Srinivasan Sooriyakanthan — VP of Engineering
• 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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert specializing in scalable payment solutions and team leadership.
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Experience: 24 yrs 11 mos
Career Highlights
- Expert in building scalable payment systems.
- Promoted leadership principles across large teams.
- Mentored employees for career growth and upskilling.
Work Experience
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Education
Master of Science (M.Sc.) at Bharathidasan University