In the payments world, any downtime impacts customer trust, reputation and the bottom line. When payment systems are hosted in datacentres, this is addressed by being cautious and making long-term commitments on capacity to ensure performance. Cloud has changed that model due to its flexibility and granularity. However, in moving to the cloud, new issues need to be dealt with.
Join Nik Sathe, a seasoned tech and payments CTO who has worked with leading brands, including PayPal, American Express and Google, and current CTO of Blackhawk Network, as he talks about the shift to cloud, particularly how a change in organisational thinking is needed when it comes to tackling risk.
Nik will also discuss the importance of optimising cloud engineering and data analytical skills, ensuring the business realises both its return on investment and the promised benefits of the move, and how rewarding engineers for the right behaviours can help leverage the cloud benefits.
The difference in these approaches is a reduction in technical debt, a more dynamic engineering team and million-dollar opex improvement on the bottom line.
Join Nik Sathe, CPO & CTO Blackhawk Network, and Capacitas co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer Dr Manzoor Mohammed, for our latest audio event to get his perspective on the following topics:
- What life was like before the cloud
- Why Blackhawk Network wanted to move to the cloud
- Benefits of moving to the cloud for payment systems and what’s needed to realise those benefits
- What actually happens after moving to the cloud
- What effect the shift had on staff
- What happens next and the role of CTO in making it happen
- How GenAI will impact payments
Blackhawk Network is a US payments firm with $30B in annual load value, 37,000 corporate/government partners, approximately 1B cards issued annually, and $4B+ rewards fulfilled annually.
Nik Sathe, Chief Product Officer and CTO of Blackhawk Network - Connect with Nik Sathe on LinkedIn
Nik Sathe is a veteran in the payments and technology markets with more than 30 years of leadership experience in building and scaling teams and platforms.
As the Chief Product Officer and CTO for Blackhawk Network, Nik is responsible for driving innovation and shaping the organisation’s global technology strategy, including product development, infrastructure and security.
He has previously worked for the likes of Google as VP Engineering for Google Nest, American Express as CTO, PayPal as co-CTO, and as VP for architecture and infrastructure.
Nik is well regarded in the industry as a mentor and advisor to technology start-ups and entrepreneurs, and his specialities include mobile payments, digital wallets, consumer IoT, commerce technologies, architecture, and business and technology strategy.
Nik holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Lafayette College.
