Shanmugasundaram Alagumuthu
Leading the Billing Platform @ Anthropic
About
Engineering leader with 15+ years of industry experience at large-scale companies such as eBay, PayPal, and Turo. Passionate about building high-performance teams and delivering exceptional value to customers. Technical expert in designing and scaling distributed services on cloud platforms, with a strong focus on building product experiences, with specialization in financial services and two-sided marketplaces. Driven by personal values of empathy and continuous growth.
United States
San Francisco Bay Area
Computer Software
Engineering Management, FinTech, Technical Leadership, Team Development, Coaching & Mentoring, Planning Budgeting & Forecasting, Billing Systems, Online Marketplace, Distributed Systems, Apache Kafka, Java 8, Spring Boot, Relational Databases, Design Patterns, Scalability, Software Development, Object Oriented Design, Java, MySQL, Tomcat
Experience
Leading the Billing Platform
Anthropic
San Francisco Bay Area
Billing, Payments and Pricing engineering
Director of Engineering, Payments and Billing
Turo
San Francisco Bay Area
Lead the engineering team at Turo to scale the financial services platform, reduce revenue recognition time, and drive cross-departmental initiatives. • Lead the 1 to 100 scaling transformation of the monolithic backend into a compliant and distributed platform. • Built a high-performing engineering team from scratch through strategic hiring and mentoring. • Drove initiatives to expand the platform to new international markets and boost checkout conversion.
Senior Member of Technical Staff
PayPal
San Francisco Bay Area
Led the redesign and rebuilding of the Loyalty and Engagement Platform, resulting in a 3x performance improvement. Additionally, I designed and implemented the Payment Transaction Planning service, reducing latency by 2x.
Staff Software Engineer
PayPal
San Francisco Bay Area
Developed PayPal's digital wallets APIs and scaled those to handle over a billion calls per day.
Senior Software Engineer
PayPal
San Francisco Bay Area
Led the re-platforming of PayPal's checkout backend, improving user experience. Developed next-gen PayPal Checkout REST APIs for seamless transactions.
Software Engineer
eBay
San Francisco Bay Area
Developed an e-commerce buyer experience for Toys vertical category at eBay, leading to increased user engagement and sales. Developed skills in backend engineering, e-commerce optimization, and rapid prototyping.
Software Engineer
eBay
Chennai Area, India
Spearheaded the development of the eBay Email Intermediation system, enhancing buyer-seller communications. Implemented innovative solutions to streamline communication processes and improve user experience.
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