Engineering Leader | Executive
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A seasoned and accomplished technology leader who feels passionate about working with people (at all levels and roles - engineer, product, data, C-suite executives) and take on both technical and organizational challenges. For past over 8 years, working as VP, Engineering with LendingClub - a FinTech leader and pioneer in the p2p lending marketplace.
As Vice President of Engineering at LendingClub, I built and led a global technology team of 70+ software engineers, architects, managers, and directors—while working across the organization to define corporate strategies, priorities, and resource allocation. A core strength of my organization is a customer-first culture that drives corporate and client growth. My teams have a reputation for collaboration—not only with each other, but across business units that span Business, Product, Data Science, Operations, and Design.
▪ Leading LendingClub’s system back-end integrations with multiple partners and vendors that included Experian, TransUnion, LendingTree, Credit Karma, Shaw, FIS, Five9, and Fiserv.
▪ Assuming full leadership to course-correct and successfully deliver the company’s largest ever technology project—a $25M+ loan servicing initiative that included a transfer of nearly 2M loans from in-house to a 3rd-party vendor.
▪ Delivering a highly scalable microservice platform that prepared the company for the next stage of business growth.
▪ Partnering with other engineering leaders to successfully drive the entire infrastructure migration to AWS cloud.
▪ Serving as a founding member of my company’s Auction Trading Platform, which yielded 50 bps higher than those on a non-LCX platform—and drove ~$1B in revenue growth.
Global technology leader with 24+ years of progressive experience – in startups and public organizations - and a record of delivering robust IT solutions across various business domains that primarily includes fintech (lending marketplace), banking, and healthcare. Cultivate highly collaborative cultures and build high-performing teams that deliver world-class products and historic system migrations across cloud, web, and mobile technologies. Accelerate business results while ensuring platform architecture is scalable, reliable, and secure.
∎ Customer-first design thinker known for building, developing, and inspiring several coordinated teams to deliver simultaneous projects seamlessly while navigating multiple priorities and timelines.
∎ Data-driven decision maker who partners closely with Product, Business, Data Science, Operations, Design, and other Engineering leaders to develop and deliver complex and scalable consumer and enterprise products and services.
∎ Trusted C-Suite advisor who plays a pivotal role in driving overall technical vision and corporate messaging.
Post-graduated in Computer Science as major from Gujarat University in India.
