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Siva D

San Francisco

Summary

Seasoned Engineering Manager with rich background in leading engineering teams and overseeing complex projects. Known for strong leadership skills, innovative problem-solving abilities and deep understanding of engineering principles. Have consistently driven product development processes to successful completion, fostering improved productivity and efficiency within teams. Possess excellent interpersonal communication skills, capable of forging powerful relationships with stakeholders at all levels.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Engineering Manager — Engineering Manager — Tech Lead

Trinet Zenefits
01.2019 - Current
  • Defined and executed the long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap for decoupling the payroll domain from a legacy monolith, delivering a scalable micro-service architecture that enabled faster delivery across product lines. This initiative supported a company-wide goal to deprecate age-old systems, improved team agility and release cadence, and reduced MTTR by 40% and MTTD by 25% through enhanced fault isolation, left-shift testing, observability and alerting.
  • As part of the initiative, partnered with platform services, quality, infrastructure, DBAs, release engineering, and cross-functional teams to define transition plans, align on deployment architecture, and coordinate data migration — ensuring a smooth cutover and long-term scalability.
  • Led the performance strategy and roadmap for core payroll backend services, driving cross-functional collaboration across engineering, product, design, and operations. Improved availability and response times by 30%, enabling the onboarding of more customers onto the platform.
  • Mentored and coached senior and mid-level engineers, supporting their growth into tech leads and managers.
  • Fostered an inclusive and safe environment where engineers felt empowered to share ideas, take ownership, and grow—leading to accelerated team performance and promotion velocity.

Tech Lead/Architect

OpenX Technologies
08.2017 - 12.2018
  • Led backend architecture for scalable data reporting APIs integrated with multiple internal and client-facing systems. Guided design decisions across cloud and data platforms.
  • Introduced a caching layer that improved API response times by ~20%.

Staff Software Engineer — Sr. Software Engineer — Software Engineer

PayPal
10.2007 - 07.2017
  • Acted as a solution architect across product and regulatory initiatives.
  • Designed and delivered config-driven identity verification APIs integrated with mission-critical money movement workflows.
  • Migrated fraud detection logic from a complex monolith to scalable RESTful services—successfully deployed and handling tens of thousands of requests per second.
  • Built a generic monitoring and alerting framework for compliance APIs that proactively resolved issues—recognised by PayPal CTO.
  • Played a key role in compliance-related projects and modernisation initiatives across risk systems.
  • Delivered multiple backend services and platform migrations.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Acharya Nagarjuna University

Skills

  • Microservice architecture
  • Performance optimization
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Mentorship
  • API design
  • Agile methodologies
  • Conflict resolution
  • Change management
  • Strategic planning
  • Technical leadership
  • Data migration
  • Web application development
  • Software development life cycle
  • Continuous deployment
  • Mentoring engineers
  • Problem solving
  • Stakeholder management

Certification

  • ML & GenAI Applications
  • Certified Enterprise Architect TOGAF 9
  • Certified on Hadoop Platform & Application Framework, Big Data Analytics and Machine learning
  • Certified in Service Oriented Architecture

Projects

GenAI SQL Agent 2024, Self-initiated project to stay current with emerging technologies. Designed and built a GenAI-powered SQL Agent using LangChain, OpenAI API, and SQLAlchemy to convert natural language into executable SQL queries. Explored use cases for internal tooling, evaluated model accuracy, and strengthened practical understanding of GenAI integration patterns., GenAI Payroll Anomaly Detection Prototype. 2025, Initiated and led the development of a GenAI-powered payroll anomaly detection prototype using real payroll data, identifying edge-case errors and inconsistencies. The prototype was adopted and formalised into a production initiative, laying the foundation for AI-driven quality improvements across the payroll platform. Tools used: LangChain, Faiss, Deepseek llm & PyOd for ML.

Websites

Awards

Critical Talent Award at Zenefits for driving payroll platform modernisation, Recognised by PayPal CTO for building compliance monitoring solution., 8x Spot Awards for high-impact contributions to PayPal credit, risk, compliance, and migration projects.

Timeline

Sr. Engineering Manager — Engineering Manager — Tech Lead

Trinet Zenefits
01.2019 - Current

Tech Lead/Architect

OpenX Technologies
08.2017 - 12.2018

Staff Software Engineer — Sr. Software Engineer — Software Engineer

PayPal
10.2007 - 07.2017

Master of Science - Computer Science

Acharya Nagarjuna University

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