Mahesh Paolini-subramanya
Chief Technology Officer at BKN301
Austin, Texas, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolMahesh Paolini-subramanya is a veteran technology executive and CTO with 14+ years of senior leadership experience scaling product-driven engineering organizations across FinTech, payments, crypto, networking and telco. He currently leads BKN301’s global engineering organization building cloud-native Banking-as-a-Service platforms spanning issuing, acquiring, payments and core banking integrations, having previously scaled Klar and BlockFi from small teams to hundreds of engineers and multi‑product platforms. Known for turning nascent technologies into market-leading products, he helped grow Factom from a sub-$10M market cap to over $500M and was instrumental in BlockFi’s rapid ascent to a $4B valuation. Comfortable across polyglot stacks and distributed teams, he combines hands-on systems design with end‑to‑end product delivery—often in regulated, PCI/AML-sensitive environments. A prolific conference speaker and early adopter of Java, Erlang and web-era systems, he brings rare cross-domain depth from building one of the first e-commerce systems to modern cloud-native banking. Based in Austin with roots in IIT Kanpur and Notre Dame, he balances technical rigor with pragmatic scaling playbooks for global, remote engineering teams.
14 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurKendriya Vidyalaya SangathanM.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Notre Dame
English, Kannada, Hindi, erlang, Italian
Github Skills (134)
container-management10
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python10
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harbor10
elasticsearch10
ssh10
ansible10
search-engine10
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bitcoin10
java10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dieswaytoofast/erlang_cassandra
Aug 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:27 commits in 4 months
erlangcassandrathrift
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