About

Umang Jalan is a Senior Software Engineer at Stripe with over 7 years of experience in developing large scalable distributed system applications. His expertise lies in Java, Python, MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres, Kafka, Hbase, Cassandra, Redis, Nginx, Zookeeper, NodeJs, Angular 1, Firestore, Typescript, AWS, Google Cloud, and Cloud Functions. At Stripe, Umang has worked as an Engineer in Global Authentication Platform and APAC Payment Methods team, where he was responsible for card authentication infrastructure and regional payment methods. He led the design, development, and launch of Thailand Debit Card 3DS2 support via Cybersource, which optimized the authentication rates by ~40% and has potential impact of ~$40M in annual payment volume. Umang also led the development of Indian payment methods (UPI & Netbanking), involved in the design and implementation of Payment/Refund APIs, merchant onboarding flow, settlement/recon pipelines, and cross-collaboration with external/internal teams. Prior to Stripe, Umang was the Co-Founder & CTO at MyKaam, where he scaled the platform to 1M+ users within 1.5 years. He was responsible for everything tech, product, and UX, including audio/video transcoding service, candidate search/ranking system, ATS, ranked professional feed, managed revenue/sales team of 10+, login funnel optimization by optimizing on SMS delivery, integration with Truecaller, payment integration with Cashfree, DevOps, feed personalization, UX/user research, Android app, and candidate sourcing partnerships with multiple clients like Zomato, Dunzo, NoBroker, Gigforce. Umang also worked as a Software Development Engineer - II at Swiggy, where he worked on the initial design and development of Cart as a platform to be used by multiple teams across multiple product lines and abstracted out Billing service from the monolithic codebase as a microservice. Umang has a B.Tech in Computer Science from VIT and completed his Senior Secondary School from Delhi Public School, Bokaro Steel City. He is skilled in software engineering, NodeJS, Java, Redis, Javascript, infra, AWS, Kafka, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, integration, Typescript, Postgres, search, research scientist, elastic search, DevOps, Spring, web, PHP, microservices, UI, and backend.