Ravi Narayan Email Address

Advisor, Investor

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Ravi Narayan is a, results-driven technology leader with clarity of vision, deep conviction, and broad-based technology expertise. He excels at delivering solutions, driving product innovation and motivating others to win. He is a mentor of choice to technologists.He has demonstrated ability to lead ‘Startup Efforts’ inside matrixed, fast-moving companies and consistently overcoming complex issues to achieve business objectives. Core Competencies: • Building organizations of up to 180 engineers, Product Managers and Technical Program Managers organized into several small high performing teams. • Collaborative Product strategy/conception with Business and Product Management • Design and Architecture of scalable platforms and experiences in e-commerce and Payments • Razor focus on Customer Pain Points and overall business outcomes Career Highlights ( in the Last 6 years): 1. Rebuilt the CORE Payment Platform for Amazon. a) Decrease TTM and eliminated Platform bottlenecking for businesses by implementing federated development on the Platform. b) Remodeled Payments to allow the processing of diverse Payment methods in developing markets. c) Improved Scalability, Performance and cost by building the Platform on Dynamo DB ( versus Oracle). 2. Created a new Service that vends Payment experiences for all internal businesses of Amazon driving better conversion and Cost of Payments. Eliminated the need for storefront owners to be experts in Payments. 3. Led the creation of the new PayPal Payments engine that can scale to several thousand Payments per second , 50 percent faster and cutting the TTM for new Products by half. 4. Created new Product offerings for eBay France as part of a market turnaround strategy 5. Revamped and expanded Product offering for eBay Auto Parts helping make it the second most popular vertical on eBay.com.