Shu Ashar
Senior Software Development Manager at Venmo
Campbell, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShu Ashar is a Senior Software Development Manager based in Campbell, California with 15+ years of engineering leadership and a decade of hands-on experience building mobile and payment SDKs for companies like PayPal, Braintree and Venmo. He specializes in shipping in-person payment solutions and SDKs from V1 to V2, leading cross-functional teams that span iOS, Android, web SDKs and backend services. Known for blending engineering craft with people management, he drives quality-at-scale through automation, greenfield design work (0-to-1 Reader Management Service) and developer empathy. Shu’s background includes architecting cloud developer environments at Microsoft and teaching enterprise software topics at San José State University, reflecting a mix of practical product delivery and academic curiosity. He’s comfortable wearing many hats—engineer, manager, architect and inventor—and has a hobbyist history of shipping consumer apps like DualCamPhoto. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, Shu repeatedly turns complex payment and infrastructure requirements into reliable, developer-friendly products.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MS Software Engineering, MS Software Engineering at San José State UniversityFravashiBE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at College of Engineering, PravanagarBE Computer Engineering, BE Computer Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University
Github Skills (36)
visa10
insert10
mastercard10
storekit10
credit-card10
payment-processing10
android-app10
payment10
in-app-purchase10
credit10
receipt-validation10
adyen10
square10
integrate9
paypal9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
snehanshuashar/paypal-retail-node
Aug 2015 - Nov 2021
A module and midtier server to help integrate mobile applications with the PayPal Retail SDK
Contributions:16 PRs, 42 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 4 months
sdkpaypalpaymentintegrateretail
codereviewcache/DisableApplePay
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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