Raj Lad
Co-Founder at Sphere Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRaj Lad is a fintech-focused engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building and scaling payments and crypto infrastructure from San Francisco. As Co-Founder of Infinite and former Tech Lead for Sardine’s payments arm, he has shipped high-throughput products handling millions daily, including fiat-crypto on-ramps, NFT checkout, and global payouts. He blends hands-on backend and infra expertise with product instincts, having driven fintech features across creator monetization platforms and payment engines. An advisor to Sphere Labs and a YC alumnus, Raj pairs startup grit with a strong Waterloo engineering foundation. Notably, his career arc emphasizes operationalizing complex payment flows into reliable, production-grade systems rather than just prototyping.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (6)
react-wrapper4
react2
bootstrap2
bootstrap-daterangepicker2
datepicker2
daterangepicker1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
michaelsru/VisionVest
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
ShahzaibGill/ShahzaibGill.github.io
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 month
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