Sep 2022 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Apr 2022 – Sep 2022 · 5 mos · Los Gatos, California, United States

• Ecosystem Engineering Platform.

Jun 2017 – Apr 2022 · 4 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco, California

• TL for Advertiser Billing, Native Checkout and Creator Payouts.
• As the TL, I lead large cross functional projects through ideation, architecture and implementation phases. I work closely with product and business development teams to come up with long term strategies on projects as well.
• Key contributor and leader in the the Native Checkout project which allows pinners to checkout products on the Pinterest app.
• Leading the creation of a platform to enable payouts to creators on Pinterest.
• Wrote the bill charging logic for credit card billing.
• Rewrote credit card billing stack to be payment gateway agnostic.
• Architected and implemented integrations with Adyen for payments and Sift for fraud detection.
• Implemented real time order line budget enforcement for invoiced advertisers who account for the largest fraction of Pinterest revenue.

Jan 2016 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Google Payments Platform
• Building payments.google.com frontend and the APIs backing it.

Jul 2009 – Dec 2015 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Redmond, Washington

• Microsoft Data Platform Engineering System
• Worked as a full stack engineer in a team that developed an ElasticSearch based log searching service.
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• Microsoft Account
• Two Factor Authentication, Protection Against Login From Unfamiliar Locations, Proofs(Email, SMS, Time Based Onetime Password, etc), Account Security Notifications, Onetime Tokens, Compromise Recovery, Enforcement of COPPA for Kids' Accounts, etc.

Aug 2007 – May 2009 · 1 yr 9 mos · Arlington TX

• Worked on the Doctoral Progress Review Project. It provides a platform for submission and evaluation of doctoral work and communication between students and advisors. Used PHP and MySQL.
• Lead development using PHP and MySQL of the website for Office of Graduate Studies at UT Arlington – http://grad.uta.edu

Jul 2006 – Jun 2007 · 11 mos · Bangalore

• Support for the 3DSecure System for storage and transmission of critical Credit Card information for the functioning of VBV(Verified by Visa) for ANZ customers.
• Maintenance of Management Information Systems for ESANDA Lending Systems, ANZ. The responsibilities involved extraction, transformation and loading of data into massive database repositories and analysis of patterns.
• Developed Credit Recoveries and Commercial Cards automation websites for ANZ.