Barun Patra

Principal Product Manager @ Circle

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

About

I’m currently a Principal Product Manager at Circle, where I work on scaling the Circle Payments Network and building the future of global payments infrastructure. Previously, I led Product at Sentra and Leap Wallet. At Sentra, we focused on reimagining payments using stablecoin rails. At Leap, I helped build a multichain wallet trusted by over a million users. Before that, I headed Product at Pariksha, an ed-tech startup aimed at helping users across Bharat prepare for government exams. Outside of work, I enjoy playing football and badminton, and I’m a regular Age of Empires II player. I spend an unhealthy amount of time on Reddit, read whenever I can, play the keyboard, write occasionally, and watch 3Blue1Brown and other fascinating content across the web.

Experience

  • Principal Product Manager at Circle
    Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • Head of Product at Sentra
    Jun 2025 - Mar 2026 · 10 mos

    Building Sentra – a stablecoin orchestration layer for APAC and are seeing strong early PMF. Hiring for key lead roles across engineering, strategy and growth! Hit me up

  • Product Lead & Founding Team at Leap Wallet
    Nov 2021 - Mar 2026 · 4 yrs 5 mos

    A multichain non-custodial Wallet for top ecosystems like Cosmos, EVM, Move & SVM with over a million users!

  • Head of Product at Pariksha.Co
    Jan 2018 - Feb 2022 · 4 yrs 2 mos

    Scaled Pariksha App from scratch to over 5m users and 250K+ paid subscribers

  • Career Break at null
    Jun 2017 - Dec 2017 · 7 mos

    Played over 2000 hours of Age of Empires 2 on Voobly I still play AoE2 once in a while with a couple of my friends. If you are game, hit me up with your favourite map (Rage Forest is the only correct answer)