Tarun Kailash
About
TARUN KAILASH
Versatile tech. leader with over 19 years of experience built on a solid foundation of hands-on code development of over 8 years followed by managing architectural redesigns, delivery of complex products, and building high performing global teams from the ground up for over 11 years.
Strengths in strategizing goals, establishing processes, and devising meaningful metrics for driving the delivery of high quality products by leveraging his strong technical background, building deeply engaged teams and fostering collaboration and synergy across cross functional teams.
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Tech. leadership: Achieved the goal of 20% of PayPal’s checkout traffic flowing through the re-architected modular code stack, making it more scalable and ensuring continuous availability.
Customer focus: Drove the effort to reduce the introduction of defects in production by 50%, surpassing PayPal’s “delighting the customer” vision. Leveraged the same approach at Yahoo to improve production quality.
Continuous Improvement: Reduced the time to market for checkout products by 50% by optimizing PayPal’s checkout solution and seamless branding experience for customers, on and off eBay.
Team Development: Grew culturally diverse, high performance, large global team of 40+ Engineers and Managers spread across San Jose CA, Scottsdale AZ, and Chennai India. Repeated it for building the photo platform team at Flickr (Yahoo).