Aurash Behbahani Email & Phone Number

South San Francisco, California, US

I lead the database storage services organization which includes Change Data Capture (CDC), Distributed Consensus, Distributed Caching, and Relational Databases.

Seattle, Washington, US

Kirkland, Washington, US

Seattle, WA, US

I ran the virtual networking control plane and virtual networking metrics, analytics, and visualization organizations across Seattle, Santa Clara, and Bangalore locations. I grew the organization from a team of 10 to 80 engineers and SRE and delivered critical features and infrastructure for Oracle’s second generation cloud infrastructure.

Seattle, WA, US

In the Core Machine Learning organization I manage a team of engineers and UX designers to build core infrastructure that will enable Amazon businesses to leverage machine learning. We are building a fully hosted machine learning service that allows Data Scientists and Software Developers to quickly move from experimentation to production while leveraging.

Seattle, WA, US

On the Voice and Advanced NUI Shopping (VANS) team at Amazon, I owned shopping engagement, and focused on delivering key features to incentivize customers to try out voice shopping through Alexa. Features that my team delivered included:“What are your Deals” - An Alexa Feature that lets customers know about AlexaExclusive deals on Amazon.com“Where’s My.

Seattle, WA, US

On the video advertising team at Amazon.com, I managed the team that delivered the video platform used for Amazon’s short form video content ingestion, transcoding, distribution, metadata management, analytics.

Seattle, WA, US

• In the Search Experience organization I managed the team that owned Amazon’s Tier-1 search API service, which aggregated and delivered the search content used on Amazon.com and Amazon owned websites. This was a core.
• Category Optimized Layout: A feature that optimizes the layout of the search results based on the category affinity of the search.
• Fewer Terms More Results: A method of reducing query terms in order to find results for a customer where there are no matches for the customers entire string of keywords.

Seattle, WA, US

• As a software engineer for search experience I developed and launched multiple projects including:
• All Content Search - A way of integrating non buyable items in Amazon’s search experience.
• Smart Refinements - Relevance ranked filters for search results based on customer keywords.
• Mobile Layout for search results - a migration of search results to the search experience platform and implementation of a new design layout for the mobile web search results.

Redmond, Washington, US

At Microsoft I worked on a project called Active Directory Federated Services (AD FS). AD FS was a service built into Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows Server 2008 and is used to provide Web Single Sign-on for services and applications across organizational boundaries. I was part of the team that launched AD FS version 1.1, 2.0, and contributed to the.

Bulverde, Texas, US

At Futurex I wrote security software for their Hardware Security Modules (HSM’s) usedfor symmetric key management at Banks and in ATM machines. The software waswritten for embedded linux on a powerPC platform, and was designed to run on deviceswith small memory footprints.