Ajinkya Mahadeo Ghadge leads engineering teams in the Pay-In domain at one of the top tech travel companies in Seattle. During his time, he has led the development of several fault-tolerant services backed by AWS cloud computing to process payments worth more than $100B annually across 155 countries, 45+ currencies, and different payment options globally. Prior to this, he was one of the core members to develop an AI marketing platform for KPI-driven marketing company called Amplero, Inc (now Curinos). While at Amplero (Curinos), Ajinkya leveraged multi-armed bandit experimentation to optimize customer lifetime value at scale for B2C marketers of global brands. In addition, he also has a strong background in leading research initiatives in robotics which were funded by the National Science Foundation.