About

Gnanasekaran Uthirapathi is a Senior Product Manager at Pine Labs with over 15 years of experience in the software development life cycle, including 3 years as a Product Manager. He takes pride in consistently solving customer pains throughout his career. Gnanasekaran's product management responsibilities include mining existing customer issues, requirement analysis, creating product personas, prioritizing backlogs, owning and managing product roadmap and backlog planning, authoring use cases, PRDs, and mock-ups, acting as product owner, strategizing and executing the vision, collaborating with business, engineering, cross-functional teams spread across geographies, and defining non-functional requirements for initiatives while being a stakeholder in the quality of the team deliverables. Currently, Gnanasekaran is working as a Senior Software Engineer at PayPal, where he is involved in estimating, prioritizing, and planning testing activities on post payment operations. He is also responsible for designing, developing, and executing automation scripts using STF and Scenario Driver for post-payment operations such as Refund, Reversal, PayPal Payout, Reverse PayPal Payout, and chargeback. Previously, Gnanasekaran worked as a Technical Product Manager Level 3 at PayPal, where he reduced reconciliation problems by 90% over three months by detecting data discrepancies between multiple subsystems with external vendor/processor data. He also worked as a Senior Product Manager Plural by Pinelabs, where he built the Payout Product to capture all payment activities of a merchant in a single dashboard over three months by integrating with multiple bank partners (YBL, ICICI, and CITI), which helped achieve GTV AOP - 1800 Cr and net margin - 4Cr for Plural online. Gnanasekaran holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Anna University and a Master of Business Administration in Systems Engineering from the University of Madras. His tech stack includes product management, integration, software engineering, and testing. With 13.78 years of relevant experience, Gnanasekaran is a skilled professional with a proven track record of delivering successful products while keeping the customer's needs at the forefront of his work.