Vanchinathan Ayipalayam Chandrasekaran
Senior Software Engineering Manager @ Upstart | Ex - PayPal | Enabling Identity and Access Management / IAM - Consumer Growth
- Role
- Senior Software Engineering Manager - Iam Identity at Upstart
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Vanchinathan Ayipalayam Chandrasekaran
With over 15 years of experience in building reliable and scalable software systems and SDKs, I am a Senior Software Engineering Manager at PayPal, leading the Passwordless Acceleration for PayPal One Identity Platform. My mission is to enable secure and seamless authentication and authorization for millions of users and merchants across the globe.I have strong domain skills in IAM, OAuth 2.0, Micro services, Distributed Systems, and API Design and Development, as well as exposure to Payments and RISK industry. I have hired, developed, and managed full-stack mobile teams across geographies and executed high-impact projects in the Native Mobile and Backend Engineering space. I have a strong engineering background that helps me to have technical ownership of the product and address the customer needs. I love being a people manager that helps me to hire and grow the best talent and form high-performing teams.
Experience
Senior Software Engineering Manager - Iam Identity
Mar 2024 — Present · Austin, TX, US
Leading the Identity Platform and Experiences team responsible for Consumer and Lending Partner Identity across Web and Mobile- Drove MFA adoption 6x (3% → 20%) across web and mobile, enhancing account security for millions of password users by working closely with Design, Product, Application Security, Legal and Compliance teams- Spearheading Upstart’s Passwordless initiative, consolidating onboarding across all platforms to a frictionless user journey- Enabled $50M quarterly incremental revenue by integrating seamless identity flows into marketing conversion funnels- Driving complete revamp of Lending Partner onboarding and login for consistency, cohesion and security.
Education
Anna University Chennai
Bachelors in Engineering, Computer Science
2001 — 2005
Texas Tech University
Masters in Science, Computer Science
2007 — 2008
Skills
- J2ee
- Git
- Lucene
- Fraud Prevention
- Risk Analytics
- Java
- Software Development
- Python
- Testng
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Representational State Transfer (Rest)
- Web Applications
- Subversion
- Mysql
- Sql
- Agile Methodologies
- Hibernate
- Solr
- Rest
- Fraud Detection
- Rxjava
- Ant
- Hudson
- Continuous Integration
- Spring Framework
- Spring
- Maven
- Risk Management
- Web Services
- Junit
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