Ragini Sharma is a Senior Engineering Manager with 9 years of experience leading teams that build high-volume, low-latency payments platforms across PayPal, Venmo, and SoFi. She excels at scaling distributed backend systems, having driven initiatives like self-acquiring merchant capabilities, data model vertical splits, and cache/document migration to improve latency and throughput. A hands-on coach and mentor, she balances technical depth with people leadership—growing teams, setting roadmaps, and embedding measurable OKRs to boost execution velocity. Her background includes designing payments integrations with major banks and global processors, and optimizing routing and settlement flows for real-time products like Venmo direct deposit. Based in the New York City area, she pairs a Master’s in Computer Science with executive programs at Berkeley, Cornell, and Wharton, signaling a strong mix of technical rigor and strategic leadership. Notably, she maintains a close connection to implementation details even while operating at senior management scope, ensuring solutions are both visionary and operationally sound.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Arizona State University
Technology Leadership Technology leadership, Technology Leadership Technology leadership at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
CTO program Technology, CTO program Technology at Wharton Executive Education
Critical Thinking Computer Science, Critical Thinking Computer Science at Cornell University
Contributions:4 PRs, 44 pushes, 11 branches in 11 months
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Ragini Sharma - Senior Engineering Manager at SoFi