Abhishek Purohit
Summary
Director-level engineering leader with 20+ years of experience building and scaling large, mission-critical platforms across fintech, AI-driven customer experiences, cloud infrastructure, and security. Proven track record of leading multi-team organizations, modernizing legacy systems, delivering multi-million-dollar business impact, and partnering with executives across Product, Legal, Compliance, and Operations. Experienced in running platforms processing billions of customer interactions annually while driving engineering health, reliability, and talent development at scale.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr Manager
PayPal
09.2020 - Current
- Enabled PayPal Messaging Platform for LLM Based customer interaction.
- Led multiple cross domain teams and took ownership of end-to-end execution and delivery with milestones.
- Collaborating closely with other teams for dependencies, development teams (and managers), Product Owners, UI designers, Operations etc. to help continuous improvement of the architecture, tools, and processes.
- Driving multiple teams for enabling PayPal Inc.’s customers to communicate in safe, secure and trusted manner.
- Responsible for end-to-end execution and delivery for the Messaging Platform, Architecture, & implementation.
- Managing engineering development, resource allocation and complex release schedule across the board.
- Monitoring and reviewing the code written by team developers, mentoring, and training junior developers.
Sr. Dev Manager - Distributed Systems and Cloud Platform
Cloudera
09.2018 - 05.2020
- Built and managed geographically dispersed team of 8-10 engineers to design and develop the FreeIPA Management Service which was to enable identity and security for workload clusters and consumed by all Big Data services e.g., Ranger, Cloudera Manager, HIVE Meta-store etc.
- Spearheaded the research and development of FreeIPA Open-Source System and provided a viable solution which then was adopted as a full-fledged product in Cloudera Data Platform.
- Drove Architecture for the Cloud Services related to identity and security for workload clusters.
- Worked on Hadoop Security using Kerberos and FreeIPA for CDP (Cloudera Data Platform).
- Actively involved in understanding customer pain points and enhancing capabilities of the service to address customer needs.
- Worked with site-reliability and operations for orchestration of services with HA for deployment on Control Plane.
- Led the efforts related to integrating AD (Active Directory) integration with cluster for cross realm support (one way and two way) for Clouds and on prem.
- Tech Stack: JAVA, Python, FreeIPA, AWS (EC2, Cloudformation templating, Lambda Functions), Terraform and Hadoop stack.
Principal MTS - Cloud Infrastructure
Salesforce
10.2016 - 09.2018
- As part of the SDS Team in Security Infra, our team was owning Network ACLs in Data Centers.
- I led the initiative to solve this tedious problem by streamlining and automating the entire workflow of the ACL approval process.
- Tech Stack: Python, ReactJS, GIT Hub.
Engineering Director - Data Monitoring and Analytics
Composure.ai
10.2015 - 10.2016
- Early stage startup with vision to develop products related to customer’s cloud payloads.
- My team & I developed services related to Cloud Orchestration and Provisioning, Connectivity, Monitoring.
- Worked with founders, built different teams of engineers, streamlined best practices for software development and engineering.
- Tech Stack: JAVA, Python, REDIS, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, Docker, Sensu, Graphite.
Sr. Dev Manager - P2P Borrower’s Platform
Lending Club
02.2014 - 10.2015
- My very first project as a Sr. Manager of my engineering team was to strengthen the security and standardize the processes across the company.
- My team & I came up with a POC using SafeNet Appliance (used for storing all secure artifacts) that later on became an important infrastructure service for security.
- Managed team to design and develop Crypto Service which was an abstraction on SafeNet Appliance.
- Tech Stack: JAVA, String Boot, Spring Batch, SafeNet, Oracle RDBMS.
MTS
PayPal and Ebay
09.2007 - 02.2014
- This service was to enable business for set top boxes where the certificate environment was limited for local encryption.
- Developed component acted as PEP – Policy Enforcement Point for authorization.
- Lead Developer of batch applications in a risk analytics environment.
- Tech Stack: JAVA, Apache CXF and Spring framework.
Sr. Software Engineer
Cognizant (CTS)
01.2000 - 08.2007
- Client: GE Power Systems, Orbitz LLC Chicago.
Education
Masters - Computers Applications
D.A.V. University
IndiaArtificial Intelligence Professional Program -
Skills
- Mentorship and coaching
- Team leadership
- Strategic planning
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Talent development
- Distributed systems
- Platform architecture
- Cloud architecture
- API design and management
- Agile methodologies
Timeline
Sr Manager
PayPal
09.2020 - Current
Sr. Dev Manager - Distributed Systems and Cloud Platform
Cloudera
09.2018 - 05.2020
Principal MTS - Cloud Infrastructure
Salesforce
10.2016 - 09.2018
Engineering Director - Data Monitoring and Analytics
Composure.ai
10.2015 - 10.2016
Sr. Dev Manager - P2P Borrower’s Platform
Lending Club
02.2014 - 10.2015
MTS
PayPal and Ebay
09.2007 - 02.2014
Sr. Software Engineer
Cognizant (CTS)
01.2000 - 08.2007
Masters - Computers Applications
D.A.V. University