#FPLive in association with KPMG & Transferwise presents…

Harsh Sinha, VP Engineering @ TransferWise

Scaling an autonomous product engineering culture to deliver rapid customer impact

After a great sell-out event in February, we’re back at the beginning of April for a FinTech flavoured dive into product, engineering and culture at TransferWise.

Hear from Harsh as he talks through:

• TransferWise, where it came from and where it is
• Product Engineering – what does it mean at TransferWise?
• The engineering organisational structure at TransferWise: running automomous independent teams
• Who decides what and when?
• How TransferWise differ from other companies in terms of communication and collaboration
• Does it work?
• What challenges TransferWise face as they scale

More about our speaker:

Harsh is Vice President of Engineering at TransferWise.

Harsh scales technology, product and leads the engineering team at TransferWise, the international money transfer platform. TransferWise customers send £500m every month using the platform, and it’s attracted $91m from investors such as world’s largest VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, Sir Richard Branson, Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, the co-founders of PayPal.

Prior to joining TransferWise, he was Director of Product at PayPal, leading the product strategy and development of PayPal’s mobile apps and SDKs enabling third parties to build mobile wallet experiences using PayPal’s platform. Harsh also led eBay’s Local initiatives as Director of Engineering where he owned the vision and development of eBay’s Click & Collect platform globally, including launching eBay’s Click & Collect integration with Argos in the UK. Harsh is an advisor and an investor in early stage start ups.