Mayur Kale

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led payments engineering for a major e-commerce platform.
Drove significant improvements in out-of-stock item handling.
Expert in building high-performance engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce expert with strong engineering management skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Payments EngineeringEngineering ManagementData EngineeringMachine LearningSoftware TestingSdlcSoftware Development

Other Skills

API DevelopmentASP.NETAdobe FlexAlgorithmsApache KafkaApache SparkArchitecture ReviewsAutomation TestingBackend OrchestrationBackend SystemsBashBig DataCC++Core Java

Experience

Wayfair

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Leading end-to-end Payments Engineering at Wayfair, overseeing payment experiences and backend orchestration across North America, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Germany. Built and manage a cross-functional team of 21 engineers (Backend, iOS, Android, Web) across Payment Platform and Payments Integration teams.
Leadership & Strategic Impact:
Built Payments Integration team from ground up, scaling from zero to 14 engineers to support and enhance Wayfair's payments infrastructure with multi-PSP support, delivering industry-leading authorization rates
Drove creation of Wayfair's first subscription product with Standalone Membership Purchase and built the company's subscription renewals platform from scratch
Leading large-scale tech transformation initiative, replatforming legacy monolithic systems to microservices architecture for improved scalability and maintainability
Optimized payment latency and reduced total cost of payments through systematic performance improvements and strategic vendor management
Previously led backend systems development for Wayfair Rewards, the company's flagship loyalty program
Cross-Functional Leadership:
Partner closely with Commercial, Product, internal engineering teams, and external Payment Service Providers to align technical strategy with business objectives
Foster engineering culture emphasizing scalable system design, operational excellence, and Gen AI-enabled developer productivity
Drive end-to-end ownership model from solution architecture through production delivery across multiple markets and payment methods

Payments EngineeringBackend OrchestrationCross-Functional Team ManagementMicroservices ArchitecturePerformance OptimizationEngineering Management

Walmart global tech india

3 roles

Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

May 2021 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Led Smart Substitutions, Walmart's flagship initiative revolutionizing out-of-stock item handling through high-performance backend systems, ML models, and advanced data engineering. Built and scaled a team of backend and data engineers to deliver a system that analyzed inventory, customer preferences, and product relevance, providing dynamic alternative recommendations during order fulfillment.
Leadership & Impact:
Drove cross-functional collaboration with product, program management, data science, and external teams to align technical strategy with business objectives
Delivered significant business results: reclaimed 5% of total GMV from out-of-stock items while improving substitution coverage by 10% and associate acceptance by 12%
Architected scalable infrastructure combining real-time ML inference, event-driven architecture, distributed data pipelines (Spark, Hadoop), and high-performance serving systems to support millions of daily transactions
Established engineering culture focused on rapid experimentation through scalable AB testing framework and data-driven decision making
Owned end-to-end delivery from solution architecture to production deployment, balancing innovation with operational excellence

Smart SubstitutionsMachine LearningData EngineeringReal-time ML InferenceEvent-driven Architecture

Staff Software Engineer

Dec 2020 – May 2021 · 5 mos

Senior Software Development Engineer

May 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Ola (ani technologies pvt ltd)

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2015 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Nvidia

Software Engineer

Jul 2011 – May 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos

1) Strong skills in SDLC and Test methodology. Extensive experience in Product, Functional, System, Regression, Beta, Stress, Sanity and GUI testing
2) Manual and automation test execution of core functionalities & new features of GPU device driver on windows platform.
3)Working on release planning,Test Suit planning,Test matrix creation
4)Expertise in testing stereoscopic 3D,Multimedia,Multidisplay projects along with thorough testing of GPU's Thermal and Power Testing project .

SDLCTest MethodologyGPU TestingSoftware Testing

Persistent systems

Project Intern

May 2010 – May 2011 · 1 yr

Developed Final year project at Persistent Systems Ltd. on developing Rich Internet Application providing single GUI to support multiple Database Servers(MySQL,PostgreSQL,MSAcces) using Adobe Flex at front end and PHP technology at server end.

Rich Internet Application DevelopmentDatabase IntegrationSoftware Development