About

Vasanth Myilsamy is an experienced and strategic technology leader with a strong track record of building large-scale, distributed, high-performance resilient systems and platforms supporting millions of users every day in the internet/ecommerce space. He is highly focused on customers, innovation, empowerment, continuous improvements, and operational excellence. Vasanth is passionate about building highly effective teams, technology, design, and architecture. He is a strong believer in data-driven decisions and Agile methodologies. With over 5 years of technical management and 14 years of total software development experience, Vasanth has played various roles ranging from software engineer, architect, lead, and management in agile scrum setup. He has expertise in cross-cultural talent training, people development, and collaborating with cross-functional global teams. Vasanth's focus on Test Driven Design and Test Driven Development is commendable. He has extensive experience in design patterns, Object-Oriented programming/Java, database technologies, Service-Oriented Architecture, and microservices, making him an expert in eCommerce, Fraud & Risk, Payments, Trust & Identity domains. Vasanth is currently an Engineering Manager at Amazon, where he is building and leading an engineering team developing capabilities and features for Amazon World wide Checkout Platform. Previously, he worked at eBay as a Senior Software Engineering Manager and a Software Engineering Manager 2. At eBay, he built and led a high-performing team of software professionals, including managers, software development engineers, and quality engineers. Vasanth delivered highly scalable, highly available platforms/systems/services for Seller Risk management - onboarding, payments holds, recoup, payouts, refunds/reversals catering to global scale of eBay - handling volumes of 500Million+ txns, 1000s of data features, and 10B+ db calls. He was responsible for strategic business/product planning, defining roadmap, technical/architectural leadership, hands-on-design, high-quality delivery, and operation excellence. Vasanth collaborated with Business, Product, Data Science, Data Analytics, and cross-functional teams and successfully delivered key business metrics. He coached, hired, built teams from ground up and promoted top talent. Vasanth holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from the College of Engineering, graduating in 2008. He is skilled in Senior Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Java, Microservices, and Data Science. Vasanth's relevant experience is 14.55 years.