Muhammad Muthuvelu
Senior Staff Software Engineer at PayPal
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Summary
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Top SchoolMuhammad Muthuvelu is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Chennai with nearly a decade of experience building end-to-end, high-scale payment and commerce systems. He has progressed through multiple engineering tiers at PayPal, driving India-specific payment flows, 3DS/CVV support, and migrations of high-traffic legacy services while shaping instrumentation and real-time metrics. Earlier roles at Visa and startups show his full-stack fluency—designing REST APIs, building React-based developer tools and simulators, and owning projects from first line of code to team and workflow setup. He combines deep backend expertise in scalable payments with practical front-end and developer-experience tooling that reduced cross-team dependencies. His GitHub includes a donation-tracking application, reflecting an ongoing hands-on interest in building useful, production-ready projects outside work. Known for pragmatic performance tuning and automation, he consistently turns complex domain requirements into reliable, measurable systems.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications - MCA Computer Science, Master of Computer Applications - MCA Computer Science at University of MadrasBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics at Work Remotely
English, Tamil
Github Skills (2)
banking4
open-banking3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
balasubhramanian/donation-manager
Nov 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:163 commits, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 10 months
balasubhramanian/interview
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:3 PRs, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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