Vladimir Bacvanski

Vladimir Bacvanski, PhD, is an experienced technology leader currently serving as Director of Wallet, Payments & Commerce Architecture at Apple since November 2024. Prior to this, Bacvanski held the position of Principal Engineer (Director) at Google from May 2022 to November 2024, overseeing the vision and strategy for API management on Google Cloud. At PayPal, from September 2017 to May 2022, Bacvanski contributed to scaling the platform to 1 billion daily active users and led initiatives in privacy and developer experience as Distinguished Architect and Principal Architect. Bacvanski founded SciSpike, a software development and consulting firm, and served as Owner and Vice President at InferData Ltd., focusing on software technology consulting for Fortune 500 companies. Bacvanski earned a PhD in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen University and completed the Oxford Executive Leadership Programme at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.