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Pankaj Gupta quits as Google Pay engineering head to join US crypto firm

Executive says he will build Coinbase's technology hub in India 'from scratch', hire people

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Google Pay competes with players such as Walmart-owned PhonePe, Amazon Pay, and Alibaba-backed Paytm, which are also making significant inroads.

Peerzada Abrar Bengaluru
Pankaj Gupta is leaving Google Pay after leading the company’s engineering in India and Asia-Pacific at a time when it competing with rivals for a share in the financial services market.

“I came in as an Apple fan-boy but leave wowed by the unimaginable reach of Android,” said Gupta, who was senior director of engineering at Google Pay and NBU (next billion users). He will join the US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, an online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency.

“I have a great sense of pride and gratitude to have been a part of the Tez rocketship aka Google

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