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Srinivasan Chandrasekaran

Srinivasan Chandrasekaran

Charlotte,United States

Summary

With over 16 years of experience in technology and product leadership, have led the Payment Solutions and Platform at AvidXchange Inc. Also, a crypto and blockchain enthusiast, fascinated by AI advancements. Passionate about applying these innovations to drive intelligent automation. B2B SaaS Product Leader with strength in aligning complex technical solutions with business strategies. Committed to ensuring customer-centric, scalable, and secure payment platforms.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Director of Product Management

AvidXchange, Inc.
02.2022 - Current

Key Accomplishments:

  • Led architectural transformation of AvidXchange’s monolithic payments platform into event-driven microservices-based system, improving scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency.
  • Spearheaded redesign of Payment Preference Management, providing customers seamless control over payment methods (e.g., ACH, Virtual Cards, RTP) and preferences, driving enhanced user experience and operational efficiency.
  • Drove strategic initiative to enable Real-Time Payments (RTP) across platforms, revolutionizing how customers move money with instantaneous settlement capabilities and enhancing cash flow management for both Buyers and Suppliers.
  • Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including Product, Engineering, UX, and Operations, to ensure delivery of high-impact features and integrations aligned with customer needs and business objectives.
  • Partnered with Treasury teams to redefine how money is moved within the platform, focusing on compliance, security, and reliability of payment transactions.

Responsibilities:

  • Ownership of the full product lifecycle, from ideation and strategy development to implementation and validation, ensuring that platform evolution aligns with business objectives and market needs.
  • Worked closely with internal and external stakeholders to define a clear product roadmap for the payment platform, prioritizing high-impact initiatives and driving consensus across teams.
  • Established and tracked KPIs to measure the success of platform changes, focusing on improving speed, reducing errors, and enhancing user engagement across payment products.
  • Championed Agile product development environment, participating in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and daily Scrum ceremonies, ensuring timely and quality delivery of features.
  • Fostered collaboration between Engineering, Architecture, Treasury, and Legal teams to ensure alignment on technical designs and compliance requirements

Senior Platform Product Manager, ePayments

AvidXchange, Inc.
06.2018 - 02.2022

Key Accomplishments:


  • Led Product Strategy and created AvidXchange's Bank Channel Platform that allows banks to leverage Avid's Payment Automation rails for their Middle Market Customers
  • Through Product research and Customer Insights, built a Virtual Card Platform that supports multiple partner rails and configurations
  • Accountable for Platform Modules that enabled Strategic Accounting Partners to embed Payment experiences
  • Partnering with cross functional team, built Automated Payment Reconciliation services for Treasury and Accounting teams


Responsibilities:


  • Ownership of the full product development process: problem identification, solution design and scoping, implementation, adoption and validation.
  • Translate feature requests/improvements into requirements that the development team can use during build.
  • End-to-end platform product management in an Agile environment; participation in Scrum ceremonies and agile planning
  • Collaborate closely with internal architecture and engineering teams, third-party technology partners, additional product teams, and other cross-functional stakeholders
  • Have ownership of the full product development process: problem identification, solution design and scoping, implementation, adoption and validation.

Principal Engineer - Payment Solution

AvidXchange, Inc.
09.2017 - 06.2018

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Pivotal member of an Agile Scrum team working closely with Architects, Dev Ops, and developers to drive and evolve a successful testing and automation strategy
  • Developing standard Test Classes and Methods for reusability, handling test libraries, Managing the Environment configurations, EDMX changes, Visual Studio Upgrades, and enhancing the Test Framework
  • Working with Automation Tools, Manage Integration of Test Framework with Rally, Outlook, Mail servers, and other systems and Manage Test Framework interaction with JSON, WSO2, Kendo, Neuron, Angular, JavaScript, etc.
  • Responsible for all testing processes, metrics, and artifacts that contribute towards overall quality of the product
  • Working closely with Architects, Dev Ops, Product, Engineering, vendors, and all other agencies to implement new tools and processes
  • Responsible to review release certification, mentor and guide Test Automation Engineers at all levels

Senior Automation Engineer - Supplier Solutions

AvidXchange, Inc.
12.2016 - 08.2017

Senior Technical Product Manager

Wells Fargo
04.2015 - 12.2016

Technical Product Manager - Client Bank Of America

Tata Consultancy Services
05.2012 - 04.2015

QA Lead - Client Bank Of America

Tata Consultancy Services
12.2008 - 05.2012

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA - Business Administration and Management, General

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
01.2022

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Anna University
Chennai, TN, India
04.2008

Skills

  • Product Leadership
  • Technology Leadership
  • B2B Solutions
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Product Management
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)
  • PDLC Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Data-driven decision-making
  • Technical acumen
  • Go-to-Market Strategies
  • Cross-Functional Leadership
  • Customer Needs Assessment
  • Payments - ACH, VCC, RTP

Awards

  • 2018 AvidXcellence Award, AvidXchange Inc, 01/2019
  • 2021 AvidXcellence Award, AvidXchange Inc, 01/2022
  • 2022 AvidXcellence Award, AvidXchange Inc, 01/2023

Licenses & Certifications

  • AI for Everyone - DeepLearning.AI
  • Blockchain: Beyond the Basics - LinkedIn
  • Customer Experience: Service Blueprinting - LinkedIn
  • Advanced Prompt Engineering Techniques - LinkedIn
  • Cryptocurrency and Blockchain: An Introduction to Digital Currencies - Wharton Online
  • FinTech: Foundations, Payments, and Regulations - Wharton Online
  • FinTech: Foundations & Applications of Financial Technology - Wharton Online
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals - Microsoft
  • Microservices Foundations - LinkedIn
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals - Microsoft
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) - Project Management Institute
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) - Scrum Alliance
  • Entrepreneurship and Strategic Innovation Specialization - Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Financial Management Specialization - Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Timeline

Director of Product Management

AvidXchange, Inc.
02.2022 - Current

Senior Platform Product Manager, ePayments

AvidXchange, Inc.
06.2018 - 02.2022

Principal Engineer - Payment Solution

AvidXchange, Inc.
09.2017 - 06.2018

Senior Automation Engineer - Supplier Solutions

AvidXchange, Inc.
12.2016 - 08.2017

Senior Technical Product Manager

Wells Fargo
04.2015 - 12.2016

Technical Product Manager - Client Bank Of America

Tata Consultancy Services
05.2012 - 04.2015

QA Lead - Client Bank Of America

Tata Consultancy Services
12.2008 - 05.2012

Master of Business Administration - MBA - Business Administration and Management, General

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Anna University
Srinivasan Chandrasekaran