Kalpesh Barde

Distinguished Expert Leading AI-Driven Commerce and Fintech Solutions

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About

Background

Experience

15+ years — AI/ML Powered Personalization & Recommendations · Intelligent Commerce · Payments at Scale

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology

Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years across Fintech and AI/ML commerce. At Life360, contributing to an end-to-end Revenue ML Platform (model training, inferencing, real-time recommendations) and scalable onboarding infrastructure driving MAU growth. Former Salesforce tech lead (1 trillion monthly automations) and PayPal senior engineer (1B+ transactions/quarter). Passionate about high-scale systems, AI/ML infrastructure, and engineering excellence.

Experience

Companies I Worked For

Life360

Salesforce PayPal

PayPal

Braintree

Illumina

Cisco

Persistent Systems

Sarvatra Technologies

Mastercard

Life360

Staff Software Engineer

Contributed to Life360’s Revenue ML Platform — a critical AI initiative serving 95.8M monthly active users — working across multiple stages: data ingestion, model training, real-time inferencing, and personalized subscription recommendations on mobile, targeting $10M+ in incremental revenue
Drove Life360’s company-wide top MAU growth initiative — developing backend infrastructure and Social Login workflow for Android, unblocking ~50K daily authentication requests across international markets
During a company hackathon, conceptualized and built an AI/ML-powered recommendation layer on top of Life360’s existing Location-Based Ads platform — bringing intelligent, geo-fenced retail targeting (Target, Walmart, Lowe’s) to users — acknowledged and praised company-wide, inspiring a formal cross-team production initiative

Salesforce — Commerce Cloud

Lead Member of Technical Staff

Spearheaded the Goals-Based Commerce platform, delivering AI-driven recommendations that improved client profit margins and increased Average Order Value on a $1B+ annual revenue platform
Championed generative AI products in Commerce Cloud and drove Marketing GPT integration, creating personalized shopping experiences that elevated conversion, loyalty, and search visibility
Introduced new merchandising capabilities into Demandware, now powering 5,600+ storefronts globally

PayPal — Braintree

Sr. Software Engineer

Helped engineer payment infrastructure processing 1B+ transactions per quarter, leveraging AI-driven retry routing to meaningfully improve authorization approval rates
Led development of a network tokenization platform securing billions of payment credentials globally, now foundational to PayPal’s payments security infrastructure
Contributed to backend services enabling seamless PayPal-to-Google Wallet integration

Work

Projects

Life360 · AI/ML

Revenue ML Platform

A critical engineering initiative that uses AI to recommend the most relevant subscription to each of Life360’s 95.8M monthly active users — from capturing user behavior and training recommendation models to serving personalized suggestions in real time on mobile, targeting $10M+ in incremental revenue.

Life360 · Growth

Social Login (Android)

Backend infrastructure and end-to-end Social Login workflow for Android, solving a critical authentication gap across international markets blocking ~50K daily requests from both new and returning users — enabling seamless and secure onboarding at scale.

Salesforce · AI

Commerce GPT

Goals-Based Commerce — an AI-powered merchandising layer enabling businesses to set high-level goals and automatically optimize strategies to meet them, part of Salesforce’s 2023 Commerce GPT launch.

Media / Press Release

Salesforce · Platform

Commerce Cloud

Enterprise-grade ecommerce platform powering billions of transactions. Contributed to core platform capabilities including checkout, promotions, and B2B commerce infrastructure.

About / Impact

PayPal · Payments

Network Tokenization

Built infrastructure to replace sensitive card data with network tokens at scale, improving authorization rates and reducing fraud across PayPal’s global payments network.

About / Media

Braintree · AI/ML

AuthRate Optimization

Applied AI/ML techniques to optimize transaction authorization rates across Braintree’s payment gateway, improving approval rates and reducing false declines at scale.

Use Case

Recognition