- Plaid is a white label solution working to democratize financial and institutional data.- Focused on the Large Enterprise clients serving as the technical subject matter expert on all pre-sales engagements.

From jumping on last minute client calls to designing solutions for clients across different market segments/verticals David is responsible for the success of the company by enabling sales and ensuring product excellence across the network layers. At Rapyd, David works on identifying and addressing any gaps or opportunities internally within the company and externally with a client. He drives for the best outcome by being a trusted advocate and striving for a balance between both external partners and internal product teams. Currently, David is working across multiple groups and taking leadership in a variety roles: - Technical Sales Enabler - Solutions Architect - Partner Due Diligence Engineer - Payment Network Infrastructure Architect - QA Engineer - Client/Partner Implementation Delivery Manager - Product Management Liaison - Workflow Process DesignAreas of Focus: #Payments #PayOuts #Issuing #Wallet Architecture #Cards #Bank

Product Technical expert working alongside Mid-Market / Large Enterprise Sales and Account teams to drive growth and adoption of the Braintree platform.- Point of contact for all technical subject matter in merchant engagement and discovery calls.- Adept at translating payment, compliance and software knowledge to a non-technical or inexperienced audience.- Experience interfacing with customers ranging from C-level executives to 3rd party system integrators assigned to the implementation tasks.- Architecting custom solutions for Pre-Sale merchants and educated on best practices for Post-Sale merchants.- Built prototype implementations based on JavaScript web development and iOS mobile development utilizing Braintree client and server SDKs.- Provided consistent recurring feedback to Product Teams on merchant experience, feature gaps and product issues.- Solutions Advocate for Product Team (Ideation/Beta/Launch) on SamsungPay/PayPal.- Technical Point of Contact for LE Merchants (Airbnb/Yelp/Lyft).- Competitor strategy and analysis.

Driving Growth of the PayPal Startup Incubator program and the adoption of the PayPal/Braintree payment platform in major markets (North America, Japan, Singapore).- Personally drove 30% of new SMB merchant on-boardings.- Responsible for complete end to end Merchant lifecycle (lead generation, marketing, vetting, technical consulting, account management and support).- Managing portfolio of 500 startups with multi-million revenue bases.- Vetting and Onboarding of high potential technology eCommerce startups currently active in North America and APAC regions.- Creating a community where CEOs and developers can network and form relations to grow mutual ecosystem.- PayPal/Braintree platform evangelism.- Advising early stage CEOs on business model and monetization potential.- Educating Partners/Merchants on best practices and PCI compliance.- Advising developers on API usage and troubleshooting.- Leveraging internal and external resources to promote startup business potential.- Managing client relationships and heading customer engagement calls with team of engineering personnel.Serving as an Advisor/Mentor to Series A start ups.- Intimate understanding of PayPal/Braintree compliance/vetting processes.- Business Development (lead generation, cross marketing).- Use case optimization for maximum monetization potential.- PayPal and Braintree API payment platform consulting.- Technical Advising for self-implemented integrations.

● Developing custom solutions using Zuora cloud based SaaS billing/payment/accounting/revenue reporting financial platform to meet client business requirements.● Experience with building best user experience interfaces/applications and core product integration with existing client frameworks using API calls (REST/SOAP).● Intellectual Property Development for customer engagement. (Webstore with product selection/subscription functionality.)● Project Scoping and Analysis.● Sales support (Developing prototypes for proof-of-concept demonstrations, API consulting)● Customer support (Pre-Sales/Requirement Analysis/User Cases/Project Management/Development)● Salesforce Development (VisualForce/APEX coding).● PCI Compliant Data Migration

Responsible for development and sustainability of LCD glass manufacturing process for use in auto-focusing tunable lenses for use in mobile phones and biomedical applications.Primary Development responsibility includes researching and implementing new processes to follow company roadmap of transforming research facility into a scalable production facility with an output goal of 2M lenses per month.- Qualification of new equipment to improve process control and yield.- Design for Manufacturability (DFM) to ensure products meet cost and market requirements.- Design of Experiment study to qualify new processes: Liquid Crystal/Adhesives Dispensing, UV Curing, Vacuum Bonding.Initial process component qualification with subsequent full process qualifications.- Test fixture design and mechanical implementation (jigs, tools, equipment selection)Primary sustaining responsibilities - Troubleshooting problems on production line, determining root cause for scraps.- Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) to ensure products meet yield standards.- Continuous yield and improvement activities.- Ownership of production BOMs and materials.Project Management Responsibilities- Managing projects to meet target budget constraints.- Working with vendors/suppliers to ensure delivery time constraints are met.- Interfacing with product, test and reliability engineering groups to ensure new processes is qualified.Other responsibilities/projects- Lean Manufacturing, 6S implementation.- Yield Analysis/Data Modeling.- Writing procedures for processes.

- Responsible for the Development and Sustaining of Analog Photomasking process.- Semiconductor Processes Include: 1.2um, 0.5um and 0.35um technologies.- Characterization of photolithography process: resist thickness, exposure dose, alignment mark placement and design, KT analysis.- Creating training material for manufacturing staff on use of various production tools.- Design and optimization of process flow: (yield enhancement vs. throughput gains) for analog semiconductor products. Responsible for production product releases into manufacturing.- Production support: (Troubleshooting problem lots to determine Root Cause, Identifying problems on production line, Tool issues versus problem wafers, Specification writing.)