Engineering professionals in Payroll software
Payroll engineering in this group covers US, global and local payroll: two of the ten each at Gusto and Deel, including Deel Local Payroll, powered by PaySpace, with others at Intuit, Paylocity, HiBob, SAP, UKG and Vistra + iiPay, where titles name SuccessFactors Cloud Payroll, embedded payroll and tax compliance. A call fits decisions on payroll calculation and tax engines, embedded payroll APIs, global payroll and PEO products or scaling a payroll engineering team.
Professionals to explore
Aaron Bush
LinkedInExperience: Associate Director - Engineering - Payroll · Paylocity
Aaron Bush has been Associate Director - Engineering - Payroll at Paylocity since 2024 and was Senior Manager - Engineering - Payroll (2022–2024) and Engineering Manager - Tax Compliance (2019–2022) there. Bush also worked as Manager Software Development at Waystar (2014–2019) and .NET Engineer - Lead at ZirMed, now part of Waystar (2013–2014), a fit for payroll tax compliance engineering questions.
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Ankit A.
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Intuit
Ankit A. has been Director of Engineering at Intuit since 2025, leading fintech engineering for the platform behind QuickBooks Payroll, which Ankit A. describes as paying over 5 million workers in the US, Canada and the UK. Ankit A. held Group Engineering Manager (2021–2025), Senior Engineering Manager (2018–2021), Staff Software Engineer (2015–2018) and Senior Software Engineer (2013–2015) roles at Intuit.
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Ashish Virmani
LinkedInExperience: Engineering Lead for Payroll Product · Gusto
At Gusto, Ashish Virmani has been Engineering Lead for Payroll Product since 2019, describing the role as Head of Engineering for Pay Group. Virmani was Senior Engineering Manager (2014–2019) and Staff Software Engineer (2012–2014) at Twitter and Software Development Engineer II at Microsoft (2008–2012), a fit for questions on the core payroll product at Gusto.
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Guy Webb
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Product Development and IT · Vistra + iiPay
Global payroll product development fits Guy Webb, whose titles at Vistra + iiPay run from Development Team Leader (2015–2016) through Product Development Manager (2016–2020), Product Development Director (2020–2022) and Senior Director, Product Development (2022–2024) to Senior Director, Product Development and IT since 2024.
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Hagai Levin
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering, Payroll · HiBob
Payroll engineering at HiBob is Hagai Levin's area as Senior Director of Engineering, Payroll since 2024, after Director Of Engineering there (2021–2024). Levin also held Head Of Engineering (2020–2021) and Director Of Engineering (2020) at Melio and Director Of Engineering - Billing and Payments at WeWork (2019–2020), and describes building and leading groups in B2B and B2C SaaS companies.
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Ivelin Georgiev
LinkedInExperience: Senior Engineering Manager · UKG
Enterprise payroll and financial platforms in highly regulated environments are what Ivelin Georgiev describes delivering, along with scaling teams across jurisdictions. Georgiev has been Senior Engineering Manager at UKG since 2026 and Lead Technical Architect there since 2023, with Engineering Manager at UKG (2023–2026) and Technical Solutions Architect at Immedis, a UKG Company (2021–2023).
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Matt Shannon
LinkedInExperience: Head of Engineering, Embedded Payroll (Developer Platform) · Gusto
From 2022 to 2025 Matt Shannon was Head of Engineering, Embedded Payroll (Developer Platform) at Gusto, and has been Head of Engineering, Core Experiences AI there since 2025. Head of Engineering, Payroll at Square (2019–2022) adds a second payroll engineering seat, alongside Engineering Manager at Lyft (2018–2019) and Head of Engineering at Clover Health (2015–2018), making Shannon the strongest fit here for embedded payroll API questions.
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Peter Elter
LinkedInExperience: Vice President SAP SuccessFactors Cloud Payroll Engineering · SAP
Vice President SAP SuccessFactors Cloud Payroll Engineering at SAP since 2012, Peter Elter was Team Lead Color Applications at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (2001–2012) and a Research Assistant at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (1996–2001). Well over a decade in one cloud payroll engineering seat makes Elter a fit for questions on enterprise payroll platforms.
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Rowan L.
LinkedInExperience: Director of Software Engineering · Deel Local Payroll, powered by PaySpace
Local payroll engines within Deel are a good topic for Rowan L., Director of Software Engineering at Deel Local Payroll, powered by PaySpace since 2025 and Technical Lead Developer there (2019–2025). Rowan L. also worked as Senior Developer at Kaleidocode Pty Ltd (2013–2019) and describes a background in software development and technical architecture.
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Sankaranarayanan Mahadevan
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Deel
Sankaranarayanan Mahadevan has been Director of Engineering at Deel since 2024, leading 90+ engineers across 6 teams in the Payroll org covering US Payroll, PEO and Benefits. Mahadevan was Senior Engineering Manager (2019–2023) and Lead Engineer TLM (2018–2019) at Rippling and held Manager and Staff Software Engineer roles at Visa (2016–2018), and describes 14 years as a full-stack engineer.
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Choose the right perspective
US payroll and tax compliance questions fit Ankit A., Aaron Bush, Ashish Virmani and Sankaranarayanan Mahadevan, who also covers PEO and benefits, and embedded payroll APIs fit Matt Shannon. Global and multi-country payroll fit Guy Webb, Ivelin Georgiev and Rowan L., enterprise cloud payroll fits Peter Elter at SAP, and Hagai Levin suits payroll engineering at HiBob.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you test payroll and tax calculation changes so that a rule update never produces a wrong paycheck?
- 02What is hardest about building payroll for many countries on one platform compared with partnering with local providers?
- 03Which parts of an embedded payroll API cause the most support load for the partners who build on it?
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