Jagathi Gade
Eng leadership [Block, Robinhood, Capital One] | Fin Tech | Trust & Safety| Payments | Chief Member | Advisor | Investor
- Role
- Head of Engineering, Payments & Risk Embedded Finance at Lightspeed Commerce
- Location
- Washington, DC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jagathi Gade
Technology and people leader who builds and scales mission-critical platforms with precision, purpose, and a strong sense of urgency. I’ve led large, globally distributed engineering organizations at Square, Robinhood, Capital One, and Lightspeed, owning systems across payments, money movement, and high-stakes trust and safety domains at significant scale.I’ve also taken products from inception, including driving a 0→1 platform innovation at Blackboard, replacing bespoke LMS implementations with a cloud-scaled, API-first content marketplace.I drive growth by bringing structure to complexity, aligning engineering, data, and AI/ML to deliver resilient platforms, internal tooling, and operating models that strengthen trust, improve customer experience, and meet the demands of regulated and high complexity environments. My leadership style combines high standards and accountability with empathy, clarity, and deep investment in people and culture. I partner closely with product, data, risk, and executive leadership to translate strategy into durable business outcomes.In addition to my operating roles, I advise VC-backed companies through Foundation Capital and engage with senior leaders via Chief.
Experience
Head of Engineering, Payments & Risk Embedded Finance
Jul 2025 — Present
Building easy to use payment rails, integrating with Stripe and Adyen, embedded into Lightspeed POS products across multiple verticals like Retail, Restaurants, Hospitality and e-commerce platforms. Enabling the merchants with best in class and highly reliable capabilities of money movement services like Instant Payouts (IP) and Same day payouts through AI centric automation tools. Last but not least, the Risk Management of chargebacks, dispute management, Auth rates (Card present and Cards on file) and Risk ops support.
Education
Cornell University
Certificate program, Executive Leadership
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
MS, Electrical Engineering
Nagarjuna University
Btech, Electrical and electronics engineering
Skills
- Websphere
- Struts
- Java
- Single Page Applications
- Software Development
- Restful Architecture
- Statements of Work (Sow)
- Volunteering
- J2ee
- Software Solution Architecture
- IT Consulting
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Enterprise Architecture
- Ooad
- N-Tier
- Agile Methodologies
- Mongodb
- Apache Kafka
- Web Services
- Project Management
- Technical Leadership
- Soa
- Saas
- Backbone.js
- Sdlc
- Feasibility Studies
- Application Architecture
- Large Scale System Integration
- Oauth
- Spring
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