Sri Shivananda serves as PayPal’s Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Sri leads the product and platform engineering teams responsible for digitizing commerce experiences and delivering robust payments platforms that support PayPal's network of consumers merchants, developers, and partners with trusted solutions to move and manage money across more than 200 markets and 100 currencies.

Sri has played a critical role in helping PayPal remain at the forefront of innovation since joining the company in 2015. Prior to his appointment as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Sri was Vice President of Global Platform and Infrastructure, directing his team of technologists to drive massive growth at scale across a disruptive payments platform. Sri was responsible for all core technologies covering PayPal’s data centers, internal private cloud, online and offline data infrastructure, internal developer frameworks and tools, and various platform services.

Before PayPal, Sri was with eBay for 12 years, working his way up from a software engineer to Vice President of Global Platform and Infrastructure. As Vice President, he was responsible for the company’s technology infrastructure that powered the eBay Inc. businesses, including eBay’s hundreds of millions of listings and PayPal’s millions of daily payments. Sri joined eBay in 2002 from half.com.

Sri has served on the board of F5 Networks since 2020.

He received his Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio University and holds a Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering from Jawaharal Nehru Technological University.