Siddartha Posam@siddarthaposam
 Product Manager, PayPal Inc
  siddartha18@ gmail.com    Austin, Keep Austin Weird!    Baltimore, The greatest city in America!
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About me.

I'm a software engineer/product manager and have developed a deep sense of empathy for what the customer needs are. To me technology is more than just developing great software and hardware, it is about adding value and helping people.

Skills: C, Java, Javascript, NodeJS, Python, MATLAB, golang, shell scripting and all other cool stuff that is out there.

Work.

PayPal
Product Manager

Helping Democratize Financial Services

I work hard so that our customers experience delightful products.
  • Technology Leadership Program Cohort -
    1. TLP Rotation 1 (Business Development): • Designed and implemented the outreach program for our banking partners which will reduce the amount of manual effort significantly. • Provided insights into the open banking data to potentially optimize costs and improve conversion rates.
    2. TLP Rotation 2 (Enterprise Sales and GMS): • Engagement Manager to complex integration with a LE merchant • Helping the enterprise sales team to reduce the manual work by improving the salesforce tooling.
  • Product Manager - Helping build a robust and product agnostic credit platform.
  • Credit infrastructure engineer - Our team Built the test libraries, and managed devops for the credit platform.
  • Test lead
    Main projects:
      - Asset Lite
      - Australia Credit product
      - Global Credit Expansion - PayPal
  • Acted as a bridge between Product, development, program management and legal teams.
  • Significantly reduced testing period using automation.


    Multiple Spot Award - For taking ownership and helping the team in finishing projects under a tight timeline.
    Promotion - For contributions to several key initiatives, helping with automation strategy, finding critical bugs and helping with product investigation.
    Travel (Pre-covid)
        * Visited PayPal San Jose office multiple times to work
           on initiatives critical for Credit.
        * Visited PayPal Germany office to help launch DE
           installments product.
        * Visited PayPal Chennai office to train new team
            members.
        * Visited Australia during development phase of
           co-branded partnership product.

Education.

Harvard Business School Online
HBX CORe Certificate

Getting my feet wet in the world of business

Developed business intuition by understanding essential business concepts and problem solving skills.
Took this online certification to understand how economics and finance work. I can probably look at the financial statement or earnings report of a company and figure out how the company is making or spending money.
University of Memphis
Master's degree in Computer Engineering

Into the world of Intelligence

* Graduate research assistant in Institute for Intelligent Systems.
* Graduate assistant in Fogelman College of Business.
* Projects included building neural nets, recommendation
   systems
* Certificate in Imaging and Signal Processing.

My first country away from home. For better or worse, these 2 years were the most impactful in my life. Had my first paying job, learnt to live independently. Also, did research in Machine learning, AI and cognitive science.
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering

Understanding Hardware and Software interactions

* Built a WiFi enabled prototype using ARM microcontrollers.
* Secured an In-plant training certificate from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and saw up-close on how military equipment (Jet aircrafts and helicopters) are designed and tested.

I loved playing around with electronics devices and learnt how to apply science and mathematics to practical problems in the field of electronics and communications!

Travel.