 years.
  • Defined and executed the strategy to enable Amazon-specific payment methods (e.g., Gift Cards, co-branded credit cards) on existing PSP rails, making these options available offline and reducing PSP onboarding time by 75% (from 16 to 4).
  • Defined Development velocity framework to measure feature development and rollout efficiency initiatives, adopted by 3+ orgs, providing an overall saving of 550 SDE weeks till July’ 2025.
Technology LeadershipDistributed SystemsSoftware ArchitectureWeb Services APIAPI DevelopmentKotlin+3

Senior Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2017Jan 2023 · 5 yrs 3 mos

  • Reduced cost of launching a payment method from 180 to 56 weeks by re-architecting payment systems and building a configurable system.
  • Launched the Amazon Pay API-2.0 based on REST and simpler model to reduce merchant integration efforts by 50%. Support for versioning and more secure API authorisation/delegation model.
  • Re-architected Amazon Pay's core payment processing service from a monolith to microservices, to reduce cost to build/operate by 8 SDE Headcout, improving availability by 0.2% and API latencies by 22% and scaling system from 15 TPS to 350 TPS.
  • Improved availability of Amazon Pay from 99.8 to 99.98%.
  • Authored automated merchant onboarding for different types of partners and ideated it 2 partners (Nippon in JP and PaymentUs in US) leading to 4.5 MM increamental TPV.
Technology LeadershipMicroservicesPayment ServicesKotlin CoroutinesRepresentational State Transfer (REST)RESTful WebServices+6

Software Development Engineer - 2

Mar 2014Oct 2017 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Deprecated in-house merchant registration platform by extending Amazon central merchant registration platform.
  • Enabled seemless migration (click of a button) for merchants from FPS (deprecating payments product) to Amazon Pay.

Software Development Engineer

Feb 2012Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Team : Community Shopping
  • Description : Working on improving customer's gift buying experience and social shopping.

Sap labs india pvt ltd

Software Engineer

Oct 2010Feb 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked on a SAP product namely 'BusinessByDesign'.
  • Developed the Human Capital Management(HCM) solution for new countries (Canada, Mexico, China) and enhanced the existing solution for other countries which involved designing new Business Objects, Controller Objects, Business Configuration Objects. I was involved in developing business logic for different processes involved in HCM i.e. Hiring, Rehiring, Payroll Processing etc. I was involved in developing UI floorplans for different processes involved in HCM.
  • Assigned the Role of Performance Advocate of the team whose job is to monitor the performance metrics of different scenarios. A significant increase in the performance has since been observed.

Education

National Institute of Technology, Silchar

B.Tech — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2006Jan 2010

Kendriya Vidyala INS Valsura

12th — Science

Jan 1994Jan 2006

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