Vinit Agarwal

About Vinit Agarwal

A hands on leader with experience in designing and delivering highly available, scalable, distributed, and efficient platforms to process large payments volume. Expertise: Leading large and complex initiatives (Crypto Currency Trading, Pay with Crypto / Rewards, Payment processing using Physical and Virtual PAN, Instant Transfers, Financial Reconciliation), Team Leader, Payments, Software Architecture and End to End System Design, Cross functional collaboration, Mentoring, Coaching, and Innovation.

Experience

1. Senior Director of Engineering

   Greenlight

   Apr 2022 — Present · United States

2. Head of Enterprise Architecture

   Trustly

   Jun 2021 — Apr 2022 · San Francisco Bay Area

   Managed engineering and architect groups located in Brazil, and Sweden, launched new products, collaborated with product and business units to improve productivity, brainstorm new ideas, removed SPOFs from the system and scaled the services to handle peak volume and improved system’s availability.

3. Director, Payments Organization

   PayPal

   Feb 2016 — Jun 2021 · San Francisco Bay Area

   * Responsible for end to end payments architecture for critical initiatives such as Crypto Currency, Tokenization (Issuance of physical and virtual PAN), Instant transfers to bank or card, and Pay with Rewards. * Lead a team that is responsible for end-to-end design and development of critical Payments infrastructure. * Create the technical architecture and infrastructure to constantly improve core platform and support record-breaking growth. * Influence cross functional teams to improve system’s reliability, reduce time to market, improve user experience, and increase efficiency by partnering and collaborating with them. * Own design review, discuss new ideas, recommend business process, and perform root cause analysis to avoid future occurrences of critical issues and minimize disruption to system. * Interact with Business development team, external partners, product managers and engineering teams to discuss new initiatives and provide technical guidance to meet the business objective.

4. Principal Engineer

   PayPal

   Jul 2007 — Feb 2016 · San Francisco Bay Area

   Responsible for design, and inplementation of core payments services such as P2P payments, Withdrawals, Add funds, OCT, and RTP.

5. Senior Staff Software Engineer

   Cognizant

   2006 — 2007

6. Senior Software Engineer

   Progress

   2005 — 2006 · Inida

7. Software Engineer

   Veritas

   2001 — 2005

Education

• MBM Engineering College

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

Skills

• Systems Design
• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
• C
• Coaching & Mentoring
• Java
• Vendor Partnerships
• Machine Learning
• Linux
• FinTech
• Team Building
• Software Development
• Distributed Systems
• Databases
• Scrum
• PL/SQL
• Transaction Processing
• Microservices
• C++
• Algorithms
• Leadership
• Solution Architecture
• Scalability
• Software Architecture
• Cross-functional Collaborations
• Technical Leadership
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Team Management
• Git
• System Architecture
• Oracle Database
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Cross-functional Team Leadership
• Payments
• Software Design
• Payment Systems
• Team Mentoring
• Leadership Development
• Design Patterns
• Architecture