As the engineering head of consumer payments (aka "Meta Pay") experiences pillar, I support engineering teams working on checkout and payment experiences on offsite advertiser surfaces and Meta's messaging apps (WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram direct) across the globe, with a focus on increasing ad-click/checkout conversion rate for the advertisers and providing more streamlined payment experiences for the consumers. In addition, our products help serve more relevant ads for the consumers.

I lead multiple full-stack teams to efficiently build and test multiple innovative 0->1 products to test product-market fit and then scale them to generate 100s of millions dollars of incremental revenue for Meta.

Prior to this (2019-2021), I led team owning the backend payment processing infrastructure for Calibra/Novi's cryptocurrency wallet (Novi), which was critical part of Calibra/Novi's 0->1 build and pilot launch in 2021.

• Led e-commerce product management and engineering teams that owned web and mobile products for customers purchasing Ancestry subscriptions and DNA kits; responsible for product strategy, roadmap and entire technology stack including checkout experience (web and mobile) and backend systems (order processing, catalog, pricing, payment processing, subscription management).

• Led teams to

• deliver multiple core capabilities such as shopping cart, improved fraud prevention, bundle discounts, gifting, on-demand content purchase, entitlements, Apple Pay, guest checkout.

• successfully migrate of 40+ business-critical applications to AWS cloud (from on-prem data center).

• achieve 40% reduction in cloud spending (from $2M in 2017 to $1.2M in 2018) post migration through right-sizing and architecture improvements.

• improve scalability and resiliency in eCommerce stack to handle 10X surge in purchase traffic during peak Holiday shopping.

[June 2016 – Aug 2017] Led engineering org that owned PayPal’s core transaction engine handling 15 million payments per day, maintaining high availability and low latency.

Kicked off build of the next generation of the transaction engine to improve quality and time-to-market, as well as handling more throughput.

Led significant cultural change and talent upgrade in the team resulting in meaningful increase in team velocity.

[2014 – June 2016] Led team to deliver RESTful web-services platform for internal and external developers to access PayPal’s core payment capabilities. Built the platform 0->1 and grew it to process more than 70% of PayPal’s total payment volume within a couple of years.

[2013] Led technical design and execution of the first phase of multi-year payments system re-architecture project across multiple cross-functional teams, including migration of US credit card processing product (>60% of total payment volume) on the new stack.

[2012] Led checkout conversion optimization team that exceeded organization goal for conversion lift, contributing ~1% of iRev.

[2009-2011] Led teams to build web services for merchant onboarding and account servicing business logic, handing regional regulatory complexity.

• Tech lead for various pillars of PayPal's Merchant Technology team including the core checkout product, onboarding.

• Designed and developed micro-services framework for PayPal merchant business.

• Founding member of API governance committee for defining and maintaining standards for PayPal’s developer APIs.