Prasanna Annamalai
Senior Director Of Engineering at PayPal
Tamil Nadu, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPrasanna Annamalai is a senior engineering leader with 13+ years of experience building and scaling payments and platform products across emerging markets, currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering at PayPal. He combines deep technical execution with business strategy—leading PayPal’s India domestic launch, reducing perceived latency by 60–70%, and ramping products globally from market-specific solutions. Prasanna has a track record of bootstrapping teams and cultures from scratch, maintaining 90%+ engagement scores while driving agile delivery across geographically dispersed teams. He also led an innovation group that produced 13 patents in two years and shipped proofs-of-concept that evolved into widely used products like paypal.me. Comfortable at the intersection of product, UX, and infrastructure, he specializes in market entry, growth acceleration, and low-bandwidth/high-latency optimizations. An Executive MBA graduate who teaches and mentors, he blends hands-on engineering with stakeholder management to turn complex constraints into pragmatic, revenue-driving solutions.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA Business Administration and Management General, Executive MBA Business Administration and Management General at UCLA Anderson School of ManagementBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Bharathiar UniversityExecutive MBA Business Administration and Management General, Executive MBA Business Administration and Management General at National University of Singapore
Tamil
Github Skills (43)
paypal10
checkout10
visa10
payment-service10
payment-gateway10
php10
payment-processing10
sdk10
braintree10
payment10
rest-api10
adyen10
square10
java9
payment-methods9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
johna033/rest-api-sample-app-java
Mar 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:2 commits in 4 months
PayPal-Opportunity-Hack-Chennai-2015/Blue-cross-of-India
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 day
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