About

Srinivasa Arudra is an experienced Engineering Manager at PayPal, with over 15 years of software development experience and 3 years of thoughtful engineering leadership. He is a passionate software development leader with a proven track record of building high-performance teams of medium scale. Srinivasa is a problem solver with a customer-centric approach, having rich experience in designing and delivering scalable, reliable consumer and merchant-focused platform products. Currently, as a Software Engineering Manager at PayPal, Srinivasa has built a high-performing team responsible for creating a next-gen address normalization, location services platform for PayPal Inc. He has also designed and delivered a key initiative to vertically scale the address normalization platform, reducing vCPU footprint by 50%, thereby saving $300K USD in licensing fees. Srinivasa has also held one-on-one weekly meetings with direct reports for status updates, mentoring and coaching sessions, and has assisted in recruiting for PayPal's Platform Services org, filling 10 engineering positions across the organization. In his past roles, Srinivasa has worked as a Senior Engineer- Testing at CSC and as a Senior Software Engineer at Motorola. He has led a team of 3 engineers to deliver, certify quality of PayPal mobile backend services, mobile web, native mobile applications, and mobile passporting initiatives. Srinivasa has a B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University and has completed his Pre-University from Nagarjuna Junior College, Ongole, AP, India. He has also completed his schooling from AP Residential School for Boys, Ganapavaram, Prakasam (Dist), AP. Srinivasa has a diverse technical skill set that includes Senior Software Engineer, Normalization, Mobile, Test, Software Engineer, Product Manager, Web, Cassandra, iOS, GCP, UI, Backend, Java, and Android. With over 16 years of relevant experience, Srinivasa is a customer champion with a proven track record of delivering core products in either of Payments, Credit, eCommerce space. He is looking to be associated with a team/organization that is agile, has a growth mindset, and leverages his skills to deliver core products in either of Payments, Credit, eCommerce space.