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Pankaj Gupta quits as Google Pay engineering head to join US crypto firm Executive says he will build Coinbase's technology hub in India 'from scratch', hire people
Pankaj Gupta is leaving Google Pay after leading the company’s engineering in India and Asia-Pacific at a time when it competing with rivals for a share in the financial services market. “I came in as an Apple fan-boy but leave wowed by the unimaginable reach of Android,” said Gupta, who was senior director of engineering at Google Pay and NBU (next billion users). He will join the US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, an
online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency.
“I have a great sense of pride and gratitude to have been a part of the Tez rocketship aka Google Pay alongside you from zero to nnnM+ users today now sending annually more than $mmm Billion to each other,” he said. Google Pay competes with players such as Walmart-owned PhonePe, Amazon Pay, and Alibaba-backed Paytm, which are also making significant inroads into the financial services market as well as payments. An alumnus of Stanford University and IIT-Delhi, Gupta was the founder and CEO of Bengaluru-based Halli Labs that sepcialised in artificial intelligence and machine learning. He joined Google after it acquired Halli Labs in 2017. He headed all engineering in APAC for Google Tez (now called Google Pay India) right from launch. He also headed global engineering across countries for Google Pay Consumer Products.