Soundar Vellingiri

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I'm Soundar, a Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years designing and delivering secure, high-scale distributed systems and payments platforms for global leaders like Slack, Amazon, and Microsoft.

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I’m Soundar, a Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years designing and delivering secure, high-scale distributed systems and payments platforms for global leaders like Slack, Amazon, and Microsoft. I focus on reliability, security, and scalable integration with third-party gateways, delivering value through thoughtful architecture, pragmatic delivery, and collaborative leadership.

I enjoy solving onboarding, API design, and international expansion challenges, leading cross-functional teams to ship fast while maintaining a strong customer focus. I’m passionate about mentoring engineers, improving CI/CD and security posture, and turning complex problems into clear, actionable solutions.

  • 13 years' experience
  • Joined January 2026

Industry experience

  • Software & Internet
  • Financial Services
  • Healthcare
  • Professional Services
  • Media & Entertainment

Work experience· 6 roles

Senior Software Engineer · LACKOct 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Growth Engineering: Designed and executed onboarding roadmap with 20+ A/B tests, optimizing onboarding funnel and boosting freemium-to-paid conversions. AI-Driven Onboarding: Led development of a personalized AI onboarding engine that auto-provisions teams, channels, and configurations based on user intent, dramatically reducing time-to-value. Infrastructure Reliability: Architected improvements to critical Sign-in and Onboarding APIs, enhancing SLAs and reducing latency for millions of daily active users.

Senior Software Engineer · SlackOct 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Growth Engineering (Sign-in & Onboarding): Designed and executed a rigorous onboarding road map with 20+ A/B tests, optimizing the onboarding funnel and driving improvements in user retention and free-to-paid conversion. AI‑driven Onboarding: Led the development of a personalized onboarding engine that automatically provisions teams, channels, and configurations based on user intent, reducing time-to-value for new organizations. Infrastructure Reliability: Implemented improvements for critical Sign-in and Onboarding APIs, boosting service level objectives and reducing latency for millions of daily active users. Multi-tenant Payment Gateway: Architected a sandboxed payment gateway framework using Groovy, enabling runtime control and rapid integration of third‑party gateways (e.g., Stripe). Global Expansion & Ops: Implemented gateway-driven capabilities to launch Mobile Carrier Billing in Japan and led end-to-end accounting integration for the Amazon.nl marketplace. Operational Excel

Senior Software Engineer II · AmazonApr 2018 – Oct 2022 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Healthcare Payments (Amazon Care): Led the payments infrastructure launch for Amazon’s healthcare business. Designed a HIPAA‑compliant anonymous payment processing backend to securely de-identify sensitive patient health data from Amazon’s core financial systems. Revenue & Platform: Engineered a dynamic checkout/payment preference engine that reduced click friction, contributing to $350M+ in annual revenue uplift. System Architecture: Built a multi-tenant, sandboxed payments gateway framework in Groovy to enable runtime control and rapid integration of third‑party gateways (e.g., Stripe). Global Expansion: Drove Mobile Carrier Billing in Japan and end-to-end accounting integration for Amazon.nl; enabled global expansion with compliant financial flows. Operational Excellence & Leadership: Accelerated new marketplace launches by virtualization of fulfillment constraints and helped hire 10+ engineers.

Software Engineer · MicrosoftOct 2015 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos
Web Team Lead / Software Engineer II · GrouponApr 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos
Software Engineer II / Web Team Lead · GrouponApr 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) · Madras Institute of Technology2008 – 2012
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) · Madras Institute of Technology2008 – 2012

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