PayPal

Engineering Leadership - Payment Risk Platforms

Managing two high-performing Risk Platform Engineering teams - Tokenization and Marketplaces.
- Enabling In-Store and Online open loop e-commerce  - $24B+ Annual TPV
- Leading PayPal Commerce Platform to enable Partners and Marketplaces to manage payments securely
- Proactively thwarting new fraud attacks while providing delightful experiences to millions of users
- Onboarding/re-issuance/authentication/authorization of all PayPal and Venmo Debit Card products. 
- Token provisioning of PayPal/Venmo Debit Cards in Digital wallets like Apple/Google Pay.
- Tokenizing PayPal wallet for seamless integration with growing merchants

Platform team highlights
- Successfully led the modernization of a Risk Platform that serves >70M payments/day
- Total Payment Volume is $700B/year, growing year over year
- 10B transactions/year
- 50% reduction in cost of ownership
- Reduced 6B network calls per year
- Built a modern test automation framework used by >200 Engineers

Strategy and Execution
- Cross-functional collaboration across multiple product teams on strategic product launches
- Actively work with the Infrastructure team to improve developer productivity
- Constantly engaged in improving Platform capabilities

People
- Regularly work on coaching, developing, and promoting engineering talent within the team
- Coach and mentor Engineers/Product Managers outside of the organization

Software Engineering Manager

I had the opportunity and privilege to work with most of the stack at PayPal. If you have ever used PayPal, chances are that you have touched my code.
 
Tech Lead
 - Risk Platform (Jan 2019 - Feb 2020)
 - Core Payments (Jan 2015- Dec 2018) 
 - Mobile Orchestration API (Jan 2014-Dec 2014)
 - Store Locator API (Dec 2012 - Jan 2014)


Work on many open source projects and hang out on StackOverflow during weekends
StackOverflow- https://stackoverflow.com/users/503804/nilesh
Github - https://github.com/nikulkarni/

MTS 1, Software Engineer (Tech Lead)

Senior Software Engineer

Epsilon

-Managed a team of 10 engineers, responsible for developing a suite of digital solutions products for the Next Generation email marketing platform
-Hired, trained, and mentored 30+ software engineers in Boston, Arlington, and Toronto
-Promoted Behavior Driven Development using Cucumber
-Developed integration pipelines for continuous delivery

Manager of Application Development

Software Engineer

Clarkson University

Research included Design and Development of Algorithms in Image Processing and Digital Signal Processing

* Recipient of Research based Scholarship 

Thesis Title: 
* Impact of Fingerprint Image Quality on Performance of a matcher
* Study of Interoperability in Fingerprint Scanners

Research Assistant

Technology leader with extensive experience in building scalable and performant applications.
 
Open source Enthusiast. 

Specialties:
Languages: Java, jQuery/JavaScript, Node.js, HTML, Perl
Tools and Frameworks: Selenium/WebDriver, JUnit/TestNG, Cucumber, Spring, Jackson
Mocking frameworks: Mockito, WireMock
Dependency Injection: Spring, Guice
Automation: UI (Web or Desktop Applications), Localized UI, web services (REST and SOAP) and Databases
Version Control: Git, CVS, Subversion (SVN)
Bug Tracking: Jira, Rally, IBM Clear Quest (CQ), Quality Center
Database: MongoDB, MS-SQL, MS-Access	
OS: Linux, Solaris, UNIX and Windows
Methodologies: Test Driven Development (TDD), Agile, Six Sigma Advocate

Stackoverflow Profile: http://stackoverflow.com/users/503804/nilesh

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