Team: Payment Compliance Platform Team

• Leading internal specification consolidation, unifying fragmented policy and checkpoint specs into a single framework to reduce release overhead, prevent sync bugs, and significantly improve development velocity for solution engineering teams.

• Driving the strategy for System of Record (SOR) modernization across the compliance platform by defining clear boundaries between transaction and journaling systems and creating a migration roadmap from legacy architecture to a scalable long-term design.

• Partnered with senior engineering leadership (Sr. Staff, Architects, and Managers) to define platform goals and quantitative success metrics, translating company objectives into a prioritized roadmap for the Payment Compliance Platform.

• Conducted structured interviews with internal platform customers (solution engineering teams) to identify top developer pain points and prioritize initiatives that improved platform velocity and adoption.

• Worked with engineering leadership to standardize project execution practices, introducing artifacts such as one-pagers, solution design documents, and clear ownership models to ensure alignment on scope, accountability, and technical direction before execution

Team: Crypto Payment Compliance Platform

• Built PayPal’s crypto transfer Compliance platform to address the complexities of pseudonymous blockchain transactions, integrating multiple blockchain analytics providers for user and transaction attribution. This foundation enabled regulatory approval to offer crypto products and powered key consumer-facing features such as Onramp, Offramp, and cross-border remittances, supporting PayPal’s $1.68T+ total payment volume in 2024.

• Led PayPal’s integration into the T.R.U.S.T. consortium—a network of 30+ major crypto asset providers shaping regulatory standards for secure PII exchange. Collaborated with Coinbase, other VASPs, platform teams, and policy stakeholders to translate regulatory requirements into a scalable technical design, enabling protocol-compliant transmission of 50k+ sensitive user data this year for the anonymized blockchain transactions.

• Built and scaled PayPal’s compliance platform to support the recovery and withdrawal of $1.5B+ in crypto assets for 150K+ users impacted by the Celsius bankruptcy—enabling secure fund access, implementing transfer limit controls, and setting a new standard for large-scale crypto asset onboarding and withdrawal.

• Identified a critical inefficiency in manual crypto policy workflows and led a 3-engineer team to propose, design, and build ConfigFlow. This Agentic AI tool automated the conversion of complex decision matrices into Configuration Management Platform-compatible CSVs. The solution eliminated manual errors, reduced policy team effort by 40%, and significantly scaled operational efficiency for managing crypto flows.

• Led KnowCodeCraft, a Generative AI-powered tool aimed at reducing PR merge time by 50% and enabling knowledge transfer for future domain leads; achieved 70% accuracy in classifying GitHub PR comments and leveraged agentic workflows to generate semantic word clouds summarizing code change context and patterns.

• Led a team in the Generative AI IdeaHack, a six-month micro-tournament at PayPal to foster innovative AI concepts. Our idea stood out from 700+ submissions from 900 employees across 35 business sectors.

• Selected among the top 10 ideas, our concept was chosen for its alignment with PayPal's priorities. Additionally, it was one of three ideas within IdeaHack to have a USPTO patent filing (US-20250211549-A1).

• Directed a team of 7 (4 full-time, 3 volunteers) in the rapid prototyping phase. Spearheaded the creation of a Context-Aware Generative AI System, ensuring scalability and potential use as a prototyping framework for similar systems.

• Successfully developed a unique AI system addressing our problem. Positioned as a scalable solution, this system holds promise as a framework for prototyping future Generative AI Systems.

• Engaged in PayPal's 18-week Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) aimed at fostering leadership skills among high-performing employees.

• Participated in self-directed micro-learning, business simulations, and received individual leadership coaching as program components.

• Collaborated within a team during the program, applying strategic thinking and innovative approaches.

• Led the team to surpass updated strategic goals in the business simulations, achieving the highest performance among all cohorts.

Team: Payment Compliance Platform - Craftsmanship and Tools (C&T)

• Built Compliance Data Explorer Tool - Identified a need for a streamlined process in Compliance transactions involving multiple data sources. Developed an adaptable tool to aggregate data, ensuring flexibility for handling changes solely via configuration. Reduced developer time from minutes to seconds, enabling quick issue resolution and significantly enhancing productivity.

• Completed Legacy Migration for Cost-Efficiency: Faced the challenge of migrating applications from legacy to long-term architecture. Developed applications in the long-term architecture, executing a live migration. Reduced operational expenses by hundreds of thousands and slashed future development time by 2/3rd, enhancing efficiency.

• Recognized for Code Quality Improvement - Focused on enhancing the code quality and platform health. Implemented improvements leading to code quality enhancements. Acknowledged with Key Talent Award (KTA) and Spot awards, validating the substantial enhancement in code quality and overall platform health.