Vijay Gupta
Global Head Of Technical Program Management - Payments, Risk, Identity, Compliance, & FinProd at Uber
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolVijay Gupta is an engineering-driven technical program management leader with 11 years of experience scaling large, cross-functional payments, risk, identity, compliance, and financial-product organizations. As Uber’s Global Head of TPM, he orchestrates delivery across 700+ engineers, product managers, and data scientists to process tens of billions in transactions while improving trust, conversions, and margins through ML-driven fraud prevention, smart routing, and unified commerce primitives. Previously he led payments platform programs at Google and built marketing and ECM engineering organizations for Macy’s and Disney, blending deep architecture chops with program and people leadership. Vijay’s background in enterprise content management and systems architecture gives him a rare combination of transaction-scale commerce expertise and hands-on platform design experience. He pairs technical rigor (TOGAF, Scrum, ITIL) and analytics training from Wharton with a mechanical engineering and design engineering foundation from NIT Raipur and IIT Delhi. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic executor who surfaces risk early and turns complex, multi-year initiatives into predictable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)Certificate, Business Analytics Specialization, Certificate, Business Analytics Specialization at University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton SchoolHigh School and Higher Secondary School, Math, Science, Social Studies, Language, High School and Higher Secondary School, Math, Science, Social Studies, Language at Loyola SchoolBachelor of Engineering (BS), Mechanical Engineering, Honors, Bachelor of Engineering (BS), Mechanical Engineering, Honors at National Institute of Technology Raipur
English, Hindi
Github Skills (76)
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utilization10
cassandra10
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database9
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suspend9
migration9
sling9
java9
gateway9
osgi9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vargup/dcos-cassandra-service
Oct 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:44 pushes, 14 branches in 4 months
cassandradcosapacheapache-cassandrajava
varungup90/aibrix
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
Cost-efficient and pluggable Infrastructure components for GenAI inference
Contributions:64 pushes, 21 branches in 1 month
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