Well as most of you know - I have moved from the rainy Seattle back to the sunny (but chilly! since last one week) Bay Area, where I started my career as a software engineer 9 years back at Netscape/AOL. My short stay at Amazon.com in Seattle has been an interesting experience - learned a lot working on their platform and helped in building a new Authentication Portal for all Amazon.com, AWS, and it's subsidiaries. But as you can guess, that's what I've been doing since last 9 years. :-) It is still exciting to build Web Identity and Authentication Services/Applications, but after 9 years it's definitely not as exciting as it used to be before. Just about the time the new opportunity at PayPal came along to help in their recent efforts to open up their payments platform. What's more interesting than Online Payments for some one with Identity background ? Just kidding ... but just like Online Identity, a lot of things like authentication, authorization, data portability, contacts, activity, risk , fraud, etc..., apply for Online Payments too just at a different (higher) level. So I took the opportunity to join the PayPal Platform team as the Evangelist to help in making Online Payments more sexy. The new PayPal X Adaptive Payments Platform been opened up recently (early Nov at the PayPal Innovate Dev Conference) and the APIs are available for developers to make use of and build/convert/monetize their cool ideas around payments into reality.
I'm looking forward to learn more about the Payments world, help in improving the PayPal's Adaptive Payments platform/APIs and, above all, be the voice of external developers at PayPal. When you get a chance, check out https://www.x.com web site - it's our new developer portal with tons of information about PayPal's platform and APIs.
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