Summary
Rohit Turumella is a product-led founder and seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building high-scale commerce and payments platforms at Braintree, PayPal, and Instacart. He specializes in bridging consumer experiences and enterprise systems—owning core transaction infrastructure, retailer integrations, and AI/ML-driven products that delivered over $500M in financial impact and multiple patents. Rohit helped launch PayPal in India by relocating to Mumbai to design regulator-compliant checkout flows, led Instacart initiatives that unlocked $650M+ GMV and $250M+ in cost savings, and grew Braintree’s contextual commerce line to $50M in payments volume. As a solo founder at RoyaltyPilot he combines product, engineering, and sales to simplify multi-channel royalty operations, with early customers saving up to $25K annually. He’s comfortable defining ambiguous problem spaces, writing the investment cases to fund them, and operationalizing solutions end-to-end.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
English, French, Telugu