# Kalyan Narasimhan > Staff Software Engineer at Robinhood | Ex - Earnin, PayPal, eBay Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kalyannarasimhan Full Stack Engineer focussed on delivering large scale, distributed and high quality software. Specialities: FinTech; Payments; Mobile; Risk; Back-end engineering; Fluent in Java, C# and Kotlin; Proficient in Android development. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Robinhood Jan 2022 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States - Tech Lead for the Money movement team (Jan 2022 - Jan 2023) - Tech Lead for the Customer Trust & Safety platform (Feb 2023 - July 2024) - Tech Lead for the Growth Org (Aug 2024 - present) ### Staff Software Engineer @ Earnin Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California - Tech Lead for the Risk and Monetization platform. - Worked closely with Leadership, Data Scientists and Risk analysts to design and develop risk-related business flows and experiments. - Led the migration of Earnin’s core components from a monolith to microservices based architecture. ### MTS 2, Software Engineer @ PayPal Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Lead and Architect for the Next-Gen Wallet Platform. ### MTS 1, Software Engineer @ PayPal Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area - Lead and Full Stack Engineer developing highly scalable orchestration services, Client SDK and PayPal Consumer app experience for Android. - Lead Architect and developer for the integration of PayPal as a funding source in Android Pay wallet using the PayPal Consumer app for Android. Worked closely with Google on all client integrations and led the end to end development of the project. - Designed and developed several core capabilities of PayPal’s Mobile Platform. ### Software Engineer 3 @ PayPal Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 - Developing Consumer App experience APIs that are orchestrated/customized for Mobile App experience by working with various downstream x-functional core service teams. - As a Full stack developer, contributed to various features such as Push notifications, Send/Request Money, Compliance and Authentication flows for the newly designed PayPal consumer App. - Designed and developed the backend for enabling users to login via TouchID on the PayPal Consumer app for iOS. - Led efforts in design and development of the authentication platform for PayPal's newly designed Consumer app for Android. - Implemented the end to end flow for enabling PayPal's One Touch experience on the Consumer App for Android. PayPal's One Touch enables faster checkout experience. ### Software Engineer 3 @ PayPal Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Member of the Consumer Wallet Team As part of the initiative to move away from proprietary tech stack within PayPal to Node.js and DUST templating, I developed several server side JavaScript modules (using Node.js) for the Next- Gen PayPal Wallet UI. ### Software Engineer 2 @ PayPal Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Chennai Member of the Consumer Wallet Team Developing REST Services and client applications that allow users to make a digital copy of their wallet. Developed services for handling Financial Instruments, Artifacts, Reward Programs and User activities. ### Software Engineer @ eBay Marketplaces Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Core member of the Kernel and Asset Repository Team. 1) Worked on several critical features such as Configuration Bean management, enabling cross origin resource sharing and other enhancements for the eBay Kernel on top of which eBay.com is built. 2) Asset Repository – A tool for the governance of all kinds of assets created in eBay that include services, consumers, deliverables etc. - Designed and developed key features of the backend that is based on Mongo DB. The backend APIs are exposed via REST services. - Developed REST APIs to handle CRUD operations related to various asset types. - Designed and implemented the security model for all the REST resources. ### Co - Founder @ com.apv Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 Freelance Mobile application development.Designed and developed various modules for an international client R & B Jones and Associates, Marietta Georgia. ### Intern @ eBay Marketplaces Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 Member of the Mobile platform team. 1) Was Instrumental in bringing the mobile application perspective to the team. 2) Worked on the following key features in the eBay App for Android - Instant Search - Real Time Bidding - Mobile Payments for eBay India o Push Notifications 3) Wrote the persistence layer of DART (Dependency Audit Response Tracker) - a tool for monitoring the health of all eBay mobile services. Also automated the process of health analysis and reporting. ### Intern @ Interchain Solutions Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Bangalore 1) Member of the team that was involved in the development of Trackut, which is a location based social networking platform for Android and Symbian phones. 2) Worked on GWNavigator which is a handheld data collection solution built on Android. Developed key features like Wi-Fi support, Navigation, Tracking, Area calculation, POIs. 3) Generated real time maps from raw geo-spatial data using GeoServer. ### Intern @ Covansys Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 eTrack is an internal tool for tracking and reporting the progress of a project, employee task status.Developed using ASP.net and Oracle 10g. ## Education ### M.Sc Software Engineering in Software PSG College of Technology ### Primary in Middle and High School The Hindu Senior Secondary School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kalyansimhan --- Source: https://flows.cv/kalyannarasimhan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kalyannarasimhan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12