About

Ganesh Lakshminarayanan is an experienced technology enthusiast with over 11 years of experience in the financial services industry. He is currently a Member of Technical Staff 2 at PayPal, where he is responsible for increasing customer engagement and experience for Japanese users by redesigning the entire KYC process. Ganesh is well-versed in Java, Scala, Groovy, Ruby on Rails, Memcached, and ElasticSearch. He is a strong program and project management professional with an Engineer's Degree focused in Computer Science and Engineering from PSG College of Technology. Ganesh is a technology enthusiast with a keen sense for the ever-changing demands of business needs. He has taken the mantle of Gatekeeper and Principal Architect for multiple services, including services created ground up new and some owned by others but modified to make it easy to maintain and enhance. Ganesh is well versed in Agile methodology and strives not only to improve tech efficiency and code quality of the development team but also to constantly improve the throughput of the entire Delivery team (Tech and Non-Tech) through innovative tech solutions and skillset training, process changes. In his past roles, Ganesh has managed a development team of 16 developers, 4 testers, and 2 DevOps engineers, across 3 scrum teams. He has championed the tech backlog and tech improvements by sharing cost analysis breakdowns and securing Business Team buy-in. Ganesh has also introduced coding standards document and coding best standards, including extensive unit test coverage, peer code review, two levels of review, RCA procedures, Retrospective meetings, and Scrum diligence in the Team. He has increased efficiency of the system by 400% by innovative design by leveraging and understanding the business objective to bring system costs down by minimizing the computing cycle of the Business Rule Engine. Ganesh has a diverse tech stack, including experience as a Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Microservices, Ruby, Elastic Search, Backend, DevOps, AWS, Mobile, Spring, product manager, Javascript, Spring Boot, Jenkins, ECS, Parts-of-speech, Java, Selenium, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Scala. Overall, Ganesh has 14.70 years of relevant experience in the technology industry.