Tavitayya Mudda
Chennai
Summary
As a dedicated and strategic Engineering Manager with over 17 years of experience in driving innovation, leading high-performing teams, and delivering scalable solutions in the fintech space. Proven expertise in managing cross-functional teams, enhancing engineering processes, and executing large-scale projects. Passionate about advancing technology, optimising workflows, and mentoring future engineering leaders to achieve both organisational and personal success.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineering Manager
PayPal India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
03.2020 - Current
- As a seasoned Engineering Manager, I am committed to revolutionizing and integrating real-time money movement systems at PayPal. I have led transformative initiatives, including the Instalment Cost to Buyer (IC2B), generating $25M in revenue; the real-time money movement system (PIX), achieving $50M in cost savings for Brazil; and the development of SMS capability on DMS rails for the LATAM and Australia, driving $27M in revenue.
- As an engineering manager, I led a development team of 15 members to successfully deliver revenue growth initiatives at PayPal. I coordinated with over 30 teams to secure sign-off on the model, demonstrating effective cross-team collaboration and project management.
- Spearheaded adoption of agile methodologies, significantly improving team productivity and project turnaround times Engaged with stakeholders and product teams to gather requirements and drive feature prioritization.
- Provided personalized mentorship and support to junior managers, engineers, and new hires, helping them excel in their roles and enhance their technical skills. As part of the mentorship cohort at PayPal, successfully guided 20 individuals over the years, resulting in 10 promotions and 3 transitions into product development roles.
- Spearheaded the development of tools, applications, code improvements, and scripts to alleviate operational burden for support engineers and Operations
- Led cross-functional projects to automate support workflows and regression suites, achieving a 20% boost in operational efficiency. Successfully executed 10K test cases within one hour, streamlining testing processes and enhancing productivity.
- Managed production builds, tools, and configuration management for software product releases and executed successful deployments
Community Impact
PayPal
Chennai
06.2018 - Current
- Led a corporate social responsibility initiative that positively impacted over 100 local community members through various outreach programs, including purchasing items from SMBs and distributing them to children in NGOs, successfully planting over 1,000 trees, and providing assistance to more than 25 physically challenged individuals
Tech Lead
PayPal India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
06.2016 - 02.2020
- Core member of a team that enabled PayPal India domestic operations
- As a tech lead, I lead a team of 8 members to onboard offers program to PayPal India domestic operations, resulted 100 million NNA
- Implemented a new capability at PayPal to recover funds provided as offers in cases of refunds on the associated payment transactions
Lead Engineer
Identive, CSC, Ford, Altimetrik, HCL
Chennai
01.2007 - 01.2020
- As a Software Engineer and Lead Engineer across all the companies mentioned above, developed , lead the teams to successfully rolled out initiatives in telecom, finance, networking and physical device security domains
- At Identive, I led a team of engineers in migrating a physical access security platform from C to C++, transitioning the system to a more modern, service-oriented architecture (SOA)
- This project aimed to enhance the platform's scalability, flexibility, and maintainability while improving performance and enabling easier integration with new services
- At Ford, I developed a smart board system to optimise the parts retrieval process from warehouses to the car assembly section
- The system was designed to track and display real-time information on parts availability across multiple warehouses
- The smart board integrated with the warehouse inventory system to provide up-to-date data on the stock levels of critical parts
- At HCL, I was responsible for developing and implementing the Diameter protocol, a network protocol designed to facilitate Authentication, Authorisation, and Accounting (AAA) in various applications, particularly in telecommunications and service provider environments
- This project aimed to enhance secure access control and improve the management of user sessions and resources
Education
B.Tech(CSE) -
JNTU
Hyderabad04-2004
Skills
- System Architecture
- Team Management
- Agile Methodologies
- Conflict Resolution
- Performance Evaluation
- Mentorship
- Project Planning
- Budget Management
- Stakeholder Communication
- Resource Allocation
- C
- Java
- Data Structures & Algorithms
- Software Development
- Continuous integration
Affiliations
- Problem Solving
- Mentorship and Teaching
- Community Service
- Fitness and Wellness
Timeline
Software Engineering Manager
PayPal India Pvt Ltd
03.2020 - Current
Community Impact
PayPal
06.2018 - Current
Tech Lead
PayPal India Pvt Ltd
06.2016 - 02.2020
Lead Engineer
Identive, CSC, Ford, Altimetrik, HCL
01.2007 - 01.2020
B.Tech(CSE) -
JNTU
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