Nagendra Prasad K S

Vice President of Engineering @American Express

I lead the Merchant Payments and Technologies team in a mirrored way at Bangalore. This team is undergoing a huge transformation from the payments and other key functions landscape. When I started in January 2020, this team was around 3 engineers and a leader and today we were able to scale this team to at least 20+ colleagues and 4 Engineering leaders. There is a huge opportunity to contribute to the cause of modernisation and after the initial hiccups we were able to step up the gas and are making meaningful and impactful contributions to the WW Merchant technologies of Amex. In 2021, I had the chance to helm and lead the Merchant Data platforms which include huge Merchant data platforms with state of art BI engines and ML models working on petabytes of data from various SORs and ensuring that the Merchant business, product and marketing teams are having insights at their finger tips to make meaningful choices and decisions to pave way for better adoption, cross sell and maximising the potential stand point. I also work closely on the WW Merchant SRE and Dev ops and with a series of innovative ideas was able to drive world class testing frameworks and methodologies and today these suite of products are providing the value add across the board pan the enterprise. Being part of the local India forums and council and leading work-streams related to Learning and Development and also wider colleague experience work streams is making sure that I do contribute to the initiative of the Market.