About

Sachin Girdhar is a Senior Engineering Manager at Amazon with over 10 years of experience in leading high-performing engineering organizations. He has a strong track record of designing and building high throughput, distributed systems serving millions of transactions at low latency. Sachin has scaled the Amazon Consumer Payments, Credit Cards organization from 15 to 100 in just two years, spanning multiple teams across Seattle, Arlington, and Bangalore. He has also delivered over 20 services supporting multiple Amazon-wide businesses such as Amazon Consumer Payments, Business Payments, EU, India, Japan, and Emerging Markets. Sachin has maintained a 0% attrition rate for three years straight (2019-2021) while keeping high manager and job satisfaction scores. He has extensive experience with program/portfolio management, project planning/scheduling, planning technology road maps, and building and retaining highly functional engineering teams. Sachin's notable deliveries include launching the Amazon Prime Credit Card in the US (Amazon Flagship goal), launching the Amazon Prime Credit Card across six geographies in three years, launching Physical Stores Integration for Amazon Credit Cards, launching 0% APR BNPL Installments for Amazon Credit Cards WW, launching 5% to 20% Stackable Rewards sponsored by sellers for Amazon Credit Cards, and launching Fraud Detection and Prevention Service for Amazon Credit Cards reducing fraud to the lowest 0.1% in five years. Currently, Sachin is the Head of Engineering, Amazon Credit Cards, leading a team of 130 tech staff (SDMs, TPMs, SDEs, FEEs, SDETs, SEs, and QAs) distributed across Seattle, Arlington, and Bangalore. His team is responsible for launching and managing new and innovative payment methods to customers such as Amazon Cobranded and Private Label Credit Cards and Debit cards, Daily Rewards, Shop with Points, and Buy Now Pay Late (BNPL) Installments. Sachin's past experience includes working as a Software Development Manager and Senior SDE at Amazon, where he delivered multiple key projects for Amazon's Credit Card business, including Financing, Buy Now Pay Later, Merchant Offers, Unified Financing Experience across the Amazon website, Physical Stores, Prequalifications, Fraud Reduction, among many others. Sachin holds a B.Tech degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, and completed his high school education from D.A.V Public School Rohtak. His tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer,