Platform engineer with 15 years of experience specializing in Payments, Compliance, and Agentic AI — including 5 years at PayPal. 2x PayPal Hackathon Winner.
Experience
2021 — Now
2021 — Now
San Jose, California, United States
AGENTIC COMMERCE — IC (Sep 2025 – Present)
Contributing to PayPal's Agentic Commerce SDK powered by LLM and MCP tool orchestration — enabling conversational checkout: product discovery, cart creation, financial instrument updates, and shipping management.
Implemented streaming iframe for real-time LLM response rendering
Built client token authentication for secure merchant SDK integration
PLATFORM LEAD (Apr 2023 – Sep 2025)
JDK 17 Upgrade: GC overhead 6x drop, 95% pause reduction, 50% outbound latency improvement, 10% CPU improvement
Reactive I/O Migration (DLL, CSPS): 30% latency reduction, 50% throughput improvement
Harness CI/CD: 50% build time savings (120 to 60 mins); standards adopted by Solutions, Sanctions and multiple teams
Datadog Observability (Hackathon Winner): 60% MTTD improvement, 30% MTTR improvement
Wiremock Adoption: 60% FT effort savings, faster PR cycles
Dataloader Migration (20-25 services): 20% developer efficiency gain
CPDS-CPS Service Deprecation: $100K+ annual cost savings
OTEL Adoption across 6+ compliance services: 100% alert coverage
Contributed to Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for platform modernization
PROJECT / TECH LEAD (Sep 2021 – Apr 2023)
Crypto enablement across US, UK and Luxembourg — Convert, Buy/Sell/Hold, Rewards
Led Crypto UK expansion, Venmo US Crypto, Venmo Charity, Zettle Tap to Pay
Contributed to PayPal Thailand market expansion
2x PayPal Hackathon Winner
2x SPOT Award — Crypto compliance and monitoring improvements (2022)
2018 — 2021
2018 — 2021
San Jose, California, United States
Sr. Software Engineer | Client: PayPal | San Jose, CA | May 2020 – Sep 2021
IC contributor on Crypto US Enablement at PayPal.
Implemented Crypto compliance policy checks across Planning, Fulfilment and Post-Process phases (Spring Boot, Kafka, MayFly DB)
Modified Fulfilment modules for Sanctions and VD checks on Crypto Buy and Sell transactions
Built CAL/Hadoop monitoring and Kibana indexing for PCE and CCO compliance logging
Developed Python automation scripts for Apache PIG/CPOL SLA throttle execution
Managed full deployment lifecycle: dev, QA, model, production (ALTUS, Genesis)
Java Technical Lead | Client: YDesign Group | Walnut Creek, CA | Jan 2018 – Apr 2020
Designed and developed product recommendation modules (YLighting, YLiving) using Spring Boot
Re-architected inventory system migrating backend from C# to MSSQL
Built batch automation for bulk product publishing to NetSuite and Demandware
Led QA coordination and UAT across business and engineering stakeholders
2014 — 2018
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Aug 2015 – Jan 2018 | United States | Full-time
Senior Java Developer | Client: Florida Blue (BCBS) | Jacksonville, FL | Aug 2015 – Jan 2018
Designed compliance modules (PSP, PEP, Rate Validation) using Spring and React/Redux
Built data visualization components using Chart.js and D3.js
Configured SOAP web services and Dell Boomi integrations for claims processing workflows
Java Developer | Client: AIG General Insurance | Parsippany, NJ | Jun 2014 – Aug 2015
Built enterprise eligibility and policy management systems using Java/J2EE, Spring, Hibernate
Developed REST and SOAP web services applying DAO, Singleton, and Factory design patterns
2010 — 2014
2010 — 2014
Mumbai | Chennai
Java Developer | Client: Cummins Inc. | Chennai, India | May 2012 – Jun 2014
Developed applications using Struts2, Spring, Oracle, and MyBatis
Designed and implemented user interfaces using JSP, HTML, and CSS
Junior Java Developer | Client: Chrysler Group Inc. | Mumbai, India | Mar 2010 – May 2012
Developed GUI components and application enhancements for automotive systems
Conducted unit and system testing; deployed EAR files across dev and test servers
Education
Anna University Chennai
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering
2005 — 2009