About

Smitha Chennu is an experienced engineering manager at WePay, with a proven track record in leading complex and high-impact projects in the payments, eCommerce, and banking industries. She takes pride in delivering high-quality software and has built and led teams in delivering business projects as well as Java framework components. Smitha has received several developer/execution excellence awards and enjoys participating in hackathons, where she has won several accolades and had honorable mentions for her hackathon ideas. Smitha's proficiency lies in technical leadership, API design, REST, GraphQL, Java, Hadoop (HIVE & PIG), JMS, Python, SQL, Teradata, and Machine Learning. Her domains of expertise include Payments Fraud & Risk, Authentication risk, Ecommerce Fraud & Risk, Shipping, and Middle and back-office systems in financial firms. Currently, Smitha is serving as an Engineering Manager (Risk Infrastructure) at WePay. She has previously worked at PayPal in multiple roles such as Architect, Engineering Leader, and Member of Technical Staff 2. At PayPal, she was the technical lead in the Payment Risk Transaction team and spearheaded the effort to create a simple and elegant risk unified entry point to risk, compliance, and limits decision systems. Smitha holds a Masters degree in Networking and Telecommunications from The University of Texas and a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree from Osmania University. She has also completed an Executive Development Program in Product Management from the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business. Smitha's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, infra, SQL, Java, ML, Hadoop, product manager, Python, Apache Hive, and Software Engineer. With 19.70 years of relevant experience, Smitha is a technology leader who can drive successful outcomes for complex projects in the payments and eCommerce domains.