Amit Athavale

About Amit Athavale

As the Sr. Director of Payments Platform Engineering at PayPal, I lead the teams that manage the core backbone of the company\'s payment processing platforms. With 20+ years of experience in building distributed and large-scale software systems, I have the skills and knowledge to deliver high-quality, scalable, and mission-critical solutions that meet the needs of our customers, partners, and regulators. My core competencies include managing functional and effective teams, driving technology transformations, aligning expectations with various key stakeholders, and building ground-up systems. In my career, I have been a critical part of the team that conceptualized, designed, built, and re-platformed two iterations of the Payments platform from a single app monolith to an agile, highly available, and performant system. I am passionate about improving the data quality, security, and reliability of our platform, as well as migrating to AWS cloud and adopting agile development practices.

Experience

1. Sr Director, Payments Platform Engineering

   PayPal

   Jul 2021 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

   Leading Instrument Processing Platform and Payments Backend Data Platform teams. Instrument Processing Platform is core backbone of PayPal which processes payments on all financial instruments including Cards, Banks, Balances and Alternate payment methods. This platform handles authentication, authorization, clearing/settlement and interchange cost calculations. Backend data platform manages Payments Ledger.

Education

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  MCS

  1995 — 2000

Skills

• Perl
• Software Engineering
• Databases
• Web Services
• C++
• Unix
• Git
• Enterprise Software
• Scalability
• Oracle
• Rest
• Software Development
• Soa
• Distributed Systems
• Technical Leadership
• Agile Methodologies
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Linux