Rajaram Sachithanantham

• Engineering leader, heading Online Payments, Settlements and Onboarding experiences with strong customer-first focus.
• Spearheaded development of efficient cloud applications through collaboration with business, sales, and engineering executives, driving exponential growth.
• Automated complex settlements pipeline, transitioning from manual process to API-first approach across more than 10 integrations.
• Orchestrated and empowered dynamic team of leads and engineers, ensuring successful execution of transformative technology modernization initiatives within settlement systems.

Over my tenure at PayPal , I assumed diverse roles, seamlessly transitioning between leading engineering initiatives and managing teams within the realms of pricing and payments switch.

Engineering Manager - Pricing :

• Led engineering team of 2 scrum teams for both pricing configuration management system and pricing calculations rule engines.
• Successfully improved pricing configuration management and rule engine efficiency, resulting in 80% reduction in processing time and costs.
• Played pivotal role in seamless integration of new pricing strategies and adjustments into system, contributing to increased revenue and enhanced customer experiences.

MTS1 / Lead Engineer - Payments Switch:

• Led Switch platform team, focusing on real-time processing applications and settlement batches.
• Designed and implemented real-time processing applications, including 3DS 2.0 compliance for EU mandate, inbound and outbound switch.
• Managed programs such as Global Pay Later (GPL) and India Payment Gateway (IPG) in collaboration with service teams for Credit line.
• Designed and implemented framework for migrating C++ code to Java components to facilitate interactions with external processors.
• Contributed to migration programs, including Card Present (PPH), Credit, Capture, DCC, batch withdrawal, and UKFPS.
• Implemented critical capabilities like Redundancy, Resiliency, Fail-Fast, and Asynchronous processing for improved system performance.

• Led team of consultants in successful execution of complex projects, meeting critical milestones and objectives.
• Collaborated closely with PayPal's leadership to identify opportunities for process improvement and optimization.
• Implemented innovative strategies to enhance operational efficiency and reduce costs.
• Regularly assessed project risks and implemented mitigation strategies to ensure successful completion of tasks.
• Played pivotal role in integration of cutting-edge technologies to drive business growth and innovation.

• Design & developed managed and un-managed components for Job, Recipe & Results to build semi-conductor wafer analysis tools using VC++ and .Net

• Implemented Biometric (Fingerprint) Authentication.
• Designed & implemented cluster application service, Load balancing, High Availability and IDS with VES server

• Implemented media servers and modules to parse and stream media files in window and linux environment to the network attached media player