Aveer Thakur
Distinguished Engineer / Architect at PayPal
- Role
- Distinguished Software Engineer at PayPal
- Location
- San Jose, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Aveer Thakur
Technical leader with rich experience in architecting and building large-scale cloud-based SaaS products and platforms used by millions of customers across the globe.My recent experiences include- Drove transformation for QuickBooks Online from a large monolithic system to a distributed event-driven services architecture of 20+ capabilities that are loosely-coupled and interact through events and API contracts. Capabilities were modernized from ground-up. Accelerated the journey by building reusable patterns across the tech stack and all along the development lifecycle. Lead a mission team of 300+ engineers in this journey across 4 timezones- Architecting and building the Accounting platform that powers QuickBooks Online, which is built for \"automation\" and is part of Intuit\'s AI-driven platform- Defining the API strategy for the ecosystem and driving execution- Experienced in decomposing a large monolith into a scalable, distributed architecture that unlocked organizational velocity. Modernized the tech stack along the way for high productivity- Cloud-native, Graphql/REST/gRPC APIs, Kafka-based event-driven-architecture- Applied and taught domain-driven-design principles to several teams in the organization that helped achieve the right level of modularization and interaction between the components in the distributed system- My domain expertise is in Fintech - Accounting, Personal Finance - with a speciality in building solutions that scales to millions of consumers across the globe- I enjoy coaching, mentoring and building high performance teams and culture.Specialities:Microservices, API strategy, Domain-driven-design Cloud, Architecting large scale platforms, Graphql, REST API, Java, Node.js, Event-based asynchronous architecture, Full-stack experience.
Experience
Distinguished Software Engineer
Sep 2025 — Present · San Jose, CA, US
Distinguished Software Engineer, Enterprise Architecture at PayPal
Education
National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science
1998 — 2002
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