About

Dwarakesh Gowarthanam is a highly skilled Lead Product Manager with over 13 years of experience in product development, engineering management, and programming. He is a dedicated and result-oriented professional who excels in translating business needs into technology requirements that meet project objectives. Throughout his career, Dwarakesh has demonstrated excellent communication and leadership skills, as well as a proven ability to solve problems with a can-do attitude. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Griffith award for academic excellence in 2009-2010 at Griffith University, Australia, and the Jewel of the Year award in 2011 and Jewel of the 2nd Quarter in 2012 for his work as a senior developer. Currently, Dwarakesh works as a Lead Product Manager at PayPal, where he oversees product development and manages a team of professionals. He has also worked at PayPal as a contractor, where he served as a designer and senior developer on a project focused on vendor isolation and switch. In this role, he was responsible for designing and developing the switch, migrating the application from C++ to Java, and improving performance, scalability, and availability. Prior to his work at PayPal, Dwarakesh served as a Senior Application Developer at CSC India Pvt. Ltd. In this role, he worked on a project for Lowe's POS, where he was responsible for high-level and low-level designing and implementing a new incentive type using C/C++ and DB2 in Linux. Dwarakesh holds a Masters in Information Systems from Griffith University and a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication from Anna University. He also completed his secondary education in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Computer Science at XII, 2003 SRV Higher Secondary School. Dwarakesh's technical skills include product management, senior software engineering, design, Java, parts-of-speech, and C. With his extensive experience and expertise, he is a valuable asset to any team focused on product development and management.