About

Vishakha Singh is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer at PayPal with over 6 years of experience in the industry. She is currently working with the Checkouts Infra core development team on open sourcing the PayPal Checkout. Her primary responsibility is to simplify the current integration script behind the PayPal Express Checkout, which required simplification due to a lot of feature creep. She accomplished this task by re-writing the entire integration script using Javascript ES6, making it faster, modular, and much better documented. Due to PayPal Express Checkout's huge clientele, interoperability of the new API with the existing API is ensured with a compatibility layer between the two. She also developed distributable cross-domain components that work seamlessly with iframes and pop-ups. Vishakha has a Master's degree in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology, where she is currently working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant under Professor Polo Chau for Data Visual and Analytics (graduate level course). Her responsibilities involve contribution in preparing and grading of assignments and project work. They create coursework that includes various techniques and tools for analyzing and visualizing data at scale. Vishakha has a strong technical background and is proficient in software engineering, integration, Javascript, infra, and research scientist. She has worked as an Application Engineer Intern with the Checkouts Infra core development team on open sourcing the PayPal Checkout. Her work involved re-writing the entire integration script using Javascript ES6, making it faster, modular, and much better documented. She has also developed distributable cross-domain components that work seamlessly with iframes and pop-ups. Overall, Vishakha is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with a strong technical background and experience in software engineering, integration, Javascript, infra, and research scientist. She has a Master's degree in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and is currently working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant under Professor Polo Chau for Data Visual and Analytics (graduate level course).