# Amish Gandhi > Engineering Leader ex-PayPal | CTO | Entrepreneur Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/amishgandhi Results driven engineering leader with 20+ years of experience in architecting, developing and managing low latency mission critical software solutions. Diverse background in a variety of consumer and enterprise applications with ability to build and deliver scalable solutions from inception to completion using latest technology stack. • Full stack engineer experienced in building applications using Java, Spring, SQL/NoSQL databases, and JavaScript. • Ability to lead small Engineering and QA teams to build successful innovative products. Strong analytical and debugging skills enabling writing concise code and troubleshooting hard to find issues. • Interested in learning new technologies exploring all avenues related to cryptography and security. SPECIALTIES: Java, Security, Algorithms, Concurrency, Data Structures, Big Data. SKILLS: Languages: Java, JavaScript, Perl/Shell, XML Technologies: J2EE, EJB, Hibernate, NoSQL, Servlet, JDBC, JMS, JNDI, Swing, Java Mail, Web Services, AJAX, GWT/GXT/Ext-JS, XML, JavaScript/jQuery/JSON/Jackson, SOAP, JSP/DHTML, JFreeChart Servers: Tomcat 8, Apache/Jetty, JBoss 6.x, Weblogic Tools: IntelliJ, Eclipse, Git, SVN, Ant/Maven, UML, JUnit, MS-Project, JIRA/Radar, Crucible, Clearcase DB: MongoDB 3.x, MySQL 5x, Oracle 11g, DB2, Sybase, SybaseIQ OS: Mac, Linux, Windows, Solaris, HP-UX Profiler: JProfiler, Firebug, Wireshark Framework: Spring, MVC, JUnit, GUICE ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Intuit Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States ### Board Member @ DropSecure Jan 2022 – Present ### Founder & CEO @ DropSecure Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area DropSecure is an end-to-end encrypted secure platform to exchange and store all your confidential data. At DropSecure, we provide the highest privacy possible such as Signal/IMessage but without requiring all the users to register and download any apps. Managed all facets of Enterprise including Product Development, Sales and Marketing. Grew revenue by 300% within a year. Received Rising Startup and Best Ease of Use awards in 2021 from Gartner Research. ### Principal Engineer @ Highnote Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ PayPal Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ PayPal Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | United States Worked with an amazing group of engineers to build a highly scalable and performant framework for Xoom's micro services based architecture. Architect and lead various infrastructure improvements and features built on top of spring-boot framework. Hundreds of micro services used the common framework for low latency caching, OAuth token management, security, logging, metrics and much more. Technologies include - java, spring-boot, redis, mysql, cassandra, docker, SAML/OAuth. ### Founder | CTO @ Stealth Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Jose, California, United States Engineered and developed patent pending zero-knowledge file transfer platform which allows anyone to share and store documents with highest security. Started the product development from scratch, built the POC to exchange data with AES-256 encryption and protect the AES-256 keys with patent-pending key exchange mechanisms using combination of symmetric and asymmetric encryption. ### Senior Staff Engineer @ Dell Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 Design and development for Mobility Management product. Providing technical expertise and solving integration challenges for Single Sign On and other aspects of user security. ### Senior Staff Engineer @ Aeris Communications Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area Part of fast paced engineering team address all sort of challenges in managing end to end services for Aeris devices. Responsible for delivering new functionality right from specifying requirements to product delivery and support. ### Principal Software Consultant @ Apple Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Cupertino, CA Member of the POS Retail Team responsible for managing the POS devices and their payment system globally for all apple stores. Some of the projects include implementing check reader system for US region and certifying the credit card payment systems. ### Senior Software Analyst - Regulatory Operations @ Goldman Sachs Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 Evaluated and recommended the use of REST services which was presented to the CTO and led to the nomination into WebServices Infrastructure Group. Implemented innovative and state of the art infrastructure to provide resiliency and active-active load balancing for the data store using Java and DB2. This system saved more than million dollars in hardware and software licensing costs, which would otherwise be needed to provide a resilient/fail safe data store. ### Senior Programmer @ UBS Investment Bank Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 Designed an innovative parser engine to search and index the fax notices on selected keywords by converting fax images into text using Adlib OCR, parsing the text, and storing it in Documentum. The cataloging solution used pattern-matching algorithms written utilizing Java regex, XML templates and OCR software to overcome the inaccuracies of a scanned document. ## Education ### Masters in Computer science RPI at Work ### BS in Computer Science Marist University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/amishgandhi --- Source: https://flows.cv/amishgandhi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/amishgandhi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12