Resume — Munad Mahinoor

Summary

Engineering leader with 9+ years building high-availability fintech platforms at PayPal, scaling from individual contributor to managing an organization of 26 engineers. Drove $180M+ in incremental transaction volume, architected cloud-native systems on AWS, led GDPR/SOC2 compliance remediation under pressure, and introduced CI/CD practices that doubled developer throughput. Specializes in cross-functional technical alignment, incident response, and shipping in regulated, mission-critical environments.

Experience

Led an engineering organization of 26 full-stack engineers and 1 manager supporting a $40B credit business across multiple international markets
Drove five product experiments generating ~$180M in incremental TPV by building a cross-team innersource program that reduced PR review cycles from two weeks to same-day delivery; program scaled to 20 engineers across multiple teams
Architected full-stack migration from proprietary web frameworks to NextJS, Tailwind CSS, and tRPC; introduced modern CI/CD practices that doubled developer throughput and reduced false-positive output via AI-augmented automation
Led GDPR and SOC2 compliance remediation: identified and closed a systemic PII exposure spanning six years across all legacy credit products in a single weekend; built permanent PII screening controls into CI/CD pipelines
Designed and led war-room incident response frameworks for high-stakes operational windows (Black Friday and geo-expansion launches); achieved the lowest rate of customer-impacting failures in a decade
Named critical partner on PayPal's full Checkout architecture overhaul – the only credit organization at PayPal with full product parity at day-one launch across all credit offerings

Introduced NextJS to PayPal; shipped the first commercially compliant NextJS application on PayPal's proprietary web architecture
Served as architectural lead for a distributed credit platform operating across four countries with thousands of daily active users
Coached ten engineers on modern web application architecture and engineering best practices

Migrated application stack to AWS (SQS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3), replacing legacy cost drivers with a cloud-native serverless architecture
Revamped back-end systems from legacy .NET frameworks to a modern Node.js distributed architecture
Implemented a data-driven loan application that enabled rapid go-to-market execution across new product initiatives
Contributed to the Swift Capital–PayPal merger integration and led engineering for the Paycheck Protection Program rollout, shipped in under a week

Full-stack developer for the flagship Swift Capital Cash Advance product; company acquired by PayPal in fall 2017
Contributed across the full product lifecycle including architecture, implementation, cloud provisioning, and CI/CD pipelines

Skills

Languages: TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, C#
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (API Gateway, SQS, Lambda, S3, CloudFormation), Docker, Google Cloud Platform
Frameworks & Tools: Next.js, GraphQL, React, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Git, CI/CD & DevOps, GitHub, JIRA, Confluence
Familiar: C++, OpenAPI architecture, distributed systems (message queues, caching, serverless), Google Analytics
Interests: Web applications, community development, mentoring programs, soccer, axe throwing

Munad Mahinoor

Summary

Experience

PayPal Buy Now Pay Later

PayPal Working Capital

PayPal Business Loan

Swift Capital (acquired by PayPal)

Skills

Education

Lehigh University