Walter Pezzini

Walter Pezzini

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VP Of Engineering
California, United States

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  • Zscaler
    VP of Engineering
    Zscaler
    Dec 2023 - Current (2 years 8 months)
    VP of Engineering, Mobile Platforms team @ Zscaler.
  • Greenlight
    VP of Engineering
    Greenlight
    Mar 2022 - Aug 2023 (1 year 6 months)
    VP of Engineering for all Greenlight products and services leading an engineering organization up to 150 developers (FTEs and Consultants) in the US, South America and India. Responsible for both client side (iOS and Android native apps + Web portal) and the backend services running on AWS. The solution includes many critical features to manage finances of minors including a debit card for kids with parental spending controls, chores and allowances, savings and goals, an Invest simplified product, an electronic wallet for parents, a Credit card for parents and teens, a P2P product, a Safety and a Financial Literature product. Working closely with the CTO and his team to take the Engineering organization and the Products to the next level. O
  • PayPal
    Senior Director of Engineering
    PayPal
    Aug 2018 - Mar 2022 (3 years 8 months)
    As part of PayPal’s Consumer BU took an increasingly bigger role over the years up to the point of leading the Consumer Experiences Engineering org of ~350 developers worldwide (US, South America, India, Singapore) that was responsible for the PayPal and Xoom Consumer products. Engineering leader responsible for up to 2.6B$ annual revenue for PayPal (including the P2P transfers product which is the second highest revenue generator at PayPal after Checkout). My organization owned some of the critical features inside of PayPal including the electronic Wallet, Crypto, P2P transfers, Funds I/O, Bill Payments, Cards and QR Code support among others. The organization included Java backend developers (60%). native client (~30%) Web full stack (10%
  • Yahoo!
    Director of Engineering
    Yahoo!
    May 2013 - Aug 2018 (5 years 4 months)
    In the Yahoo mobile native apps division, leading the Core Platforms team (60+ developers) that supported an organization of 400+ mobile developers worldwide. My team provided core libraries, services and platforms that were designed specifically for Mobile Native apps (Android and iOS). The most critical pipelines were the Business Analytics pipeline (provides all metrics about usage, retention, growth of mobile native apps) and the Telemetry and Stability pipeline (provides critical real-time data about quality, performance and stability of all mobile native apps in the company). The team was also responsible for the following additional areas: CI Mobile Build and Release Pipeline, Alpha and Beta Testing, coordination of all common SDKs a
  • D
    Director of Engineering
    Mar 2010 - Feb 2013 (3 years)
    Successful leader of an organization of over 40 developers worldwide (most of them Java server developers) working on Cloud Security and Network visibility products; spearheaded new product development from conception to successful delivery to production while playing a pivotal role in product architecture, process optimization and alignment with other teams. Critical role in effective budget planning and cost control strategies with emphasis on maximizing ROI; managed strategic relationships including vendor relations and contract negotiations.
  • E
    VP Professional Services
    Expert System
    Aug 2007 - Mar 2010 (2 years 8 months)
    Responsible for all Professional Services and Customer Support activities for North America (PS projects, software installations and customizations, trainings, etc.). Management of a remote group of engineers and linguists for customizations and deployment projects for US customers. Working with the company's management staff on the strategy and future directions of the company in terms of product offerings, market development, innovation.
  • I
    Director of Engineering
    Inxight Software, Inc. (acquired by Business Objects in Jun 2007)
    Jan 2005 - Jul 2007 (2 years 7 months)
    Leader of a software development group for a NLP product, highly distributed fully multi-threaded linguistic pipeline application. Delivered a first version of the product with limited capabilities in 3 months, and a complete version of the product by September 2006. The innovation in the product is about the capability of dynamically support interactions with different third-party components (using plug-ins), to guarantee flexibility and ease of integration.
  • S
    Senior Software Engineer
    Feb 1995 - Oct 2004 (9 years 9 months)
    Senior Software Engineer in the Solaris Network Engineering group. Solid technical hands-on experience in C coding, both kernel and user space. Great experience in software development methodologies and best practices. Analysis and resolution of complex technical problems from customers worldwide. Protocols: TCP/IP stack, IPv6, IPQoS, Mobile IP, IPMP, X25, PPP, etc. Technologies used: C and C++, gdb/dbx, netperf, Solaris packaging tools, Java
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  • Politecnico Di Milano
    Politecnico di Milano — Master of Science (MS) Computer Science
    Politecnico Di Milano
    Jan 1987 - Dec 1994 (8 years)
  • Politecnico Di Milano
    Politecnico di Milano — Master's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    Politecnico Di Milano
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