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title: "Likhith Lanka - Product Manager - Card Payments Infrastructure in Hyderabad | Tal"
description: "Meet Likhith Lanka, Product @ Juspay | Card Payments Infrastructure | ex-Amazon | IIM Calcutta based in Hyderabad. AI stack includes cursor, opencode, and claudecode."
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# Likhith Lanka on Tal

## Headline

Product @ Juspay \| Card Payments Infrastructure \| ex\-Amazon \| IIM Calcutta

## About

I work on the infrastructure that processes credit card payments across 5 APAC markets\. Most days, that means designing how money actually moves between banks, card networks, and customers, and increasingly, building AI tools that help my team do this faster\. I also write about it\. You can find my posts on payments infrastructure, AI in product workflows, and what I'm building on the side\.

## Location

Hyderabad

## AI stack

cursor

opencode

claudecode

## Work experience

Product Manager \- Card Payments Infrastructure at JUSPAY, Aug 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 1 mo, Greater Bengaluru Area, Own the settlement & reconciliation platform serving 2 banking partners across 3 card networks \(Visa, Mastercard, RuPay\)\. Built a layered financial control framework from scratch — semantic validation, pre\-staging circuit breakers, and automated regression testing — achieving near 100% settlement integrity and zero duplicate transactions reaching card networks\. Drove 30% reduction in acquirer\-side declines through ISO 8583 compliance audits\. Built configurable compliance infrastructure spanning NPCI/RBI, MAS, Visa, and Mastercard regulations; scaling through configuration, not custom code\. Led AI\-driven connector migration for HyperSwitch using LLM automation, establishing prompt strategies and automated replay testing for validation at scale\.

Product Manager 2 at Amazon, Jun 2023 \- Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Forecast Automation, Capacity Planning, and BI initiatives

AFBP \- Intern at Amazon, Apr 2022 \- Jun 2022 · 3 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Worked in Worldwide Capacity Planning \(WWCP\)\. Developed a model using statistical analysis to predict the amount of customer service inquiries received by Amazon\. Received Pre Placement offer

Product Consultant at SupplyCompass, Jul 2021 \- Mar 2022 · 9 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, helped in building the back\-end

Back end lead at SupplyCompass, Dec 2020 \- Jun 2021 · 7 mos, built the back\-end with more autonomy

Back\-end Developer at SupplyCompass, Oct 2019 \- Dec 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, built the back\-end

## Education

Master of Business Administration \- MBA, Product Management, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Indian Institute of Information Technology, SriCity

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