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Arunkumar Venkatesan is a seasoned software engineer with over 12 years of experience in building highly scalable, reliable, and resilient software infrastructure products. He has exceptional abilities to drive product ideas into deliverables while identifying customer needs. Arunkumar has proven skills in leading and managing teams in growth and has a well-established track record of solving real-time problems in much simpler ways. Arunkumar has extensive experience working cross-functionally with other executives in engineering, operations, partners, and stakeholders to create and execute high-growth strategies. He has delivered large-scale products successfully by designing, developing from scratch, and leading a bunch of engineers. Arunkumar is a seasoned security product developer and has built high-security products that take traffic in billions per day, spending only a few milliseconds per request. Arunkumar has expertise in enterprise product development, including identifying unmet/underserved needs and requirements definition. He has a proven track record in product management and defining roadmaps for the products. Arunkumar is an expert in team building with a strong sense of ownership. Currently, Arunkumar is working as a Member of Technical Staff 2 at PayPal, responsible for building highly scalable security products that handle heavy traffic in billions per day with great processing time. He is also responsible for the end-to-end product lifecycle of the security platform products. Arunkumar is managing multiple product releases throughout the software development lifecycle, including market requirements assessment, release planning, feature prioritization, detailed functional/design/test spec reviews with UX/Engineering/QA, and regular executive communication. Arunkumar has worked with several top companies in the past, including Visa and JP Morgan, where he was responsible for driving the adoption of secure software product lifecycle development and leading a team of engineers. He has received numerous awards and recognition for his outstanding work and customer-centric approach. Arunkumar holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Public Relations from the University of Madras, a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Loyola College, Chennai, India, and a Master of Computer Applications - MCA from the University of Madras, Chennai, India. His technical skills include software engineering, product management, machine learning, SQL, testing, QA, infrastructure, senior software engineering, and web development. Arunkumar has relevant experience of 10.78 years.