About

Palaniappan Kathiresan is a senior software professional with over 15 years of experience in software development, possessing outstanding leadership and team building capabilities. He is currently the Head of Engineering at Davinta Financial Services, where he is responsible for managing technical teams and coordinating all phases of projects. Palaniappan is adept at quickly learning and adapting to emerging technologies, with good experience in Payment Integrations (Credit Card, Debit Card, ACH etc.), Accounting & Reconciliation Systems. Palaniappan has worked with global teams and has excellent interpersonal skills, making him an effective leader and team player. He has experience in providing leadership, direction, and managing technical teams, with a demonstrated capacity to motivate and lead project teams. Palaniappan has a good business acumen, which allows him to understand the needs of the business and align technical solutions accordingly. In his previous role at Visa, Palaniappan contributed as an architect in building a common payment processor connectivity platform that provided processor integration as a service to Visa inc companies like CyberSource, Authorize.NET, etc. He also defined standard integration interfaces for post-transaction integrations for CyberSource Acquiring Platform to integrate with payment partners. Palaniappan re-architected the reconciliation platform to provide standard post-transaction integrations (reconciliation, funding, fees, chargeback, etc.) and reporting solutions for CyberSource Merchants. Palaniappan has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication from Anna University and a Post Graduate Executive Program in Management from GLIM. He has experience working with a variety of technologies, including Java, Spring, Spring Batch, Shell Scripts, Linux, Oracle, dotNET, and Python. With 18.29 years of relevant experience, Palaniappan is an accomplished software professional with a strong track record of delivering high-quality solutions.