Financial technology
10 CTOs in Financial Technology
These ten people have held the chief technology officer title at financial technology companies. Readers can learn how they set technology strategy, led engineering organizations and ran the platforms behind consumer and business financial products.
Professionals to explore
01—10Adrian Nasui
LinkedInExperience: Fintech, Payments, Lending Group CTO · Filbo
Fintech, Payments, Lending Group CTO at Filbo since February 2020. The profile says the role covers IT strategy, agentic AI architecture, cloud infrastructure, IT security and platform development, and that the Filbo product ecosystem includes IBAN accounts, IBAN payments and card issuing. Previously Software, Tech Lead for the Gammatrix core transaction & payments engine at EveryMatrix (2015–2018).
Lukasz Strozek
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technology Officer · Marqeta
Chief Technology Officer at Marqeta since May 2026, where the profile describes leading engineering across a global payments infrastructure serving large brands. Before that, Chief Technology Officer at LendingClub (2024–2026) and Chief Technology Officer at Hippo Insurance (2020–2024), and Vice President, Engineering at Bolt (2019–2020).
Moe Matar
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technology Officer · OnePay
Chief Technology Officer at OnePay since January 2024; the profile describes OnePay as building simple solutions to help customers save, spend, borrow and grow money, backed by Walmart and Ribbit Capital. The profile also lists Managing Director, Global Head of Cloud at Citi (2020–2023) and Managing Director, Chief Technology Officer, Cards (Apple Card) at Marcus by Goldman Sachs (2017–2020).
Nikhil Vaidya
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technology Officer · PayU Finance
Chief Technology Officer at PayU Finance since August 2025. The profile also lists Chief Technology Officer at BeepKart (2021–2025), Head of Engineering at LazyPay | PaySense | PayU (2019–2021) and Co-Founder of DigiLend Analytics and Technology Pvt. Ltd. (2015–2019), noted as acquired. The headline mentions scaling fintech and e-commerce platforms.
Norman Sasono
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technology Officer · DANA Indonesia
Chief Technology Officer at DANA Indonesia since July 2019. The profile says the role covers technology vision, strategy and execution for financial services used by over 200 million users across payments, lending, investments and insurance, with a mandate spanning engineering, data, AI, infrastructure and cybersecurity. Earlier, Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer at Bizzy Indonesia (2016–2019).
Paresh Gangodker
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technology Officer · Upgrade, Inc.
Chief Technology Officer at Upgrade, Inc. since January 2022, after serving as SVP Technology at Upgrade (2017–2022). The profile describes Upgrade as a financial services company offering personal loans, credit cards and rewards checking. Earlier roles include Co-Founder and CTO at Uvamo (2015–2017) and VP, Technology at LendingClub (2012–2013).
Rodrigo Plumari Gomes
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technology Officer · Arcus, a Mastercard company
Chief Technology Officer at Arcus, a Mastercard company, since June 2025. The profile describes Arcus as providing real-time payments and generating interbank CLABEs for receiving and sending payments. Before that, Chief Information Officer at bineo (2024–2025); earlier roles include Software Architect - Apple & IBM Global Partnership at IBM (2015–2016).
Sateesh Reddy
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technology Officer · Tonik
Chief Technology Officer at Tonik since October 2024, after serving at Tonik as Deputy CTO (2024), Head of BA & UAT (2022–2024), Head Of Business Analysis (2021–2022) and Senior Product Manager (2019–2021). The profile describes spearheading Tonik, the first pure-play digital bank in the Philippines, and lists digital banking and product management.
Siddharth Patnaik
LinkedInExperience: CTO · Paytm
CTO at Paytm since March 2026. The profile also lists SVP Engineering at FinDro WealthTech (2025–2026) and VP , Head of Engineering at Upstox (2024–2025), and the headline describes scaling fintech and wealthtech platforms to millions of users, AI-first engineering, and 25 years building and leading engineering organizations.
Subhajit Gon
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Global Head of Technology · UNO Digital Bank
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Global Head of Technology at UNO Digital Bank since July 2024. Under that role, the profile mentions building Southeast Asia's first full-spectrum licensed digital bank, and the headline lists neobank, digital banking, core banking and payments. Before UNO, Global Head of Technology roles at NatWest Group (2018–2024) covering its CRM platform and enterprise banking platforms.
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Pick someone whose company's product and stage resemble yours, since running a payments platform, a lending stack or a licensed digital bank involves different systems and regulators. Check whether their CTO tenure is current or past and how long it lasted, so their experience matches the decision you face.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How did you structure engineering, security and infrastructure teams as transaction volumes grew, and what would you change in hindsight?
- 02Which parts of your platform did you build in-house versus buy from vendors, and how did regulation affect those choices?
- 03How do you balance delivery speed against reliability and compliance requirements when shipping new financial products?
About this directory
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