Senior Software Development Manager
Current• Currently leading the Amazon Translation Services Tech organization building Amazon and industry’s most cost efficient Language Translation platform for Amazon’s millions of worldwide customers. • Previously, led the Inspirational Shopping org at Amazon's Personalization group building inspirational social shopping experiences for millions of Amazon customers using latest technologies like Generative AI/LLM to generate and present personalized content at scale that entertains and engages customers.• As a single threaded leader, owned the Amazon's Employee Services Tech group's product and engineering teams focused on building enterprise solutions for Amazon's massive workforce. Responsible for building the engineering and product orgs from scratch in 5 locations (Seattle, Arlington, Dallas Hyderabad, San Francisco), rapidly growing to 75+ org size within 6 months. Defined the 3 year tech and product roadmap for the org.• Single threaded leader of the Alexa Music’s core backend music platform that provides music skill building primitives for third party developers and runtime capabilities for Alexa Music. Defined the team’s vision, roadmap and organization, identified unique charters and spun off three independent teams. Interfaced with Distinguished engineers, Sr. Principals, Directors and Sr. managers across multiple organizations to evangelize team charter and align on platform evolution strategy. Launched Alexa Music Skills Kit which enables 3P music providers to self-onboard on to Alexa reducing launch time from 4+ months to 5 weeks. Drove operational and cost efficiencies via re-architecture of a monolithic platform into a scalable/distributed system with full CI/CD operating at ~100K TPS. Grew the team to a size of 45+ (from 10) within 9 months. • Owned the Corporate Gift Cards online and brick-and-mortar tech platforms ($4B business) and launched several incentive-based products (Amazon Cash, Amazon Gift Cards on Demand via APIs, Bulk email Gift Cards)