Sep 2025 – Present · 6 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Remote

• I advise early-stage startups at the intersection of AI, FinTech, Crypto, and Payments, helping founders and teams:
• Shape product strategy around next-gen AI capabilities, digital assets, and payment rails.
• Design scalable architectures for compliance-driven FinTech and crypto environments.
• Build go-to-market narratives that resonate with both institutional and retail audiences.

Jul 2021 – May 2025 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote

• Scaled the Payments Platform organization 7× (from 5 to 35+ engineers, including 3 EMs), establishing high-performing teams across payments orchestration, shared APIs, digital wallets, User experience, and trading/fund flow infrastructure.
• Directed architecture and execution for a global payments ecosystem powering $500B+ in annualized transaction volume across 100+ countries, ensuring platform scalability, security, and compliance.
• Launched Coinbase Pay, a fiat-to-crypto onramp, leading the full product lifecycle—from 0→1 vision, team buildout, API design, to go-live execution—driving adoption and regulatory alignment.
• Drove regulatory strategy and platform readiness for global compliance, delivering MiCA- and Travel Rule-compliant systems in partnership with Legal, Risk, and Product. Embedded governance and observability into core architecture.
• Led through volatility, including the 2023 banking crisis and crypto downturn—ensuring operational resilience, vendor continuity, and uninterrupted payment flows across 30+ global financial partners.
• Built a culture of technical and operational excellence through agile transformation, clear OKRs, engineering mentorship, and outcome-focused execution—resulting in 95%+ retention and accelerated team growth.
• Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders to align on product strategy, go-to-market readiness, and risk posture—driving trust, transparency, and delivery in a highly regulated environment.
• Owned platform KPIs including transaction success rate, system uptime (99.99%), and fraud mitigation; implemented risk alerting, payments reconciliation, and compliance observability at scale.
• Defined and executed strategic roadmaps to support institutional and developer-facing clients, expanding platform reach and performance while optimizing cost, reliability, and innovation velocity.

Jul 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr

• Just Walk Out technology enables shoppers to simply enter a store, grab what they want, and just go. Just Walk Out uses a combination of technologies to eliminate checkout lines. Leading a technology group that builds Just walkout technology.

Jul 2018 – Jul 2020 · 2 yrs

• Amazon B2B e-commerce marketplace enables business and institutional customers to shop for their business needs. The organization is building systems and services for B2B marketplace on Amazon.in (https://www.amazon.in/business)

Jul 2016 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs

• Amazon flex enables independent contractors to deliver with Amazon. It provides them an opportunity to be their own boss with great earnings and flexible working hours. The team built pricing engine and automated surge pricing for Amazon flex business. (https://flex.amazon.com/)

Feb 2015 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

• The product discovery tech paves path for making Amazon “The Everything Store”. The goal is to discover all possible product selection from World Wide Web anonymously. The team built distributed crawling and scraping technology for Amazon Retail.

Jun 2011 – Feb 2015 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Payment Gateway for Amazon.in: Amazon.in marketplaces has a secure, safe and scalable electronic payment experience for customers. The team built payment gateway for credit card and net-banking payment methods with redirected payment experience by integrating with external banks and payment providers.

Jul 2006 – Jun 2011 · 4 yrs 11 mos · India, Bangalore

• Worked on device driver software for multimedia devices.