Laxmikant Sharma
SAN RAMON
Summary
Adapt at building, retaining, leading highly performant teams, professionals and managing cross functional, cross geography teams in Developer Experience (Internal, External) and Merchant Engineering space.
Excellent problem solver with the ability to deliver on multiple fronts. Skilled at building diverse category of impactful products at scale.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering Leader (Merchant API and Sandbox Excellence)
PayPal Inc
09.2021 - Current
- Spearheaded the transformation of PayPal’s developer experience by building and scaling high-impact, next-generation teams within API Excellence and Merchant Sandbox Engineering.
- Championed the development and deployment of an AI/ML-driven, interconnected tooling framework that streamlines search, discovery, and frictionless integration, significantly enhancing developer and merchant engagement with PayPal’s products and services.
- Established and enforced standards for PayPal Public REST APIs, elevating the quality and reliability through governance and comprehensive tooling solutions, supporting 20+ million daily merchant transactions across 18 Public REST APIs, serving over 25 million merchants globally.
- Optimized the sandbox environment by implementing advanced monitoring and alerting mechanisms, ensuring a 99.99% reliability rate and empowering teams to deliver continuous, high-quality service improvements.
- Tech stack: Multiple languages (Golang, Java, NodeJS, Python etc.), frameworks (Spring Boot, CLI, MYSQL, NoSQL etc), platforms (Unix, Ubuntu, Windows) and tools
Sr. Manager (Developer Ecosystem and Infrastructure)
PayPal Inc
04.2017 - Current
- Hired, mentored and coached engineers and leaders in for PayPal Developer Experience Org serving 15000+ developers.
- Led engineering teams to design, develop, and manage comprehensive SDLC frameworks—including testing, building, deployment and release processes—for PayPal's internal developer ecosystem.
- Managed public cloud engagement with highly optimized and efficient operations for all development environments
- Managed dev environments with scale of 2 Billions of transactions per day supporting 10000+ developers with thousands of microservices deployments, auto remediation, scaling and infrastructure
- Supporting PayPal merchants and partners integration infrastructure
- Developing tooling for complete SDLC for infrastructure products (e.g Artifact repo management, CI/CD, security vulnerability management etc.)
- Defining and implementing Incident, problem and change management processes
- Vendor management for build versus buy and alternative workforce management
- Tech stack: Multiple languages (Golang, Java, Python etc.), frameworks (Spring Boot, Kafka, Zookeeper, Elastic stack, MYSQL, NoSQL etc), platforms (Unix, Ubuntu, Windows, GCP) and tools
Manager (Reliability Engineering)
PayPal Inc
11.2015 - 04.2017
- Filed and granted patent : Automated, adaptive, and auto-remediating system for production environment (https://uspto.report/patent/grant/11,126,494)
- Leading and working on reliability, monitoring and quality aspects of one of the largest private Cloud implementation based on OpenStack
- Building reliability, release and quality infrastructure teams and practices in different areas of PaaS (Platform as a Service) and developer experience
- Implementing automated CI/CD tooling with Jenkins, Blue Ocean and Spinnaker
- Developing reliability, quality and open source culture in building automation, test infrastructure and end to end build pipelines
- Tech stack: Multiple languages (Java, Python etc.), frameworks (Spring Boot, Django, Elastic stack, MYSQL, NoSQL etc), platforms (Unix, Ubuntu, Windows, GCP) and tools
Manager (Release, Reliability and Quality Engg)
Ebay Inc
07.2008 - 10.2015
- Filed and granted patent: Methods and Systems for creating software tests as executable resources (https://patents.justia.com/patent/20130055028)
- Building and leading release, reliability and quality engineering teams for tech platforms and frameworks
- Co-ordinating complex and cross functional domain platform and framework project releases
- Leading tools and test framework development teams and building test tools and frameworks
- Leading and managing quality efforts of next generation platform and frameworks
- Developing and streamlining continuous integration strategy via CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, SONAR etc
- Guiding platform and domain teams for better PDLC including SCM branching, testing, tools, metrics and releases
- Tech stack : Java, JavaScript, Spring Boot, REST services, CI/CD, build and testing tools
Senior Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2007 - 07.2008
- Developed POCs and suggesting designs for various components of Etrade Equity Online platform
- Developed software components in advanced java concepts, spring, hibernate, XML, JavaScript and AJAX along with Oracle RDBMS, creating views, tables etc
- Designing and coding web services and their client side code
- Tech stack : Java, Struts, Hibernate, Spring, Web Services, JUnit, TestNG, XACML, ORACLE
Tech Lead (USA, Australia & India)
Tech Mahindra
07.2004 - 08.2007
- Worked for telecom domain clients (AT&T, Alcatel) to implement technical products
- Developed a web service based platform for AT&T to interface with Alcatel, Lucent Tech and Ericsson to implement value add services for users devices
- Developed Alcatel product to interface with Lucent Tech for network element provisioning
- Tech stack : Java, J2EE (EJB, Java Beans, JDBC, RMI, Servlets etc.) CORBA, ORACLE, PL/SQL
Software Engineer
Wipro Techology
06.2002 - 02.2004
- Worked for Nortel Networks products in telecom domain for following products for network elements over NMS/EMS (Tech stack C, C++ over Unix):
- Fault Management
- Configuration and Connection Management
- Traffic Display of network elements
- Protection Switching Management
Education
Stanford Certificate of Project Management - Project management online certificate
Stanford University
San Jose, CA03.2011
Electrical Engineering - undefined
NIT (National Institute of Technology)
Jaipur, Rajasthan06.2001
Skills
Enabler, Leadership, Team Building, Developer Experience (Internal, External), AI products, Cloud Platforms, Full Stack, SaaS, Infrastructure as a Service
Timeline
Engineering Leader (Merchant API and Sandbox Excellence)
PayPal Inc
09.2021 - Current
Sr. Manager (Developer Ecosystem and Infrastructure)
PayPal Inc
04.2017 - Current
Manager (Reliability Engineering)
PayPal Inc
11.2015 - 04.2017
Manager (Release, Reliability and Quality Engg)
Ebay Inc
07.2008 - 10.2015
Senior Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2007 - 07.2008
Tech Lead (USA, Australia & India)
Tech Mahindra
07.2004 - 08.2007
Software Engineer
Wipro Techology
06.2002 - 02.2004
Electrical Engineering - undefined
NIT (National Institute of Technology)
Stanford Certificate of Project Management - Project management online certificate
Stanford University
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