# Shayanth S.

> Founding Engineer at Highnote

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/shayanth

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Highnote
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Excited to launch a new venture in the virtual issuance and payments space. We are hiring and would love to talk to you if you have a passion for building great products and want to work in an exciting fast-paced environment with smart, driven, ambitious team members. 

Responsible For:
- Compliance
- Risk
- Fulfillment 
- Identity & Identity Verification (KYC / KYB)
- Applications
- Authentication and Authorization
- Agent Servicing and Internal Operation Dashboards
- Tokenization
- Vault (PCI & PII)
- Chargebacks & Disputes
- Card Management / Lifecycle
- HSM (Hardware Security Module)
- Pricing & Fees
- Transfer Controls and Limits
- External Accounts and Payment Methods

Check us out at www.highnote.com

### Staff Software Engineer @ PayPal
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Commerce Foundations. Technical Lead at PayPal and Braintree.

- Unified the Vault for PayPal Inc, bringing together connected experiences for customers across PayPal Inc's various subsidiaries

- Drove identity consolidation initiatives across PayPal's acquisitions

### Senior Software Engineer @ PayPal
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
PayPal Commerce Platform. Full Stack Payment Processing Platform Lead.

Responsible for System Design, Architecture, and Software Development in the Merchant Full Stack Payments Processing Group. 

Full Stack Payment Processing is responsible for Merchant facing APIs to enable our customers to transact across different types of payment methods, both online and in-store. This group is also responsible for providing platform capabilities to process Card, Bank, PayPal, and Local Payment Methods.

### Senior Software Engineer @ PayPal
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
PayPal Commerce Platform. Value Added Services.
 
• Designing a scalable approach to vault and tokenize traditional and alternative payment methods

• Developing unique solutions for both mobile and web based payment processing.

### Software Engineer @ PayPal
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Partners and Marketplaces. Partner Onboarding Engineering.  

 • Streamlined the Partner Onboarding and Integration Process
 • Created a Partner onboarding flow that allowed PayPal for Partners to scale beyond their Pilot phase.
 • Modularized on a per feature basis, such that framework scales with little developer interaction
 • Architected component structure to allow micro-service spinoff of individual components in the future

### Software Engineering Intern @ PayPal
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Jose, CA
Intern Engineer in Partners and Marketplaces Seller Onboarding

• Developed merchant facing service built on Java Spring Framework to allow closure of large volume of accounts
• Pushed PayPal’s pilot Spring Batch Framework Service to live and created new resources for future developers
• Programmed Internal Monitor Tool built on MongoDB and Node.Js that is currently being used to monitor new merchants accounts 
• Managed team of three interns to develop first merchant onboarding RESTified account closure endpoint for PayPal

### Vice President, Social Chair, House Manager, Fundraising Chairman @ Chi Phi Fraternity
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
• Raised approximately 5,000 dollars for capital improvements, which included spearheading a kitchen renovation
• Organized, developed, and distributed agendas to chapter members to regulate the upkeep of the house
• Established connections with RedBull and Monster Beverage Company, which delivered products for events

### Vertical Solutions Software Engineer Intern @ PayPal
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | 2211 North First Street
Intern Engineer in Vertical Solutions and Experiment Team. 

• Mobile Development on iOS PayPal Application.
• Working on PayPal C++ Foundation to improve Merchant Notification of Billing Agreements
• Integrated PayPal iOS Application with large corporation partners
• Wrapped iOS PayPal Application in a new SDK for RESTful API calls that third-party developers can use as an external development platform

### Sound and Vision Lab @ University of Miami
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012
Advised by Shahriar Negahdaripour. 
 
• Published two academic research papers for the OCEANS/Kona Conference 2011 held in Hawaii
• Developed an image-pair matching sequence to distinguish movement in a sequence of images used in a stereo frame grabber
• Researched and developed programs for Remotely Operated Vehicles


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Gulliver Preparatory


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ssinnarajah

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Last updated: 2026-04-10