Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs

• Leading the Payment compliance engineering teams to transform the payment compliance experience for our global guests & hosts. And working on structuring and automating compliance and Regulations for Airbnb. Created Playbook for Building Tech Teams in India.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 · 3 yrs · Luxembourg, Luxembourg

• Managed a large-scale technical organization of 40+ people across four cross-functional teams, including Software Development Managers (SDMs), Technical Program Managers (TPMs), and engineers.
• Defined and executed a multi-region expansion strategy across EU, AMER, and ASIAPAC, driving selling partner growth and selection and influencing executive leadership across six technical domains.
• Spearheaded the development of a new EU charter, focusing on automated pricing solutions for Amazon selling partners that scaled from a two-person initiative to a 12-person team, delivering millions of unique selections to new marketplaces.
• Provided technical and strategic leadership for the European Fulfillment Network (EFN) expansion, converging redundant systems and enabling the daily evaluation of over 3 billion items globally. Successfully navigated complex regulatory environments to ensure business continuity.
• Accelerated seller expansion and revenue growth by leading the EU Merchant Fulfillment Technologies (MFN) charter. Oversaw local carrier integrations and enabled planned delivery for Heavy/Bulky items, contributing to over $3 billion in GMS.
• Fostered career growth for 25+ direct and indirect reports, securing promotions and achieving a high organizational satisfaction score through a strong culture of mentorship.

Nov 2018 – Jan 2019 · 2 mos

Oct 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Nurtured the team from ground up and contributed to building the payment stack which processes GMV of more than 100,000 Crores INR/year.
• It was an exciting roller-coaster ride, seeing tons of ups and downs while building a product that is capable of handling big billion days and is continuously witnessing exponential growth of volumes.
• Highlights:
• UPI : Using android instant app for collect UPI flow. It was in POC with merchant checkout pay app.
• Tokenization : Payu provides tokenization and store cards service to enterprise merchants.
• Zero Redirect Module: Innovated a revolutionary flow for one tap payment on merchant checkout without any special integration with Issuer/acquirer or scheme. Applied for Patent and it is being a PayU proprietary solution for merchants with USP of using our dedicated Payu data network for making the payment instead of customer data network and reducing hops from flows like NPCI Rupay cards iframe redirection flow to just OTP submit flow on merchant checkout.
• Online & Biometric Payment: Without internet payment in android.<>
• Cloud Topology: Part of core team members in migrating complete legacy based dedicated server topology to cloud based topology (AWS). Also helped in reducing infra cost by utilizing the resources in optimal manner and refactored code to reduce time complexities. Ultimate goal is to achieve auto-scaling architecture with CI & CD.
• Analytics Platform: Created a pipeline for Data Ingestion, ETL and Analysis (IMQAV model) comprising of tools like Hadoop, Hive, Sql Metastore, PIG, Sqoop, Flume, HCatalog, Spark-Streaming and Presto empowering analysts in decision making with an Inhouse built querying platform.
• Asynchronous Events: Setup Kafka for log and event analysis which is fed into the Hadoop Datalakes. Setup Rabbit MQ as multi-host message broker to facilitate asynchronous services like sms, mail, audit, risk feedback loop etc. Helps in scaling the product.

Oct 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr

• AntiFraud System (MAF): Migrated PayU Latam anti fraud system to PayU India for reducing international and domestic fraud. Also removed paid distributed cache system with open source. Current transactions landing on this service is 2M a day. Overall this system saved Payu ~0.5M$ per year on resources and ~1.5M$ on business loss. MAF provided as a service to merchant with very low latency response built upon drools rule and machine learning system (Neural Network). This system is also used by Citrus(Wallet & PSP)/Lazypay(Lending platform).
• Leveraged Elastic search Inverted Index (Lucene storage) for faster retrieval of similar transactions (Single and combination of attributes). Also used off heap storage(OS cache) for storing 90 days rolling window data which resulted in reducing GC pressure on heap storage by 60%.
• Direct Integration with issuers, acquirers and card network, MPI, ACS and Scheme Certifications.

Apr 2014 – Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• The role involved - Removing roadblocks, prioritizing customer value, solving complex and ambiguous problems, doing architecture design & code reviews, providing thought leadership to inspire and grow superstar SDEs to take on increasingly higher responsibilities, following Scrum, learnings from mistakes and feedback for continuous improvement and maximizing team efficiency.
• Worked on delivering Technology roadmap by engaging closely with the Leadership team – Business & Product stakeholders, CXOs, cross-functional teams - from Sales, Farming, Marketing, Operations, Care, Legal, Support, etc. to align vision, crystalize requirements, bridge gap, define the scope, resource planning, budgeting, scheduling, estimation and driving business metrics.
• Consistently using analytical thinking to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive data-driven decisions. Helping the organization improve conversion funnels and achieve higher success rates.
• Created an open, transparent and collaborative working environment. Always being approachable and making people valued, encouraging experimentation, innovation and sharing creative ideas.
• Delivery Higlights:
• Gitlab CI/CD: To optimize resources, make development less error prone & save deployment time, developed a consistent and automated way to build, package, test and deploy applications seamlessly using Gitlab CI/CD, Docker, Marathon, AWS with a 4 tier test suite (unit, contract, system and integration).
• International Payments: Collaborated with the PayUGlobal teams from Israel, Brazil, Columbia etc in developing the international layer for accepting cross-border payments for merchants like Facebook, Netflix, OLX, Microsoft, Amazon etc in India.

Jan 2012 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Apr 2017 – Aug 2017 · 4 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Remote

• Created Technology Due Diligence Report for Telr Payments based out in Middle East

Mar 2014 – Apr 2014 · 1 mo · MIT Online Professional Education | IIT Delhi

• Trainee

Jan 2010 – Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Jun 2009 – Aug 2009 · 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Worked under Feeds team and project involved providing qualitative financial solutions for Algorithmic Trading using a varied range of technologies like C++, Python, Java etc.

Jun 2008 – Jul 2008 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

• DES and AES Cryptanalysis for government intelligence agency project