About

Sathish Vaidyanathan is a Senior Director of Software Development at PayPal, leading the Payments Expansion Engineering Team. With 24 years of experience in software research and development, he specializes in building large web-scale systems, secure and high-performance platforms supporting millions of users every day. He is passionate about customer-centric innovation, diversity and inclusion, people development, and ecosystem building. Sathish has played a key role in launching PayPal in India and has experience working with global stakeholders, leading global teams, interacting with global vendors, and delivering products for global customers. He has held various engineering roles ranging from software engineer, technical architect, project lead, and engineering management using both agile and waterfall methodologies. Sathish is an articulate communicator with the ability to work with people at all levels, build peer networks, influence decision making, and maintain relationships. He has a strong tech skill set that includes Java/J2EE, enterprise technologies, databases, data warehouses, security, scalability, performance, and mobile. In addition to his technical expertise, Sathish is also a skilled organizational leader with competencies in business strategy, product development, talent modeling, mentoring, budgeting, vendor management, change and move management, performance management, process coaching, culture building, innovation, intrapreneurship, and employee engagement. Sathish has spearheaded the formation of PayPal Incubator, PayPal's award-winning startup incubator, and has worked with industry forums, startups, academic research labs, developer communities, and non-profits. He is a speaker at conferences and university campuses and has been a jury panelist at SRM Hackathon, Chennai-India, and a panelist on the topic "Deepening Community Impact through Pro Bono" at the Global Summit on Corporate Volunteering, Delhi-India. Sathish holds a Bachelor's Degree and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Madras. His relevant experience is 26.04 years, and his tech stack includes Software Engineer, Tokenization, Research Scientist, Web, Senior Software Engineer, and Java.