S.RAJA SUNDARA NAYAKI
CHENNAI
Summary
Innovative Director of engineering with 20+ years of extensive experience in product development in the eCommerce Industry. Skilled at problem-solving, design-thinking, bringing innovative approach to complex business issues, delivering customer-centric products with High quality for the FinTech Industry.
Successful track record in achieving consistent results, able to lead and Build high performing teams and ability to identify and prioritize organization needs. An Enthusiastic leader with a reputation for collaborative and interactive workstyle.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Engineering
Walmart
04.2024 - Current
- Leading a team of engineers and engineering managers (60+) on our mission to build a global, multi-tenant platform that enables the benefits administrator to create, configure and manage multiple benefits for health, wealth and emotional wellbeing
- ✔ Led co-located teams to successfully migrate 30-year-old mainframe code to a modern Benefits Administrator platform.
✔ Developed a unified app for 1.5 million associates to manage pay and benefits seamlessly.
Software Engineering Manager II
Walmart
07.2020 - 03.2024
- Work on the Total Rewards Portfolio, Leading the Total Rewards Team from IDC under HR systems for US, UK Walmart associate
- Managing the group of Engineering leaders under Total Rewards
- Work with business team, identify the right strategy, business value and responsible for delivering the Benefits application
- Involve in the technical design, architecture discussion, and code reviews, ensure products are delivered with high quality on time
- Promote best practice development habits and high product quality standards through code reviews and automated testing (Unit Test Cases/ Functional Test Cases)
- Involved in active hiring and bringing the right talent to the team
Software Engineering Manager
PayPal
06.2018 - 06.2020
- Work with portfolio team, identify the right strategy, business value and responsible for delivery in Dispute Management
- Manage the team of 10+ members and work closely with Design, Product owners, analytics on building the Disputes Management
- Involve in the technical design, architecture discussion, and code reviews, ensure products are delivered with high quality on time
- Promote best practice development habits and high product quality standards through code reviews and automated testing (Unit Test Cases/ Functional Test Cases)
Senior Technical Lead
PayPal
06.2017 - 05.2018
- Led customer-focused changes and improvements to Disputes management
- Implemented the process of automating flow which resulted in Team member's productivity and faster to Market
- Architected, Led the technical development of Dispute workflows
- Been as SME for front end applications in Disputes Management and scrum master for the team
- Ensured code reviews, quality check (Unit Test coverage, Functional Test coverage, Instrumentation) had been done before the launch of the product
Technical Lead
PayPal
10.2011 - 05.2017
- Led the team and technical development of building rich user interface applications for Disputes, Payouts, and express checkout applications
- Build reusable UI components using react
- Responsible for building the server-side modules using Node JS
- Worked closely with product, design team on crafting the experience
- Built the mobile express checkout applications with responsive design
- Ensured the code optimization, instrumentation and error handling are in place
- Part of the lean UX process, rapid prototyping and get customer feedback through user research
- Built effective monitoring in place by setting up alerts system for the application
- Ensured Code reviews, unit testing, and integration testing are done before launching the product
Associate Manager – Application Development
DXC
02.2007 - 09.2011
- Developed a rich user interface for the Funding Instruments pages which increased the satisfaction for customers
- Worked closely with UX Design and ensured the experiences are built responsive
- Ensured Technical Design documents, design architecture reviews are done with the PayPal client
- Ensured code reviews, UT, FT and quality checks are done before delivery of the product
Software Engineer
Indus Net Technologies
06.2006 - 02.2007
- Architected, designed and developed the ecommerce products using the Technology PHP, HTML, JAVASCRIPT and MYSQL
- Managed the Customer and stakeholders directly
- Involved from conceptual phase to production
- Responsible for delivery and monitoring
Web Developer
chrisranjana Software Private Ltd
12.2004 - 06.2006
- Developed web applications related to School Management, eLearning using the Technologies PHP, ASP, HTML, JAVASCRIPT
- Involved from the conceptual phase to production
Education
Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Electronic Engineering
HINDUSTAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Chennai, India04-2024
Skills
Technology Transformation: Expertise in leading large-scale technology modernization efforts, including legacy system migrations and cloud adoption, to improve efficiency and scalability
Stakeholder Management: Strong track record in managing relationships with key business leaders, vendors, and stakeholders to ensure successful project execution and delivery
Engineering Leadership: Demonstrated ability to organize and execute complex and dynamic projects; an excellent record of delivering products on time, meeting business-critical release criteria
Process Optimization: Focused on streamlining operations, improving processes, and leveraging automation to drive productivity and reduce costs
Self-Motivator: Curious learner, would like to explore new things Able to learn new frameworks/technology and adapt to organizational strengths
Team Building & Development: Skilled at recruiting, mentoring, and scaling high-performance teams, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and growth
Change Management: Experienced in leading teams through change, ensuring smooth transitions and minimal disruption while driving organizational transformation
Data-Driven Decision Making: Adept at utilizing data analytics to inform decisions, assess team performance, and optimize outcomes in fast-paced environments
Accomplishments
✔ Led co-located teams to successfully migrate 30-year-old mainframe code to a modern Benefits Administrator platform.
✔Built a Benefits Administrator platform to configure 70+ benefits plans and integrate with 65+ vendors.
✔Developed a unified app for 1.5 million associates to manage pay and benefits seamlessly.
✔Grew the Wellbeing team at Walmart from scratch to 90+ members within 3 years.
✔Managed engineering teams for Benefits and Compensation, ensuring high-performance delivery.
✔Reduced contact volume for Disputes Management by 10% by improvised experience and saved 7 million to PayPal.
✔ Enhanced Dispute Dashboard for Merchants increased satisfaction for 300 big merchants
✔Achieved Goal of 100% of migrating the Disputes Management flow to Industry Standards with latest technology within 18 months.
✔ Led the team and executed the regional based solutions for Merchants for EMEA.
✔ Led the team ,executed and implemented mobile based experience(IOS/Android) for all Checkout products in PayPal.
✔ Organized technology initiatives for Paypal engineering teams including Opportunity Hackathons, Conferences, Workshops, Training
✔ Co-lead ‘Women-Who-Build' – Unity Chennai Chapter @ Paypal
Timeline
Director of Engineering
Walmart
04.2024 - Current
Software Engineering Manager II
Walmart
07.2020 - 03.2024
Software Engineering Manager
PayPal
06.2018 - 06.2020
Senior Technical Lead
PayPal
06.2017 - 05.2018
Technical Lead
PayPal
10.2011 - 05.2017
Associate Manager – Application Development
DXC
02.2007 - 09.2011
Software Engineer
Indus Net Technologies
06.2006 - 02.2007
Web Developer
chrisranjana Software Private Ltd
12.2004 - 06.2006
Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Electronic Engineering
HINDUSTAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
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