● Provided strategic technical leadership across multiple teams within the compliance and payments platform, aligning architecture with long-term business, regulatory, and customer needs.

● Architected and guided the development of scalable, high-availability distributed systems supporting complex compliance workflows and partner integrations under strict SLA requirements.

● Designed, developed, and evolved REST APIs consumed by internal and external partners, emphasizing security, performance, backward compatibility, and developer usability.

● Directed architectural design reviews, evaluating solutions with a focus on customer experience, transaction throughput (TPV), authorization optimization, and platform resilience.

● Spearheaded the checkout re-platform initiative, establishing the next-generation compliance platform with improved SLA adherence, optimized data access patterns, and enhanced authorization success rates.

● Resolved high-impact production incidents by leading live issue triage, root-cause analysis, and long-term corrective design improvements.

● Strengthened engineering quality through rigorous code and design reviews, ensuring correctness, maintainability, performance, and security across critical services.

● Trained and mentored engineers through domain-focused technical sessions, increasing platform understanding, onboarding efficiency, and team productivity.

● Led tokenization initiatives by designing and implementing scalable, high-performance solutions for Google Pay, Samsung Pay, and physical card tokenization programs.

● Analyzed Mastercard ISO data and developed processing pipelines to support tokenization risk models and secure transaction evaluation.

● Designed and delivered partner integrations for large external platforms including Uber, Chick-fil-A, and marketplace partners, ensuring secure and reliable payment flows.

● Established the Venmo and Xoom integration with the PayPal Risk platform by designing and implementing an external Risk-as-a-Service API.

● Maintained domain quality and reliability by conducting thorough reviews of risk-critical services, validating correctness, performance, and security compliance.

● Served as a domain expert and technical lead for fraud-mitigation and risk platforms, delivering architectural guidance and hands-on solutions aligned with evolving business requirements.

● Designed and implemented scalable, resilient systems that balanced fraud prevention, customer experience, and operational continuity.

● Collaborated with product, risk, and operations teams to clarify requirements and translate complex risk scenarios into production-ready technical designs.

● Established and enforced quality standards across risk-critical services through structured design and code reviews focused on reliability, performance, and maintainability.

Served as a technical lead for post-payment services, providing design leadership and technical guidance across multiple projects within the payments platform.

I worked in the areas related to PayPal's self service system and customer service related tools. My duty was being a team lead in the project

Interested in financial domain.