About

Gurunath Lohar is a seasoned technologist with 15 years of IT experience and a wide range of domain knowledge. He is currently the Engineering Manager at PayPal, where he focuses on creating great value for customers by reducing time to market, ensuring high availability, and scalability of enterprise applications. Gurunath is passionate about code craftsmanship and setting up engineering excellence culture. He enjoys motivating team members and mentoring them to achieve their full potential. His specialties include Microservices, JAVA, JEE, REST, Spring, Hibernate, SQL, Mongodb, Elasticsearch, and Agile. Before joining PayPal, Gurunath worked as a Member of Technical Staff at eBay, where he led the complete revamp of eBay stores for 16 international sites on a highly scalable, microservices-based platform. He also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Misys, where he designed and developed pluggable, reusable Banking business flows and rule engine, reducing time to market significantly and enhancing customer experience. He performed the role of Scrum Master for the agile team and developed tools to improve developer productivity. Gurunath holds a BE degree in Electronics & Communication from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University. His TechStack includes Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, SQL, Microservices, Java, MongoDB, Elastic Search, and Spring. He has a relevant experience of 19.55 years in the IT industry.