Ahu Chhapgar's Email & Phone Number

💼 Past Experience

Professional Experience with Chhapgar:Managing Director, Global Head of Payments and Receivables Technology at Covansys / PayPal from October 2005 to March 2007 (1 year 6 months). Build and Manage Covansys Web Development and UX group in India and Singapore. Actively contributed to key initiatives on PayPal site redesign, site speed and design style guide implementation. Learnt how to run a large organization spread out across multiple locations.Engineering Lead / Manager (consultant) at Hewlett-Packard from May 2002 to October 2005 (3 years 6 months). HP eCommerce: Engineering Lead / Manager in a 30-member high-priority, multi-million dollar project to create a Catalog management tool used by HP sales in North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australia. Manage development and support responsibilities with offshore development team in the US and India, QA team in Canada and Support team in India.Technology Staff Engineer at eGain Communications from October 2000 to March 2002 (1 year 6 months). Built the eGain Assistant Reporting tool. Built and tested it across Oracle, Sybase and MS SQL. Performed a company wide analysis for Java Performance Profilers.VP Engineering, Digital Products at DexYP from April 2013 to May 2015 (2 years 2 months) in San Francisco Bay Area. Lead all engineering and QA for Dex's 600 million dollar digital business. This includes the ad technology platform, web properties, mobile, big data and search organizations.Brought in Cloudera to improve ad targeting, recommendations and bidding. Lead all engineering, data science and operations for startup Banjo for 6 months in 2013. Our tech stack AWS, Heroku, Ruby on Rails, Redis, Mongo DB, PostGres and Hadoop ecosystem.Sr. Manager, Engineering - PayPal Identity, Consumer Onboarding and Data Services at PayPal from April 2007 to July 2009 (2 years 4 months). Help PayPal scale payments. Worked on refactoring payments to see us through the holiday season.Won a PayPalian award for it. Head PayPal's Marketing Technology group. Improve merchant acquisition by 40% yoy. Lead a product with 11 million USD in revenues used within PayPal's key flows to create the right offer to the right customer at the right time.Group included product management, operations and web functions as well.Managing Director, Global Head of Payments and Receivables Technology at Citi. Citi is the #1 transaction banking business in the world.I lead the technology teams for all global and regional payment flows for Citi's transaction banking. We process several trillion dollars in payments each day and support a multi billion dollar P&L.Real time payment schemes around the globe have put us right in the middle of consumer flows. We are on a massive payments transformation journey.If you enjoy building highly scalable, available and resilient systems - join us.

🎓 Education

Education has always been a key part of Ahu Chhapgar's life. She has always been observant about her education and has always tried to learn as much as she can. With this in mind, she completed her undergraduate studies at The University of Toledo, where she majored in Computer Science. She also completed her Masters at the Maharashtra Institute of Technology, where she majored in Computer Science.Working ability, irrespective of the occupation or field, is an important prerequisite for any successful career. To this end, Ahu Chhapgar has always been focused on her work readiness. She has always been a dedicated worker, and has always been able to jump into any new opportunity with both feet. This has helped her to take on many new challenges, both in her personal life and in her professional career.It is clear that Ahu Chhapgar's background, education and experience haveall played a crucial role in her current career path. She is a highly experienced and dedicated worker, who is ready to take on any new challenge. She is a valuable member of any team, and is always willing to contribute to the success of her colleagues.

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

CVName: Ahu ChhapgarWhere did you study:I studied at Covansys / PayPal in India and Singapore.What did you do before coming to PayPal?I managed a team of web developers and UX designers in India and Singapore.What do you see as your biggest challenges in your role?There are always new challenges that come with any role. My biggest challenge is always trying to learn as much as I can to ensure that our products are improved.