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Priya Gopalakrishnan

Engineering Manager @ GiggleFinance

United States
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Updated 8 months ago

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Years Experience

9

Roles

54

Skills

2

Education

About

Passionate Engineering Leader dedicated to fostering growth and innovation within teams. Proven track record at PayPal, leading multiple projects and teams, including Risk As A Service, Braintree Chargeback Protection, Tier1/Tier2 Financial Risk Modeling Service for Fraud Determination. Extensive technical proficiency across diverse domains and technologies, from JAVA to cloud platforms like AWS and GCP. Domain proficiency in Transaction Processing including Payments, Risk, Compliance, Limits, Transaction Post Processing including Disputes and Resolution. Recognized for thought leadership with awards from Cisco and PayPal, alongside consistent academic excellence. Actively engaged in mentoring programs and contributing to academic publications. Technical and Soft Skills • Domain: FinTech, Payment Risk, Limits, Compliance, Chargeback/Disputes handling, Telecom, Computer Networks, • Language: JAVA, Ruby on Rails, Python, C, C++, Node,PHP,Perl, Hadoop, Pig Script • Cloud: AWS, GCP | OS - WINDOWS, SOLARIS, LINUX, UNIX, Mac OS • DB: MySQL, Oracle, SQL, JDBC, JSP, JMS, MAMP, Apache Tomcat, MongoDB, PostGreSQL • Swings, Design Patterns, OOP, HTML, XML, Java Script, Drupal, Eclipse, Netbeans, Intellij, VSCode, Clover, Findbugs, Ant, Clearcase, ClearQuest, UML, NLTK, Tregex, Automatic testing using scripts, Junits, Wordnet, EVALB, JIRA, Git, maven, webstorm, NMS/EMS platform, SNMP V1, V2, V3, CORBA, TR069 Protocol, SOAP based Web Services, SSH, TELNET, FTP, TFTP, MPLS TP/TE, VPLS, Kubernetes, Docker, Atlassian, Notebooks, BigQuery, Miro, Confluence • Methodology – Waterfall, Agile(Scrum) • Soft Skills: Good Communication skills-speaking and listening and a Good Strategic thinker.

Experience (9 roles)

District 101 Toastmasters · Part-time

Cofounder - ManagersMeet ToastMasters Club

Current

District 101 Toastmasters · Part-time

Sep 2024 - Present · 11 mos·San Jose, California, United States · Hybrid

Cofounder and President of Manager's Meet ToastMasters Club https://managersmeet.toastmastersclubs.org/ Skills: Leadership · People Management · Mentoring · Coaching · Communication · Cross-team Collaboration

Giggle Finance · Full-time

Engineering Manager

Giggle Finance · Full-time

Oct 2024 - Mar 2025 · 6 mos·San Jose, California, United States · Remote

• Manage and Lead a Team of 6 Engineers that are geographically distributed. • Manage and run the complete SDLC process using Agile methodology ceremonies like Backlog grooming, Planning, Daily Standups, Demos and Retrospectives. Write technical tasks/stories and assign it to the engineers to conver...

Full-time · 10 yrs 3 mos

3 roles · Aug 2014 - Oct 2024

Member of Technical Staff 2, Software Engineer | Group Tech Lead

Apr 2022 - Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Group Tech Lead – Risk As A Service (RaaS) Platform | PayPal Group Tech Lead for the Risk As A Service (RaaS) Platform team supporting PayPal Adjacencies such as Braintree, Venmo, Xoom Connect, and the Braintree Chargeback Protection product. • Lead two geographically distributed scrum teams across ...

Member Of Technical Staff 1, Software Engineer | Tech Lead

Jul 2017 - Apr 2022 · 4 yrs 10 mos

Tech Lead for Risk Infra Platform Team. Lead 1 scrum team of 5 engineers in San Jose. • Risk Infra Platform team is responsible for giving out approve/decline decision for each transaction. • Lead and Design and develop API/components/software to handle millions of PayPal transactions to provide th...

Software Engineer 3

Aug 2014 - Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Lead and Design/Develop software to integrate PayPal as payment method for Large Merchants like Facebook, Samsung. • Lead and Develop software to support the eBay Marketplaces (ProX) integration with PayPal. • Lead and Develop software to support the SetTransactionContext API for PayPal through whic...

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Education (2)

University of Arizona

University of Arizona

2012 - 2014

Grade: 3.7

Bangalore University

Bangalore University

2003 - 2007

Grade: 3.24 Skills: English

Skills (54)

Enterprise SoftwarePeople ManagementFraud PreventionReactJavaRubyAWSSecurityWeb Application FirewallsCommunicationNode.jsRisk ManagementStakeholder ManagementCollaborative Problem Solvingjupiter notebooksLeadershipMentoringFinancial Transaction ProcessingCross-team CollaborationManagement ProfessionalFraud DetectionReact.jsCoachingSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Google CloudGoogle BigQueryPythonReactRangeEC2Node.jsJavaScriptApache KafkaJavaCloudAWSRubyPythonPHPLinuxMySQLMongoDBPostgreSQLHTML5VS CodeUMLNLTKJiraGitKubernetesDockerBigQueryMiroConfluence
Certifications (13)

AI For Everyone

DeepLearning.AI

Developing Your Leadership Philosophy

LinkedIn

Machine Learning Specialization

DeepLearning.AI, Stanford University

Mentoring Women in Business Programme

Cherie Blair Foundation for Women

Communicating with Empathy

LinkedIn

Learning GraphQL

LinkedIn

Advanced Learning Algorithms

DeepLearning.AI, Stanford University

Unsupervised Learning, Recommenders, Reinforcement Learning

DeepLearning.AI, Stanford University

Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification

DeepLearning.AI, Stanford University

Ruby and Ruby on Rails Starter

Udemy

Fraud Prevention, Dispute Resolution and PCI-DSS Masterclass

Udemy

Functional Programming with Streams in Java 9

LinkedIn

Honored Listee

Marquis Who's Who

Publications (1)

Design and Performance of Fault-Tolerant Systems for Improved Lifespan in Wireless Sensor Networks

International Conference on Information Systems and Technologies 2007 · Dec 1, 2007

Volunteer Experience (1)

Mentor

Cherie Blair Foundation for Women

Jun 2020 - Jun 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

Honors & Awards (1)

Cisco Achievement Program (CAP)

Issued by Cisco Systems · Dec 2011

Associated with Cisco Systems Recognized for outstanding awards and achievements.

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Priya Gopalakrishnan is currently working as Cofounder - ManagersMeet ToastMasters Club at District 101 Toastmasters · Part-time.
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Priya Gopalakrishnan studied Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at University of Arizona. They have 2 education entries on their profile.
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Priya Gopalakrishnan's top skills include Enterprise Software, People Management, Fraud Prevention, React, Java. They have 54 skills listed on their profile.
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