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Ronak Vyas

Ronak Vyas is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Lead.

Ronak leads the engineering organization responsible for building and operating Lead’s financial infrastructure platform, spanning payments, lending, cards, accounts, and stablecoin products. Drawing on his expertise in large-scale distributed systems, he architected and helped build the platform from the ground up to serve fintechs ranging from early-stage startups to public enterprises. Under his technical leadership, the platform delivers the low latency, high availability, and scale required for always-on financial operations.

Previously, as Head of Engineering for Square Capital at Block, Inc. (formerly Square, Inc.), he led the teams that built its core lending platform and the foundational banking infrastructure powering Square Financial Services (SFS). Prior to Block, Ronak held senior engineering leadership roles at VeriSign, EXP Systems, and Sabre before serving as VP of Engineering at Yahoo. There, he re-architected Yahoo Mail, one of the world’s largest platforms, serving hundreds of millions of active users and processing hundreds of billions of daily transactions.

Ronak holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from BITS Pilani, India, and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University.

Ronak Vyas

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer

Ronak Vyas is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Lead.

Ronak leads the engineering organization responsible for building and operating Lead’s financial infrastructure platform, spanning payments, lending, cards, accounts, and stablecoin products. Drawing on his expertise in large-scale distributed systems, he architected and helped build the platform from the ground up to serve fintechs ranging from early-stage startups to public enterprises. Under his technical leadership, the platform delivers the low latency, high availability, and scale required for always-on financial operations.

Previously, as Head of Engineering for Square Capital at Block, Inc. (formerly Square, Inc.), he led the teams that built its core lending platform and the foundational banking infrastructure powering Square Financial Services (SFS). Prior to Block, Ronak held senior engineering leadership roles at VeriSign, EXP Systems, and Sabre before serving as VP of Engineering at Yahoo. There, he re-architected Yahoo Mail, one of the world’s largest platforms, serving hundreds of millions of active users and processing hundreds of billions of daily transactions.

Ronak holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from BITS Pilani, India, and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University.