GAUTAM KUMAR
Seattle,WA
Summary
With 18 years of experience in developing complex software systems, including 12 years in engineering team management. I have led the organization through both crisis and growth periods, demonstrating effective leadership in varying conditions My focus areas include software delivery, project management, strategic planning, people development, and building high-performing teams.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Engineering Manager, Payments Platform
Coinbase
07.2021 - Current
- Team Size: 35+ including 3 Managers, Frontend/Backend engineers.
- Lead Coinbase’s Payments Platform organization, spanning user experience, shared services APIs, data infrastructure, and global banking integrations.
- Scaled the team 7x—from 5 to 35+ engineers, including 3 engineering managers—across four high-impact teams.
- Steered the payments organization through the 2023 banking crisis and crypto market downturn, ensuring business continuity and resilience.
- Enabled seamless fiat payment flows across 100+ countries through 30+ strategic banking and payment vendor integrations, powering retail, institutional, and developer products.
- Supported hundreds of billions in quarterly payment volume, optimizing for reliability, scalability, and compliance.
- Built and launched CBPay (Coinbase Pay) from the ground up—Coinbase’s flagship fiat-to-crypto onramp—leading the product from 0→1 while assembling and scaling the engineering team from scratch.
Software Engineering Manager
Amazon
06.2011 - 07.2021
- Team Size: 10 - 15 Backend engineers.
- Amazon Go: Led the engineering team that built Just Walk Out technology in the Amazon Go stores. It enabled shoppers to simply enter a store, grab what they want, and just go. Just Walk Out uses a combination of technologies to eliminate checkout lines. (July 2020 - July 2021)
- B2B MarketPlace: Led the engineering team that built Amazon B2B e-commerce marketplace that enabled business and institutional customers to shop for their business needs. (July 2018 - July 2020)
- Amazon Flex: Led the engineering team that built dynamic pricing engine and automated surge pricing for Amazon flex business. Amazon flex enables independent contractors to deliver with Amazon. (July 2016 - July 2018))
- Payments Platform: Led the engineering team that built payment gateway for credit card and net-banking payment methods for Amazon India launch. (June 2011 - July 2016)
Staff Engineer II
Broadcom
07.2006 - 06.2011
- Built applications for audio device drivers used in multimedia devices.
- Accelerated growth from from Software Engineer to Staff Engineer within 5 years.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
05.2006
Skills
- Payment processing systems, PCI Compliance
- Crypto, Blockchain, Distributed Ledger
- Stablecoin, Defi, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Smart Contract
- Payment Rails, Payments Gateways
- Credit Cards, Digital Wallets
- Crypto Onramps/Offramps
- Crypto/Payments Regulations, Mica, Travel Rule
- E-commerce
- Distributed Systems, Data pipeline
- Agile Methodologies, Design Patterns
- Machine Learning , Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- NFTs, Digital Assets, Web3, DAOs
- Digital Asset Custody
Timeline
Sr. Engineering Manager, Payments Platform
Coinbase
07.2021 - Current
Software Engineering Manager
Amazon
06.2011 - 07.2021
Staff Engineer II
Broadcom
07.2006 - 06.2011
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
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