Experience
2022 — Now
Leads a specialized Risk Engineering division of 40+ engineers at Coinbase, architecting high-throughput, low-latency, ML-driven fraud detection systems that protect billions in daily assets across a 24/7 global crypto environment.
Drives real-time and asynchronous risk decisioning across trading, onboarding, payments, identity, and fund-movement flows, balancing strong fraud prevention with trusted customer experience.
Platform & Architecture Leadership: Spearheaded the evolution from fragmented, ad-hoc solutions to a unified Risk-as-a-Service platform, enabling seamless integration for internal product teams and external clients, while unlocking new revenue opportunities.
Defense at Scale: Architected a resilient, low-latency control plane to detect and mitigate large-scale threats in real time (with ML-powered risk models), including account takeover (ATO), identity fraud, scams, and transaction/fund-movement abuse.
Global AML Compliance & Travel Rule: Led engineering of a Travel Rule compliance platform now adopted by 100+ Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs), enabling compliant cross-border asset transfers across complex international AML jurisdictions.
Champions an AI-first engineering culture by leveraging tools like Cursor, Claude, and custom agentic workflows to accelerate development, drive automation, and improve fraud detection and investigation velocity across the organization.
2020 — 2022
2020 — 2022
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Head of software development organization for Best Buy Canada. Led engineering organization of 160+ team members to deliver innovative software products that drive online and store retail business flywheel. Established a scalable organizational structure that has strong ownership and accountability to deliver products in a high-paced environment. Developed efficient software development processes and software development teams that delivered high-quality software with excellence and velocity.
2016 — 2020
2016 — 2020
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Engineering leader responsible for implementing a highly scalable and resilient architecture for launching new payment methods across whole Europe. Delivered many first-timers architecture and integrations for Amazon to accelerate the adoption of new payment methods and processors. Led teams responsible for different launches, seeking efficiencies across architecture to accelerate development, developing roadmap with product manager and bring alignment across organizations to increase footprint of Amazon across Europe.
2015 — 2016
Engineering leader responsible for development of architecture for consumer and fulfillment systems including Order Management System, Inventory System, Fulfillment System, and Marketplace integration. Delivered pioneering business initiatives including Ship-to/from-Store, and highly scalable architecture for handling Inventory services for online Best Buy website.
2011 — 2015
Burnaby, BC
Managed the talented team of Software Engineers and design and delivery of Order Management System (OMS) and Enterprise services.
Education
The University of British Columbia
Masters of Software Systems
2004 — 2005
Punjab Engineering College
B. E.
1996 — 2000