Aravind Uppu

Director of Engineering

Hyderabad, Telangana, India21 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led global subscription management for 130 million users.
Expert in e-commerce and payment processing solutions.
Proven track record in Agile project management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-Commerce expert with extensive experience in payment processing and software development.

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Skills

Core Skills

E-commerceSoftware DevelopmentProject Management

Other Skills

Payments and Financial IntegrationsSubscription managementDirect Payment ServicesIn-App Purchase Servicese-Commerce Migrations ServicesIntegration with SAPFinancial Data pipelineDatabricksRev Assurance ReportsSaaS based cloud ERP/CRM solutionsPaymentsFinanceRiskComplianceDistributed systems

Experience

21 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

10 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 5 mos

Current Experience

Warner bros. discovery

Director Software Engineering

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Director e-Commerce Engineering Teams:
Payments and Financial Integrations, Subscription management teams. This included Direct Payment Services (PSP integrations for Credit Cards, Paypal, Stripe, Spreedly, Adyen, dLocal, Iyzico, Klarna, VIPPS, iDeal), In-App Purchase Services (Apple, Google Amazon, Roku and Samsung receipt management), e-Commerce Migrations Services, Integration with SAP for Revenue Recognition and ownership of Financial Data pipeline into Databricks and associated Rev Assurance Reports.
Managing around 130 million subscriptions across the world.
Processing around 2 billion payment transactions per annum.
Leading senior engineering managers, engineering managers, senior architects, TPMs and a team size of 50 people.

Payments and Financial IntegrationsSubscription managementDirect Payment ServicesIn-App Purchase Servicese-Commerce Migrations ServicesIntegration with SAP+5

Oracle

2 roles

Group Manager, Software Development

Aug 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

Visionary engineering leader with rich experience in leading product development for SaaS based cloud ERP/CRM solutions, E-commerce, Payments, Finance, Risk, Compliance and large scale highly available distributed systems.
Managing Dev managers, QA managers and Senior Architects for a team size of 30 members.
Cross Geographical Stake holder management, business stakeholders, product management, top management, communication, coordination, prioritization and roadmap discussions.
Developing software development strategy utilizing industry standards and best practices.
Creating roadmap and timing of implementation of the roadmap based on business requirements and strategy.
Proficient in Leading Cross functional, Cross location, offshore and onshore high performance Agile product development teams.
Highly skilled in project management activities entailing planning, scheduling, project progress monitoring, regular reporting of progress to various stakeholders, executives and identifying project risks, developing mitigation plans and responsible for end-to-end delivery.
Proven track record of successfully Hiring, Mentoring, Motivating, Retaining, and Managing Talented Software Professionals across multiple Levels [ ICs, Architects, Product/Dev/QA Managers]
Highly customer focused and customer centric, driven by business needs always.
Hands on experience in SaaS based cloud ERP/CRM solutions, E-commerce Product Development, Solution Architecture, Agile, Scrum and People Management.
Hands on experience in Business Analysis, Resource Optimization, Infrastructure Setup, Client Relationship Management and Team Management, leadership.
Active Contributor and Reviewer of various Design and Architectural Strategies.
Very strong leadership skills in setting up the new teams, recruitment, onboarding, procuring the hardware, trainings and driving the projects end to end.
Ardent Believer and Expert Practitioner of Agile Methodologies for past 12 years

SaaS based cloud ERP/CRM solutionsE-commercePaymentsFinanceRiskCompliance+6

Senior Engineering Manager

Sep 2019 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Over 17+ years of IT experience in software development, product development, e-commerce, electronic payment processing, SaaS based cloud ERP/CRM solutions, working in NetSuite, Oracle India Hyderabad.
Highly customer focused and customer centric, driven by business needs always
Very strong leadership skills in setting up the new teams, recruitment, onboarding, training, and driving the projects to the end.
Hands on experience in e-commerce Product Development, SaaS based cloud ERP/CRM solutions, Solution Architecture, coding, code reviews, Agile, Scrum, Project Management, People Management, Business Analysis, Resource Optimization, Infrastructure Setup, Stake Holders Management and Team Management
Hands on experience in the technologies Java, J2EE, Microservices, Web Services, SOA, JavaScript, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL and UNIX.
Very strong in database design, performance optimization and SQL

Software developmentProduct developmentE-commerceElectronic payment processingSaaS based cloud ERP/CRM solutionsAgile+4

Ivy comptech

Senior Software Development Manager

Nov 2003 – Sep 2019 · 15 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Over 15+ years of IT experience in software development, product development, e-commerce and electronic payment processing, working in IVY COMPTECH (GVC, Bwin.Party), Hyderabad.
Heading the group’s payments technology end to end, managing a team size of 35 members.
Managing one of the biggest electronic payment systems in the world for GVC and bwin.party processing 4 billion EUR per annum, extending to 8 billion EUR per annum.
Managing 60 different payment solution integrations across the world, involves communication and co-ordination with all those payment service providers
Highly customer focused and customer centric, driven by business needs always
Hands on experience in e-commerce Product Development, Solution Architecture, coding, code reviews, Agile, Scrum, Project Management, People Management, Business Analysis, Resource Optimization, Infrastructure Setup, Client Relationship Management and Team Management
Hands on experience in the technologies Java, J2EE, Web Services, AWS, SOA, Microservices, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL and UNIX.
Very strong leadership skills in setting up the teams, recruiting, training and driving the projects
Very strong in database design, performance optimization and SQL
Transformed the teams from release model to agile scrum model with bi-weekly sprints