Sachin Girdhar — CTO

✔ Engineering Leader with 13+ years experience, 7+ years management experience and a strong track record of building high performing engineering organization (tech staff over 140+ across multiple geographies). Extensive experience designing and building high throughput, distributed systems serving millions of transactions at low latency. ✔ Scaled the Amazon Consumer Payments, Credit Cards organization from 15 to 100 in 2 years spanning multiple teams across Seattle, Arlington and Bangalore ✔ Owned and delivered over 20+ services supporting multiple Amazon-wide businesses such as Amazon Consumer Payments, Business Payments, EU, India, Japan and Emerging Markets. ✔ Delivered 4 S-Team initiatives including a flagship goal to launch the US CBCC program ✔ Maintained 0 attrition for 3 years straight 2019 to 2021 (while keeping high manager and job satisfaction scores) ✔ 5+ years experience with program/portfolio management, project planning/scheduling, planning technology road maps and building and retaining highly functional engineering teams. ► Notable deliveries ✔ Launched Amazon Prime Credit Card in US (Amazon Flagship goal) ✔ Launched Amazon Prime Credit Card across 6 geographies in 3 years - US, UK, CA, DE, JP and IN (S-Team goal) ✔ Launched Physical Stores Integration for Amazon Credit Cards (S-Team goal) ✔ Launched 0% APR BNPL Installments for Amazon Credit Cards WW (S-Team goal) ✔ Launched 5% to 20% Stackable Rewards sponsored by sellers for Amazon Credit Cards ✔ Launched Fraud Detection and Prevention Service for Amazon Credit Cards reducing fraud to lowest 0.1% in 5 years.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with extensive experience in payment systems and team leadership.

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States

Experience: 13 yrs 6 mos

Skills

Team Management
Cloud Infrastructure
New Product Rollout
Credit Card Fraud Prevention
Distributed Systems
Data Infrastructure

Career Highlights

Scaled Amazon Payments team from 15 to 100 in 2 years.
Delivered 20+ services for Amazon-wide businesses.
Maintained 0 attrition for 3 years with high satisfaction scores.

Work Experience

Amazon

Head of Engineering, Amazon Payment Products (5 yrs 2 mos)

Software Development Manager, Consumer Payments (3 yrs)

Senior SDE, Consumer Payments (1 yr 11 mos)

SDE II, Consumer Payments (11 mos)

SDE I, Fulfillment Technologies (1 yr 11 mos)

D. E. Shaw India Software Private Limited

Member Technical (9 mos)

University of Houston

Research Scholar (2 mos)

Louisiana State University

Research Scholar (1 mo)

Education

B.Tech at Indian Institute of Technology, Patna

High School at D.A.V Public School Rohtak

Sachin Girdhar

CTO

Seattle, Washington, United States13 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Scaled Amazon Payments team from 15 to 100 in 2 years.
Delivered 20+ services for Amazon-wide businesses.
Maintained 0 attrition for 3 years with high satisfaction scores.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with extensive experience in payment systems and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Team ManagementCloud InfrastructureNew Product RolloutCredit Card Fraud PreventionDistributed SystemsData Infrastructure

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)CC++Computer ScienceData StructuresDatabasesJUnitJavaJavaScriptLinuxMicrosoft OfficeMockitoMulti-site

About

Experience

13 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

12 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Amazon

5 roles

Head of Engineering, Amazon Payment Products

Promoted

Apr 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

I lead Amazon Payment Products WW organization of 140+ tech staff (SDMs, TPMs, SDEs, FEEs, SDETs, SEs and QAs) distributed across Seattle, Arlington and Bangalore. We are responsible for launching and managing new and innovative payment methods to customers such as Amazon Cobranded and Private Label Credit Cards and Debit cards, Daily Rewards, Shop with Points, and Buy Now Pay Late (BNPL) Installments.

Data InfrastructureStrategic PlanningNew Product RolloutCredit Card Fraud PreventionDistributed SystemsMulti-site+2

Software Development Manager, Consumer Payments

Promoted

Jun 2018 – Jun 2021 · 3 yrs

Sachin joined the Amazon Payment Products team as the SDM and technical single-threaded leader for the Amazon Credit Cards team, which at the time had 5 people. He led the team for 3 years, growing the team to 51, including 6 managers. Sachin delivered multiple key projects for Amazon's Credit Card business, including Financing, Buy Now Pay Later, Merchant Offers, Unified Financing Experience across the Amazon website, Physical Stores, Prequalifications, Fraud Reduction, among many others.

Data InfrastructureNew Product RolloutCredit Card Fraud PreventionDistributed SystemsCloud InfrastructureTeam Management

Senior SDE, Consumer Payments

Promoted

Jul 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

Delivered tools and frameworks to help consumer payments businesses deliver financial offers such as cashback and installments to market faster.
Delivered platform to enable prime differentiated credit card product launch for 20 MM customers in 6 geographies.
Delivered prime card bonus (PCB) platform for vendors to launch 10-20% cashback offers for prime credit card customers.

Data InfrastructureNew Product RolloutDistributed SystemsCloud Infrastructure

SDE II, Consumer Payments

Promoted

Jul 2015 – Jun 2016 · 11 mos

Created credit card application framework for mobile web and amazon app platforms.
Migrating credit card applications from legacy framework to the SimpleStack website framework.

Data InfrastructureNew Product RolloutDistributed SystemsCloud Infrastructure

SDE I, Fulfillment Technologies

Jul 2013 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

Building an authoritative trade authority service to surface import and export ability and costs.
Building a trade portal website to surface import costs for any customs entry for business audit.
Building a workflow to normalize and store customs entry feeds from different brokers.
Building a tool to handle any misplaced item in a Fulfillment Center (FC).
Designed and implemented new algorithm that optimized the walk time of associates in processing of misplaced items in the warehouse.

Data InfrastructureNew Product RolloutDistributed Systems

D. e. shaw india software private limited

Member Technical

Sep 2012 – Jun 2013 · 9 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Worked here as MT in Qualitative Team under Front Office division to improve quality of the core trading engine of Front Office.
Building automation frameworks (in Marathon and Perl) in Java, C++ and Perl for testing of MarketMaker (trader's tool) and JshProxy (tool's proxy server) every release cycle.

University of houston

Research Scholar

May 2011 – Jul 2011 · 2 mos · Houston, Texas

Contributed in projects on Smart Environment Computing and Cyber Identity Detection and Management
Detecting Fake/duplicate accounts in online social networking sites like Facebook
Designing an automated approach to label objects in previously captured research videos.
Worked with some great people - Dr. Larry Shi, Dr. Junsong Yuan, Dr. Yoshida Honaku, Dr. Junzhou Huang, Dr. Bogdan Carbunar and Dainis Boumber

Louisiana state university

Research Scholar

Jun 2010 – Jul 2010 · 1 mo · Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

Tracking multiple targets in a cluttered environment.
Implementation of REID's algorithm for tracking multiple targets in Java to perform Bayesian Kriging on the model.
Worked with great people - Prof S. Kundu and Dr. Supratik Mukhopadhyay