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)

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

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

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