Nikhil (Nik) Sathe Email & Phone Number

Pleasanton, California, Us

Pleasanton, California, Us

Blackhawk is the global leader in Branded Payments, connecting consumers to brands via stored value products and services, and offering a rich set of Rewards solutions to companies and governments around the world.

San Francisco, California, Us

Arlington, Va, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Responsible for the strategy, design and development of Google's Nest, Chromecast and Home branded products and Smart Home ecosystem. Championed and led the integration of Nest and Home infrastructure and services to create a comprehensive user experience, ML/AI capabilities and platform for future product development. Launched several Google Assistant products that brought Google's products and services to a new surface in the home. Orchestrated industry collaboration on CHIP standard that increases user choice and simplifies product development for the home.

Led Nest's hardware and software engineering teams through a large expansion in products and capabilities, entry into new verticals, ML/AI features and a brand new platform which also became the basis of a new industry standard CHIP.

New York, Ny, Us

Engineering and product management responsibility for creating award winning customer experiences through Amex's global web sites, mobile apps and digital partnerships. Launched Amex on Apple Pay, Google Pay and in-app NFC payments including first-to-market Corporate Card integration.Drove massive velocity improvements via automation and internal private cloud based on OpenStack, Docker & Kubernetes. Pioneered investments in private/federated Blockchain technologies.Responsible for firm-wide data infrastructure and use cases powering Risk management, marketing, personalization and customer acquisition; built a hybrid data management platform including Hadoop, Spark and data warehousing platforms like Teradata and Netezza.Catalyst for Amex's "Agile transformation"; set up Silicon Valley engineering presence.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Launched Google Wallet and Wallet Objects that enabled users to digitize their entire wallet! Led the Merchant Payments teams including Google's checkout products, one-click payments capabilities and API integration. Partnered with the Android team to develop Host Card Emulation (HCE) and built Google Wallet's NFC payments capabilities, and the gMail team to launch money as an email attachment. Defined and prototyped Google's in-store payments.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Responsible for most technology decisions at the leading online and mobile payments provider. Initiated and led rewrites of the core payments, risk and user/account systems to ensure a stable, highly available, and scalable foundation for future growth. Owned PayPal's technology strategy and partnered on product and business strategy.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Co-led PayPal’s technology organization – additionally responsible for the Data Management organization during transition. Member of PayPal Executive Staff and a key contributor to the strategic definition of PayPal’s offline strategy and market entry.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Interim leader for all of PayPal’s product development, quality engineering & merchant support teams (in addition to architecture & infrastructure). Led three strategic business initiatives to expand PayPal’s footprint in digital goods, market-place payments and point-of-sale.

New York, Ny, Us

Accountable to group CIO for architecture strategy, governance and implementation across broad portfolio of 450+ applications spanning customer-facing, back office and internal service capabilities. One of six line-of-business "Chief Architects" responsible for technology strategy across JPMC. Business liaison to ensure technology strategy supports business vision and emerging market requirements; collaborated to define innovative technology solutions in an increasingly technology-dependent business environment.

Us

Led the product and engineering to deliver B2B middleware software to market. First generation capabilities were live in just 4 months with two successive major releases also successfully delivered. Built a high performance team from 4 to 25 in six months that had fun while working hard. Drove company and product strategy during diffcult dot-com bubble burst era.

Broomfield, Colorado, Us

Dresden, Sachsen, De

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Isc, Physical Sciences