Arjun Mehta
VP of Engineeringarjun.mehta@stripe.com|+1 415 555 0312|San Francisco, CA|linkedin.com/in/arjunmehta-vp
Professional Summary
Engineering executive with 18 years building and scaling payments infrastructure. Led teams of 200+ engineers across Stripe, PayPal, and Square. Expertise in real-time payments, fraud detection, and global regulatory compliance. At each company, owned and shipped multiple concurrent platform programs.Experience
VP of Engineering
Stripe · San Francisco, CA
• Project: Stripe Tax — Automated compliance across 50+ countries
• Project: Real-Time Payments Engine — 135+ currencies, 45+ methods, $50B+/yr
• Project: Intelligent Retry — Failure rate 2.8% → 0.9%
• Project: Career Ladder — Designed L3–L8 ladder; −28% attrition
• Lead 200+ engineers across Payments, Billing, and Treasury
• Owned critical services at Stripe; improved p95 latency by 52%
• Improved CI cycle time from 39m to 13m
Senior Director of Engineering
Stripe · San Francisco, CA
• Project: Idempotency Framework — Duplicate charges −99.7%
• Project: Stripe Identity — KYC/AML for 50M+ verifications/yr
• Scaled org from 40 → 120 engineers across SF, Dublin, Singapore
• Improved CI cycle time from 23m to 13m
• Owned critical services at Stripe; improved p95 latency by 43%
• Led migration of 10 services to modern stack with zero downtime
Director of Engineering
PayPal · San Jose, CA
• Project: Real-Time Fraud ML — Fraud losses −45%
• Project: One Touch — Passwordless checkout to 100M+ users
• Led 40-engineer Checkout organization
• Wrote design docs and RFCs adopted by 4 teams
• Improved CI cycle time from 34m to 12m
• Owned critical services at PayPal; improved p95 latency by 34%
Engineering Manager
Square · San Francisco, CA
• Project: PCI DSS Level 1 — Led certification for payment infra
• Project: Cash App Pipeline — Initial payment processing design
• Managed 15 engineers; 4 promoted to senior
• Cut cloud spend 20% through right-sizing and caching
• Wrote design docs and RFCs adopted by 5 teams
• Improved CI cycle time from 25m to 11m
• Reduced production incidents 20% via better observability and runbooks
Senior Software Engineer
Visa · Foster City, CA
• Project: Token Service — Replaced raw PANs for issuers
• Project: EMV Migration — Support for 3,000+ issuing banks
• Partnered with product to ship 2 high-impact features used by 56k users
• Cut cloud spend 26% through right-sizing and caching
• Wrote design docs and RFCs adopted by 6 teams
• Improved CI cycle time from 36m to 10m
Software Engineer
Oracle · Redwood City, CA
• Project: Release Automation — Cycle 6 weeks → 2 weeks
• Project: Exadata Perf — Query latency −35%
• Reduced production incidents 32% via better observability and runbooks
• Partnered with product to ship 5 high-impact features used by 87k users
• Cut cloud spend 32% through right-sizing and caching
• Wrote design docs and RFCs adopted by 7 teams
• Improved CI cycle time from 37m to 11m