Yash Sinha

Director of Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States10 yrs 1 mo experience

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Key Highlights

Director of Engineering leading AI conversational agents.
Expert in Generative AI and Large Language Models.
Proven track record in scaling distributed systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a focus on AI-driven solutions and engineering leadership.

Contact

yashraaj8@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementGenerative AiTechnical DesignMachine LearningSoftware Development Life Cycle (sdlc)Web ProductsMobile Application DevelopmentSoftware Design

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache SparkArchitectural DesignCC (Programming Language)Cloud ApplicationsCoachingCoaching & MentoringCommunicationConversational AICore JavaCross-functional Team LeadershipData Science

About

Director of Engineering & Product at Convai | Building intelligent conversational agents | Past Amazon, Goldman Sachs, CA Technologies | CS Grad from University of Florida | BITS Pilani Alum

Experience

Convai

3 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Jun 2025 – Present · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Oversee product strategy and engineering for AI conversational avatars at Convai. Lead cross-functional teams across Applied Research, Backend, Frontend, and Game Engine development. Partner with executive leadership on roadmap definition, execution, and scaling.
Driving innovation in real-time lip-sync, facial expression systems, and agentic AI
Scaling distributed systems and low-latency inference pipelines on GCP & AWS
Guiding long-term product vision, strategy, and organizational growth
Mentoring and enabling high-performing engineering and product teams

Technical Project LeadershipDistributed SystemsEngineering ManagementPerformance ManagementTeam ManagementArchitectural Design+12

Engineering Manager

Oct 2023 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

As the EM for Unity team, I focus on streamlining development, ensuring effective resource allocation, and maintaining alignment with our project timelines and company objectives.

EngineeringCross-functional Team LeadershipLong-term VisionTechnical DesignWeb ProductsPerformance Appraisal+22

Machine Learning Lead

Jul 2023 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

I lead the Character Animations initiative at Convai, where we're making strides in Lip Sync, Facial Expressions, and Natural Body Movements. My role involves blending art with advanced machine learning to create characters that resonate emotionally and realistically with audiences.
In addition to driving technological innovation, I play a critical role in shaping our company’s strategic processes and vision. I collaborate closely with directors from various departments, ensuring our goals and methods are aligned and effective. A key part of my role is tackling and resolving blockers that arise in our projects. I take pride in my ability to quickly identify issues and implement solutions, ensuring smooth and efficient progress across our teams. This not only keeps us on track but also fosters a proactive and solution-oriented culture.
I’m passionate about pushing the boundaries in AI and animation and am always open to connecting with like-minded professionals and innovators in this exciting field. Come join us in our journey at Convai!

EngineeringMachine LearningTechnical DesignDistributed SystemsPythonGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)+19

Amazon

SDE II

Mar 2019 – Jul 2023 · 4 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco, California

SDE in Fulfillment Promise team in F3 org (Fresh Food, Fast) within Amazon. Responsible for building and maintaining various distributed systems that supports order fulfillment for Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods etc.
Worked as a full-stack engineer in the Discovery and Community (Disco) team at Goodreads.
Designed and developed various core features on the Goodreads website and mobile apps like recommendations, newsfeed, authentication, social graph.
Revamped a 10 year old recommendation engine responsible for surfacing book recommendations on website and apps which led to ~4x increase in user shelvings on the recommendations page.
Designed and developed a system responsible for building social graph for millions of users using AWS Neptune graph database which helped us get off a legacy system and improve the CX across the website and apps.
Revamped the Goodreads homepage/explore page with customer centric widgets to provide a personalized, curated portal to the rest of Goodreads—and where the best and most relevant books, content, and community updates for users are surfaced to the top
Designed and implemented a security system to prevent malicious authentication attempts on the site and apps.
Full stack web development, leveraging various technologies like Java, Ruby on Rails, Python, ML, GraphQL, AWS AppSync, AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, AWS DynamoDB among others.

EngineeringTechnical DesignAgile MethodologiesWeb ServicesTeam CultureSoftware Design+8

Goldman sachs

Software Engineer

Jul 2018 – Mar 2019 · 8 mos · Greater New York City Area

Full stack engineer in the platform team within Finance Engineering org at Goldman.
Worked on a self-service solution for data manipulation and analytics, with drag-and-drop capabilities, aimed at business users.
Tech stack including and not limited to Java, React, Spark, MySQL, Python.

EngineeringWeb ProductsAgile MethodologiesSoftware DesignCommunicationSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Ca technologies

Software Engineer

Jul 2014 – Jul 2016 · 2 yrs · Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

I worked as a part of Advanced Authentication team of Security Business Unit where I worked on different clients which leverage CA Technologies' risk-based authentication capabilities. The Advanced Authentication team developed and maintained a flexible, scalable solution with both strong multi-factor authentication and risk-based methods like device identification, geolocation, and user activity.
I worked on various technologies like iOS development, Mac Application Development, Android, C# and JavaScript.

EngineeringAgile MethodologiesMobile Application DevelopmentSoftware DesignCommunicationSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)