Abhishek Purohit
Senior Engineering Manager at PayPal
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbhishek Purohit is a Senior Engineering Leader based in San Jose with 9 years in senior roles and a 20+ year engineering career focused on cloud-native platforms, messaging, security, and GenAI. He currently leads PayPal’s enterprise Messaging and GenAI platforms that handle 2B+ customer conversations annually, drove Messaging throughput sixfold, and delivered multimillion-dollar savings and recovery through platform consolidation and AI-driven automation. Known for translating business strategy into scalable platform roadmaps, he blends platform architecture and operational excellence with customer-centric delivery and regulatory alignment. His open-source contributions to projects like Apache Ozone and Hortonworks Cloudbreak reflect deep backend and security experience—adding identity, certificate, and user-sync capabilities at scale. A mentor and builder of distributed teams, he pairs Stanford NLP/AI coursework with hands-on productization of FreeIPA and real-time streaming systems, bringing uncommon depth in both security and conversational AI engineering.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Artificial Intelligence Professional Program, Artificial Intelligence Professional Program at StanfordMaster's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya (DAVV), IndoreExecutive Presence and Influence: Persuasive Leadership Development, Executive Presence and Influence: Persuasive Leadership Development at Wharton & Co. LLCMaster of Computer Applications, Software Engineering, Master of Computer Applications, Software Engineering at D.A.V. University, Indore, IndiaProfessional Course in AI, Artificial Intelligence, Professional Course in AI, Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
Github Skills (19)
cert10
back-end-development10
hadoop10
java10
security10
javas10
certificate10
object-store10
sql10
freeipa10
x50910
database-design10
cloud-computing9
big-data9
cloudera9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hortonworks/cloudbreak
May 2019 - Oct 2019
CDP Public Cloud is an integrated analytics and data management platform deployed on cloud services. It offers broad data analytics and artificial intelligence functionality along with secure user access and data governance features.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 32 PRs, 84 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Abhishek's commits primarily focused on modifying FreeIPA-related code within the `hortonworks/cloudbreak` repository. Their contributions involved adding and modifying database schemas, specifically related to adding an `accountid` and `tenant` column to the stack table. They also modified backend Java code to integrate the new `accountid` and `tenant` fields, and to implement user and group synchronization with UMS. The user made changes to the password and user management services and their interaction with UMS.
data-management-platformcdp-public-cloudsecurecloud-servicesdata-management
apache/ozone
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Scalable, reliable, distributed storage system optimized for data analytics and object store workloads.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 18 PRs, 11 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Abhishek contributed significantly to the Apache Ozone project by implementing and refining core backend functionalities related to certificate management and security. They focused on enhancing the Certificate Signing Request (CSR) process by adding support for service names within the OpenStack Swift context. Further work included refactoring and optimizing existing code, specifically removing unnecessary `toString()` calls in logging statements and removing unused fields within the XceiverClientGrpc. The user's contributions also involved refactoring return types and conditional logic for improved code clarity and efficiency.
scalableredundantapachebig-dataspark
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