Srinivasan Sooriyakanthan

VP of Engineering

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India24 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building scalable payment systems.
  • Promoted leadership principles across large teams.
  • Mentored employees for career growth and upskilling.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert specializing in scalable payment solutions and team leadership.

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Software Project ManagementAgile MethodologiesSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Requirements AnalysisSoftware DevelopmentScrumSQL

About

• Have groomed as a seasoned leader in building Payments Engineering Products for global leaders in Payments namely PayPal and FIS • Have built complete end-to-end product features/solutions for international markets using an inner-sourced engineering model in PayPal. • Have experience in building Wallet payment solution end to end. • Has lead teams in building world class high scale Settlement systems specialising in ACH, Card and Tokenisation areas. . As part of PayPal India site leadership team, have been contributing to promoting leadership principles of the company across our large employee population. . Has been a consistent promotor of up-skilling PayPal employees with the industry/domain knowledge with series of Payments101, 201, 301 and 401 sessions which has been receiving consistent positive responses based on the value out of these sessions • Had managed larger engineering teams for highly complex financial re-platforming which is a complete rewrite of a global financial/accounting processing (Post-Payments) system • Active participation in end to end design, Oracle SQL fine-tuning, supporting live issues for the large-scale payment products globally. • Has experience in working with data centre/ business operations team in building live monitoring, debugging and fixing live-site issues within SLA. • Have experience in working with payment integrations with the eco-system players like banks, payment processors, payment-gateways etc., • Believe and follow in investing on people as the leadership style and set right/clear expectations with proper cadence and feedback loop.  Has been keen and mostly successful in managing up the top-talent by fast-track growth and managing out bottom talent with continuous feedback and mutual separation. • Has been a good mentor supporting people's career growth outside of my teams.

Experience

Paypal

5 roles

Senior Director Software Development

Promoted

Dec 2025Present · 4 mos

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2021Nov 2025 · 4 yrs 7 mos

  • Building Payment Products as part of Payment Expansion team for Growth Markets

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2018Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Core Payments Platform - Building highly scalable Payments Processing systems and enabling these capabilities into new markets

Software Development Manager2

Apr 2012Mar 2018 · 5 yrs 11 mos

  • Payments Platform Engineering Manager

Software Development Manager1

Oct 2010Mar 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Payments Platform Engineering Manager

Ness

Manager, Software Development

Dec 2009Sep 2010 · 9 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Payments Platform Engineering Manager for PayPal as a client

Fidelity national information services

Manager, Software Development

Jan 2000Jan 2009 · 9 yrs

Education

Bharathidasan University

Master of Science (M.Sc.) — Information Technology

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