Jagathi Gade
Summary
Dynamic engineering leader with a track record of driving transformative change across fintech and edtech sectors for 10 years. Expertise in strategic planning, organizational design, and process optimization enhances alignment of engineering initiatives with business objectives, resulting in significant operational efficiency gains. Known for fostering a culture of growth through mentorship and empathetic coaching to empower teams at all levels. Committed to utilizing innovative engineering practices to boost overall performance within the organization.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
Work History
Head of Engineering, Square Risk
Block
04.2023 - Current
- Lead the engineering organization (SWE, MLE, and DE) to create risk management controls for all Square products and surface areas, amounting to an annual GPV of $200 billion. Consistently controlled all modalities of risk (including fraud, chargeback, credit exposure, etc.) well within planned thresholds.
- Directed teams in developing AI-based solutions empowering customers to manage risk tolerance and mitigation.
- Shifted the paradigm of risk from being an afterthought to a forethought by strengthening the partnerships with Square product teams and driving world-class platforms that cut the integration times and effort by 70%.
- Start and grow the teams that build tooling for risk operations, policy, and systems, resulting in record lower times of recovery from days to hours.
- Established guidelines and milestones for engineering roadmaps as an engineering DRI in the X functional GTM core group.
Head of Engineering, Customer Trust and Safety
Robinhood
02.2022 - 04.2023
- Lead the engineering org that builds best-in-class systems to curb different types of fraud. Built capabilities that advance risk management systems to unlock growth and customer retention.
- Lead the engineering organization that builds systems to manage integrations with Surveillance, SAR filing, and Transaction Monitoring in the AWS cloud.
- Established strong bidirectional data conduits between fraud management and AML systems enabling investigative operations to save time by 30-40%
Director, Engineering
Capital One
- Lead the AML engineering organization that created an outstanding impact by improving the quality of AML investigations while reducing time by over 60% for multiple business units.
- Lead Messaging Tech that created and supported large scale messaging pipelines and infrastructure for marketing, OTP, Security and Risk related messages.
Director, Blackboard Consulting
Blackboard (Now Anthology)
01.2012 - 05.2018
- Eng leader of a small but mighty cross-functional team that created a cloud-based content marketplace and scaled enormously into multiple geographies and multi-million dollar hubs.
Education
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
IndiaDiploma - Executive Leadership
Cornell University
Ithaca, NYSkills
- Engineering Leadership
- Software Engineering, System Design
- Trust, identity, compliance, and risk
- Product engineering
- Tailored communication to various audiences
- Demonstrated blend of eng excellence, operational excellence and culture agency
Timeline
Head of Engineering, Square Risk
Block
04.2023 - Current
Head of Engineering, Customer Trust and Safety
Robinhood
02.2022 - 04.2023
Director, Blackboard Consulting
Blackboard (Now Anthology)
01.2012 - 05.2018
Director, Engineering
Capital One
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
Diploma - Executive Leadership
Cornell University
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