Summary
Imran Raja is an engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling secure, high-throughput payment and identity systems across startups and large enterprises. Currently managing Payroll engineering at Square after leading Artist Identity for TIDAL and high-impact payments teams at Block, he combines product-focused leadership with deep hands-on experience in payments tokenization, CI/CD and FedRAMP/FIPS security hardening. He has a track record of forming new teams and processes that deliver measurable results—most notably reducing card-on-file decline rates by ~40% and accelerating release cadence from days to hours. Comfortable in both cloud and on-prem environments, he has driven platform work from Docker-based PaaS orchestration to cross-platform CI for authentication proxies. Based in Ann Arbor, he pairs technical depth in security and systems engineering with strong people management—maintaining high retention and enabling rapid customer adoption for product-led growth. A practical problem-solver, he often blends data analysis and engineering (e.g., Jupyter-driven product metrics) to align roadmaps with measurable business impact.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Brooklyn Tech
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Brooklyn College
English