I build developer platforms and infrastructure products that operate at the intersection of scale, trust, and commerce. At PayPal, I lead the merchant integration platform — a PM org of 12 spanning PPCP and Braintree mobile, web, and server SDKs, GraphQL APIs, and core payment APIs (Orders, Vault, Payments).
Experience
2024 — Now
San Francisco Bay Area
Leading product strategy across PayPal's full merchant integration stack: PPCP & Braintree mobile (iOS/Android), web, server SDKs, Braintree GraphQL API, and PPCP APIs — including AI-powered payment recommendations and AI-assisted developer tooling.
▸ PayPal JS SDK v6: Delivered complete platform rebuild achieving 83% performance improvement (3+ sec → 0.5 sec load time). Enterprise partners saw doubled click-through rates and tripled conversions post-migration. Accelerating adoption via Merchant AI Assistant — guiding developers from legacy integrations to v6, cutting time-to-migration and support burden at scale.
▸ Checkout Feature Delivery: First platform to deliver 100% of packages to GA on/ahead of schedule, with large enterprise merchants actively live. Supporting multiple commerce partners with 2B+ API calls at 100% availability; protected significant at-risk payment volume across multiple verticals.
▸ SDK Code Generation Engine: Built on Braintree GraphQL API as canonical source — auto-generating server SDKs in 6 languages, docs portal, tests, and MCP integrations from a single schema. Eliminates SDK drift and accelerates release velocity.
▸ Payment Actions: Flexible multi-step transaction lifecycle framework enabling EU regulatory compliance (PSD2/SCA), ACH, and new payment methods including PYUSD — closing a structural gap vs. market alternatives.
▸ Embedded Components: Initiated PayPal's unified checkout suite — a single integration replacing 3 fragmented PayPal products across PPCP, Braintree, web, iOS, and Android. Features AI-powered Autopilot: uses PayPal's two-sided network data to identify buyers early and surface the highest-converting payment method per transaction. Dashboard-driven; merchants activate new capabilities without writing a line of client code.
▸ Team: Led the product org (12) including sr managers overseeing multiple product lines across PPCP & Braintree — mobile, web, server SDKs, GraphQL, Orders, Vault & Payments APIs.
2023 — 2024
2023 — 2024
San Francisco Bay Area
Led Stripe's enterprise upmarket strategy through integrations and the partner ecosystem. Owned product vision for native Stripe integrations across the world's leading commerce, CRM, and ERP platforms — including Adobe Commerce (Magento), Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Salesforce CRM, WooCommerce, Shopify, NetSuite, SAP, and more.
▸ App Marketplace Strategy: Migrated integrations to Stripe Apps and launched them on the Stripe App Marketplace — creating a scalable, discoverable distribution channel for enterprise merchants and shifting integrations from one-off builds to a maintained ecosystem.
▸ Stripe Tax Expansion: Extended Stripe Tax to key enterprise commerce platforms including Adobe Commerce, enabling automated global tax compliance for large merchant bases with zero custom tax infrastructure.
▸ Boomi Partnership: Created strategic partnership connecting Stripe's payments, ecommerce, and tax capabilities into enterprise data orchestration workflows — expanding Stripe's addressable footprint into the iPaaS and ERP connectivity market.
▸ Enterprise GTM: Partnered with sales and go-to-market to define how Stripe wins in the enterprise space — authored strategy papers on partner-led enterprise acquisition and built engagement dashboards tracking integration adoption, active merchant cohorts, and partner-driven revenue across the ecosystem.
▸ Team & Execution: Led a team of PMs across integration product lines with full cross-functional ownership from partner scoping through GTM launch.
2020 — 2023
2020 — 2023
United States
Led product strategy for Google Identity — the authentication and authorization platform serving billions of consumer users and hundreds of thousands of third-party developers across Google's entire product ecosystem. Owned the 10-year vision for Identity's evolution as part of the core platform leadership team.
▸ Drove consolidation of 65+ siloed Identity products across Google's largest product areas into a unified platform strategy — a multi-year, cross-PA program requiring alignment and influence across the full organization without direct authority.
▸ Delivered Passkeys to the Android SDK — Google's biometrics-based, passwordless authentication standard protecting billions of accounts and advancing industry-wide adoption of phishing-resistant authentication.
▸ Grew users storing 10+ passwords by 15% YoY through Unified Password Manager with on-device encryption across web, Android, and Chrome — balancing consumer utility with enterprise-grade security at scale.
▸ Reduced OAuth authorization abandonment by 20% by redesigning the consent and authorization flow — directly improving developer conversion and increasing third-party OAuth adoption across the partner ecosystem.
▸ Built and scaled a distributed PM team of 7 across Google Identity's consumer, developer, and internal platform product lines.
▸ Designed RISC — a scalable, standards-based infrastructure for real-time security signal sharing with identity providers across the web.
▸ Launched incremental authorization enabling developers to achieve GDPR compliance — reducing permission scope creep and improving consumer trust in third-party OAuth applications.
2017 — 2020
2017 — 2020
San Francisco Bay Area
Led product strategy for MuleSoft's developer tooling portfolio — Flow Designer, Studio, APIKit, and MUnit — as part of the initiative to expand Anypoint Platform's addressable market from integration specialists to citizen developers. Delivered net-new products and extended platform capabilities to support a new set of low-code use cases.
2011 — 2017
2011 — 2017
San Francsico
Led product strategy and roadmap for Socialcast, VMware's enterprise social collaboration platform. Shipped a developer Bot/AI platform with APIs across Retail, HR, IT, and Healthcare verticals; built and launched a 20+ integration ecosystem (JIRA, Jenkins, GitHub, PagerDuty, and more); and delivered native desktop and mobile clients. Managed cross-functional team of 6 across design, engineering, and QA.
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Science (BS)
1999 — 2002
University of San Francisco
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
2012 — 2014
leland
High school diploma
1994 — 1998