TEAM
We are passionate about revolutionizing the way people pay today.
Our mission are to create a wallet that brings the advancements in the world of online and mobile payments to the real world, all without changing the way people are used to paying.
We aim to enhance your experience, and make that transition easy for us all, with delightfully useable products. We take pride in being product people, with decades of experience in building and shipping real hardware and software products. If you share our passion of building world-class products, please reach out to us on the Contact Page.
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Ashutosh Dhodapkar, Ph.D.
Founder & CEO
Ashutosh brings over a decade of experience in product development from initial concept, through execution, to shipments. He has held engineering and management roles at early stage hardware startups and global companies. He holds 5 US Patents and a PhD from University of Wisconsin.
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Kuldeep Amarnath, Ph.D.
Founder & CTO
Kuldeep has spent over 10 years in hardware R&D spanning electromagnetics, semiconductor device design, and design for manufacturing. He is an avid tech enthusiast and maker, creating everything from furniture to fighting robots! He has 4 US patents and has a PhD in EE from the University of Maryland.
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Steve Bennet
CFO
Steve is a Silicon Valley veteran having spent 20+ years as CFO, investor, and board member of over 50 technology startups. He teaches entrepreneurial finance at San Jose State University and has degrees in economics and business administration from Wharton and UCLA.
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Steven Sauceda
Lead Designer
Steven brings 20+ years of product design experience in smart finance, mobile, and consumer electronics. He has been instrumental in deploying cross functional design schemes at Polycom, Etrade, Intel, iRiver and Samsung. He has a BFA in Graphic Design from Oregon State University.
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Sarang Wagholikar
Firmware Architect
Sarang is a math buff with 15 years of software development experience at Samsung, Marvell, and Cisco. He has expertise in wireless connectivity, security and power efficiency, and has code shipping in millions of devices. He has over 10 patents and degrees from University of Illinois and UC Berkeley.
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Cris Rys
Mobile Architect
Cris has spent more than 20 years creating consumer software ranging from Photoshop to mobile apps. He has led software development at Adobe Systems, Hotwire, and his own startup MobileDJ. Cris has deployed more than half a dozen apps in the iOS and Android app stores. He has a CS degree for the UC San Diego.
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Sumukh Pathare
Hardware Engineer
Sumukh has 20 years of experience designing ultra-low power hardware for Medical Devices, Robotics and RFID applications. He has lead HW development at FitBit, Becton Dickinson, and ThingMagic (now Trimble). Sumukh has a Bachelors in Physics from IIT Bombay and Masters in ME from UMass Amherst.
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Ryan Gaspar
Manufacturing Engineer
Ryan has worked in hardware and product engineering roles developing mobile hotspots, cameras, and fiber optic test equipment. He is an avid fitness buff and has completed the Ironman. Ryan has a Bachelors in EE from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with emphasis on wireless communications.
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Jeffrey Liu
Mobile Developer
Jeffrey is passionate about mobile development for wearable and IoT devices. He has several years of experience with Android and iOS platforms including Apple watch. Before Qvivr, Jeffrey was a software development engineer at Intel Corporation. He has an MS from USC and BS from UCLA.
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Sameer Siruguri
Cloud Architect
Sameer has over a decade of experience building scalable backend software. He has led teams at TechSoup Global, Microsoft, Yahoo! and numerous startups. Sameer is active in community organizations like the Stride Center, Code for America, and Bridge Foundry. He has a Masters from Rice University.
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John Gray
Product Design
John focuses on seamless user experiences across mobile platforms and products. His Industrial Design background is leveraged at SWYP in the areas of UX/UI, visual design, and experience design. John has a BS in Industrial Design from Georgia Tech.
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Danny Tran
Marketing Communications
Danny specializes in digital marketing strategies and has been well involved with the Silicon Valley ecosystem. He’s been a part of two previous startups with the latest in an accelerator program at the EIA. Danny has a BS in Business Administration at San Jose State University concentrating in entrepreneurship and global innovation.