Mar 2018 – Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Chennai Area, India

• My Role expanded from what is was doing as a Product Manager to also include owning complete domains including
• Brand Risk Management
• Compliance Investigative Tooling
• I was also working on an enterprise wide product to build a 360 view of a customer across all of PayPal's products include PayPal, Xoom, Venmo which had gone through to the Pilot Phases before i exited PayPal.
• Roles & Responsibilities:
• In additional the roles and responsibilties i had at my previous level, i also performed the following duties
• Training Junior PMs
• Involved with Hiring PMs and Engineering
• Culture Champion for PayPal Chennai Site
• Building Enterprise wide projects

Oct 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Joined PayPal as a Product manager with the Risk and Compliance Team. My first product was to build a comprehensive data aggregation tool that enabled compliance investigators to get a 360 degree view of the cases that they are investigating and enable them to file accurate SARs in a fraction of the time it previously took them.
• The portfolio also expanded into owning other auxillary investigations tools such as a
• 1) Account Tagging - A tool that allows investigators to tag accounts with flags to ensure that the right check and balances are in place and other teams looking at the same account knows when there are compliance limitations placed on the account.
• 2) One Touch Regulatory Filing - Responsible for working closely with the Regulatory Bodies across US, Europe, Australia, UK and Canada to understand their filing requirements and build a full automated data collection, consolidation and filing system for each of these regulators.
• My Day to day involved in:
• Working with Policy and Operations teams to understand the product requirements
• Build Product Solutions and Specifications for the Engineering teams
• Working closely with Program Management and Engineering teams to ensure that the products are built with highest quality
• Support External Audits
• I was also closely involved in the Chennai Site Building activities including
• Being one of the founding members of the Innovation Club
• Ran the Jam Room for Paypal's band "Resonance" and regularly conducted events across the PayPal sites.

Aug 2014 – Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Joined the company as a Sr. Software Engineer, took up product management post 3 months to fill certain gaps. Expanded the role into a full fledged design and product management role. Towards the end of my work here, also took up additional responsibility as an Engineering head.
• Led a team of 1 Product Manager, 1 UI/UX designer, 2 front end engineers and 6 Backend Engineers. The team currently focuses on building scalable systems to solve current problems in Hiring. I am responsible for coming up with Broad Level Product Specifications, System Architecture, Designing and Reviewing UI/UX designs, overseeing development activities and ensuring that the product achieves product market fit.

Nov 2013 – Jul 2014 · 8 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Handled a team of 3 highly motivated software engineers. I was responsible for
• Year on Year goal setting
• Architecture setup
• Project Management
• Drawing up product specifications based on requirements
• Business Reports and Forecasting

Apr 2012 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos · Chennai Area, India

• I handled a team of 8 junior automation engineers along with piloting a dev ops team within the Pricing and Promotions Team of Amazon.com. Responsible for
• Hands-on development activity
• Working closely with other Technology teams to leverage on their systems for Pricing and promotions
• Setting up infrastructure
• Building enterprise crawlers

Jan 2010 – Apr 2012 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Chennai Area, India

• I was responsible for pricing automation for North America and China regions of Amazon. Day to day activities included
• Code base maintenance
• Configuring the automation system to perform new tasks
• Software testing and debugging
• Business Reports and Forecasting

Jun 2009 – Dec 2009 · 6 mos · Chennai Area, India

• As a part of the Operations Team (Pricing and Promotions), It was my responsibility to provide timely and accurate pricing suggestions for Amazon.fr along with data collation and reporting.

Apr 2012 – Feb 2025 · 12 yrs 10 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Guitarist for Carnatic rock act "Agam"
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