Pankaj Taneja
Hands-on EM Scaling Teams & Writing Code at GoDaddy
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPankaj Taneja is a hands-on engineering manager and backend engineer with 11 years of experience building payment and security-critical systems across enterprise firms like GoDaddy and Visa. He combines people leadership—scaling teams and mentoring engineers—with day-to-day coding in Java, C++, Node and AWS to deliver robust payments platforms spanning India, China, Europe and the U.S. At Visa he owned decryption and key management for card-present and wallet transactions, including HSM integrations and modern tokenized flows for Apple/Google/Samsung Pay. He has deep domain expertise integrating payment processors and gateways, and a track record of shipping production SDKs and merchant-facing apps. Based in Kirkland, WA, he pairs a practical, user-focused mindset with an MS in Computer Science from Arizona State and a history of mobile and backend engineering dating back to early Apple retail and iOS projects. Colleagues value him for translating complex cryptographic and payments requirements into maintainable, auditable systems while remaining an eager learner.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityBachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at JSS ACADEMY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION, NOIDA
Github Skills (31)
ios10
visa10
payment-service10
authorize10
payment-gateway10
payment-integration10
payment-processing10
payment10
swift10
macos10
objective-c9
payment-methods9
in-app-purchase9
sdk9
square9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ptaneja/Test
Feb 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
AuthorizeNet/inperson-sdk-windows
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
.NET SDK for Windows point-of-sale applications.
Contributions:21 commits, 8 PRs, 61 pushes in 8 months
point-of-saledotnetsalewindowspayment-methods
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