Darshan Desai
Director Principal Architect (IC) at PayPal
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarshan Desai is a product-minded technologist and inventor with 13 years of experience architecting secure mobile and identity systems, currently serving as Director and Senior Principal Architect at PayPal in Fremont. He has led design and delivery of mobile authentication SDKs, passwordless and adaptive authentication, FIDO/WebAuthn, MFA, account recovery, and multi-tenancy for large-scale payment and auth platforms. His background spans deep systems work at Intel—from compiler and binary translation engineering to performance tooling and full-system simulation—bringing a rare blend of low-level optimization and high-level security architecture. With 17 issued patents, he combines hands-on prototyping (mobile, IoT, NFC/HCE) with strategic platform vision and cross-geography team leadership. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge cryptographic authentication, device identity, and developer-friendly SDKs. He holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University and is known for turning complex security requirements into usable, production-ready products.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering at Santa Clara UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering at Sardar Patel University
Github Skills (1)
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Github contributions (5)
ddesai/amapp-android
Nov 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:119 PRs, 105 pushes, 55 branches in 3 years 3 months
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ddesai/isa
Oct 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:36 commits in 1 month
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