Namrata Ganatra

Chief Product & Technology Officer

2023 - Current

Co-Founder, GP

2021

Angel fund writing $25k - $100k checks into early stage technology companies. We invest across consumer and enterprise companies disrupting using AI and cutting edge technology, in the fields of FinTech, HealthTech and Platform Infrastructure companies

Board Advisor at Thrasio

2022 - 2023

Founder & CEO

2020 - 2022

Storepath is Generative AI & LLM based Ecommerce Growth Platform with a mission of making eCommerce easy and accessible to everyone. Storepath is now acquired by Thrasio.

CTO

2019 - 2020

BloomTech (fka Lambda School) is pioneering a new model of higher education in which the school invests in the students, instead of the other way around. At Lambda School, we aim to break down traditional ideas of what tech talent looks like and enable more people to enter and succeed in the industry.

Senior Director of Payments (Engineering and Product)

2017 - 2019

Building an open financial system for the world. We're hiring for key engineering roles in SF, Chicago and NYC!

Head of Engineering for Facebook Payments

2013 - 2017

Led end to end payments platform and products for Facebook, while managing a team of 50+ engineers and engineering managers. * Enabled career growth opportunities for many engineers and created new engineering leaders within the organization. * Contributed to leadership and engineering hiring across Facebook. * Responsible for Payments platform that processed over $15B annual payments, supported 50+ payment methods and 49 currencies across 109 countries. * Made significant contributions to advertisers growth on Facebook through enhanced prepaid account features and by improving the advertiser billing experience. * Major contribution to Innovating cloud based tokenization transaction, creating new way for secure commerce platform on Facebook with third party merchants. * Championed and contributed to Modularizing Payments platform that reduced the build and integration time to launch new payment use cases across the family of apps from months to less than a week. * Championed Reliability improvements and drove system stability and infrastructure to get to 99.9% for key payments components and services. * Participated in hackathon projects, did hands on Android development for it for very initial phase, and it eventually became a successful product launch for new way to buy and sell within Facebook groups. and overall helped build payments use cases across Facebook.

Senior Engineering Manager

2011 - 2013

Principal Software Engineer / Tech Lead

2010 - 2011

Senior Staff Software Engineer

2008 - 2010

Microsoft Online Customer Portal (MOCP) is the portal used by customers to directly manage their subscriptions, pending orders, and their Partner Solution Advisors (PSA) assignments. In the first release of MOCP, I worked on developing a credit card based billing platform utilizing Subscription Commerce Platform infrastructure to manage purchases and provisioning in a startup team. In the later releases, I worked on integrating and developing custom solutions around the MetraTech Billing platform to enable purchases using the credit cards and invoices for online services and to implement syndicated based billing.

Senior Software Engineer

2005 - 2007

Primary responsibilities include Developer, Tech lead & Production deployment support. Worked on Projects such as Windows Market Place Search Platform, Microsoft Delivery Partner web service, Sharepoint applications, and Genuine Software Initiative (GSI).