Piyush Poddar is a founder and experienced software engineer based in New York with 12 years building large-scale systems across startups and tech giants. He rebuilt Stripe’s discounting and tax APIs as a Senior Full-Stack Engineer and previously engineered low-latency, large-scale recommender systems for YouTube at Google. Combining a biomedical engineering background from Johns Hopkins with product-focused leadership, he has taken hardware prototypes to market success earlier in his career, including patented medical devices. At Affordably he now applies platform and payments expertise to help companies monetize digital goods and services, while remaining an active member of the South Park Commons community. Known for shipping pragmatic, well-tested APIs and systems, he bridges deep backend engineering with founder-level product intuition.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Valedictorian, Valedictorian at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South
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