Jan 2023 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Led 15-member global teams across the US, Canada, Shanghai, and India. Built full-stack applications driving over a million daily visits. Generated $4B annual TPV via PayPal integration.
• Launched flagship PayPal Complete Payments by supervising 10+ cross-functional teams to execute 6+ initiatives (such as Apple Pay), driving $2.8B revenue.
• Helped with the re-architecture and execution of revised Onboarding Platform for 50+ global merchant types, supporting 1M daily visits; boosted sign-up rate by 35%, catalyzing a $7M revenue increase.

Apr 2020 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Managed and grew a team of 10 engineers to build Identity & Access Management (IAM) applications used by 35M merchants, and 100M users globally in 200 markets.
• Spearheaded the launch of critical security features, including Multi-Tenancy Role-based access, Single sign-on, and Enterprise Password Management, leading to a 30% reduction in security gaps.
• Saved business loss opportunities worth $100M in global markets on time-sensitive requests from Compliance, Risk, & Legal teams by strategic project prioritization, and KPIs-based roadmap planning.

Jan 2019 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Engineered end-to-end Distributed Analytics & Recommendations system to power the Merchant Insights suite, empowering merchants with sales, visitor, and customer insights to optimize business growth.
• Architected an integrated solution for the PayPal Marketing Solutions (OLAP-based API schema, D3 Visualizations) and data processing pipeline to manage 1B daily events (Spark streaming, Kafka, Elastic Search); optimized data processing efficiency by 20%.
• 60% improvement in page load time of User List by adopting Module federation, SSR, WebPack optimizations, Core Web Vitals, and Splunk-based performance monitoring.
• Profiled and scaled the Elastic Search infrastructure to store about 5 billion monthly documents for over 18 million merchants, improving query time from 10 seconds to under 500 ms.

Jun 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Development experience in Java, Elastic Search, Web Services, NodeJS, React, Redux, HDFS, Hive, GraphQL
•  Accepted for patent by PayPal on the product idea of "Providing merchant insights with contextual recommendations"
•  One of the first in PayPal, Bangalore to introduce & on-boarded GraphQL to replace the existing REST API features; Held introductory sessions and mentored developers across PayPal Bangalore on GraphQL
•  Spot awards for "Performance improvement in sales insights" and "contextual recommendations"

Jul 2014 – May 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore

• Development experience in Java, JSP, Web Services, Sybase, PL/ SQL, Shell Scripting, Struts MVC, Hibernate, Gradle
•  Full life-cycle involvement from analysis, design, product ownership to implementation and release support, & worked closely with users across business units to develop strategic technology solutions to meet business demands.
•  Build and maintain critical Market Data Server and Price Verification applications concerned with pricing of financial instruments such as securities, swaps, derivatives, etc. and price verifications of millions of trading positions held by the Asset Management group. Implemented and maintain global trading cycles based on global financial markets- including NY, Tokyo, Asia, Australia.
•  Automated the entire release process for zero manual intervention - One Touch deploy. Saved approx 2 man-hours per release.
•  Implemented framework for automated regression testing on entire application-Run time compare over millions of trade positions and details to highlight regressions. Saved approx 4 man-hours per release.

Jun 2011 – Jun 2014 · 3 yrs · Hyderabad

• Development experience in JAVA, J2EE and ADF on Oracle's Project Financials application- FUSION on Oracle web services, data migration, oracle metadata and
•  Played product & developer role to functionally design and implement the end to end process to migrate newly acquired customer’s existing data from the legacy system to the Project Fusion application.
•  Product Development - Designed the architecture, implemented and integrated various complex modules, and delivered the “Financials” & "Invoicing" sub-domains which reduced the Go-To-Market time of “Financial Real Estate application” by a quarter.
•  Automated the entire DB Schema design and validation process with Unix scripts and Stored procedures to save one man-hour per developer each sprint.
•  Underwent training on SOA & Agile methodology