Responsible for global billing, merchant, and payments platforms at Blackhawk Network, leading cross-regional teams across the U.S., India, and APAC to drive platform standardization, scalability, and innovation. Partnering with product and business leaders to enable growth through merchant integrations, unified infrastructure, and global delivery excellence.
• Led global engineering org of 100+ engineers and leaders, scaling across products and platforms.
• Spearheaded global rollout of Visa private-label card platform, generating $571M new transaction volume.
• Scaled centralized payments & issuance platform to 26K+ partner brands - enabled branded digital/physical gift solutions - processed $2B+ TPV per month
• Unified billing & payments platform delivering $30M+ annual revenue through platform standardization.
• Drove launch of a SaaS platform that automated merchant onboarding, cutting activation time from weeks to minutes for 250K+ stores.
• Led Kubernetes migration for core platform services. Reduced infrastructure spend 20%, increased deployment frequency from monthly to weekly.