Senthil Padmanabhan is a Vice President, Technical Fellow at eBay, where he leads the developer platform and user experience engineering. With over a decade of experience in the industry, Senthil has played a crucial role in several transformational projects for eBay's technology platform. He is the creator and implementor of numerous systems, libraries, and frameworks used across eBay's codebase, thus paving the way for rapid software development and innovation. His work has earned him recognition in the form of Silicon Valley Business Journal's 40 under 40 honoree.

Senthil is an author and speaker, and he regularly blogs on eBay's tech blog. He is passionate about customer-centric innovation, engineering and architecture of UX platforms, and building highly effective teams.

Senthil attended the Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani and PSG College of Technology, where he studied Software Engineering (MS) and Electronics & Communication Engineering (BE), respectively. Before joining eBay, he worked at Yahoo! and Cognizant Technology Solutions, where he held various positions.