Nityanand Rai

Engineering Manager

Seattle, Washington, United States20 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years of experience in software engineering leadership.
Expertise in scalable cloud-native architectures and GenAI solutions.
Proven track record of driving innovation in top tech companies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Engineering expert with a focus on high-performance computing and cloud solutions.

Contact

nityarai@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingMachine LearningSoftware ArchitectureHigh Performance Computing (hpc)Software DevelopmentTechnical VisionAlgorithm Development

Other Skills

Agile & Waterfall MethodologiesAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsBack-End Web DevelopmentC++Coaching & MentoringCommunicationComputationCross-functional Team LeadershipData StructuresDistributed SystemsEDAEngineering ManagementHands-on TechnicalHands-on Technical Leadership

About

Software Engineering and Technology Leader with over 20 years of experience driving innovation at industry leaders like Amazon and Cadence. Demonstrated expertise in developing core technologies, scalable cloud-native architectures, high-performance scientific computing systems, and cutting-edge Agentic GenAI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions. Skilled in leading globally distributed engineering teams, optimizing large-scale, mission-critical systems, and delivering impactful solutions across domains including e-commerce, healthcare, scientific computing, and language technologies. Holder of multiple U.S. patents and publications, with an M.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur.

Experience

Amazon web services (aws)

Engineering Manager

Jun 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 9 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Managing JVM Performance team of Java Corretto ( https://aws.amazon.com/corretto )
Led Amazon India Pharmacy Retail business tech organization, responsible for customer buying journey, frictionless ordering, external Pharmacists prescription validation workflow, Medical Consultants systems, and managing customer notifications. Increased average pharmacy order value by 14% and unit per order by 20%.
Delivered GenAI driven customer facing solution for understanding medicine from handwritten prescriptions and mapping medicine to the Pharmacy catalog items to improve customer experience in ordering journey while reducing order drop-off.
Led Fast Tax initiative, consolidating Tier-1 checkout and display tax services operating at 25K+ TPS, leading to 90% latency reduction and 35% accuracy improvement, in addition to annual saving in infrastructure cost.
Built and operated a scalable 3-way fund reconciliation platform utilizing AWS, reconciling 2B+ payments events annually. Reducing processing time for 15M+ remittance line items matching to ~6 hours from 1-2 days.
Delivered Amity, an AWS based self-service platform for automating reconciliation platform exception resolution. Leveraged data warehouse and data analytics to streamline exception handling, reducing Payment event exceptions by 50% and remittance exceptions by 75%. Improved financial accuracy and freed up resources for strategic initiatives.
Delivered development of automated onboarding platform for the fulfillment centers on the accounting systems, reducing onboarding time of nodes from 2 weeks to ~4 hours, in addition to saving SDE, PM and business bandwidth in manual work.
Led initiative of Oncall GenAI Assistant for improving team efficiency in ticket resolution basis SOP and ticket artifacts to provide resolution grounded to our team knowledge base.

Cloud ComputingMachine LearningLarge Language Models (LLM)Stakeholder ManagementHigh Performance CulturesTechnology Leadership+5

Cadence design systems

4 roles

Engineering Director/Software Architect

Promoted

Jul 2019 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

Managed and lead the team of scientist and engineers responsible for development of Cadence first in-house multi-physics conjugate heat transfer CFD solution. Hired and built effective team from ground up. Research and development resultant into building multiple distributed matrix solvers, including in house development using highly scalable geometric multigrid, iterative krylov space and distributed direct solver techniques along with various smoothers and preconditioners development from scratch. Delivered HPC (MKL, CUDA, MPI) state of the art massively distributed finite volume based in-compressible coupled PU and coupled temperature solver for conjugate solid-fluid thermal simulation with massively scalable, super low latency matrix solvers.

Software ArchitectureAgile & Waterfall MethodologiesMKLStakeholder ManagementDistributed SystemsTechnical Vision+10

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2015 – Jul 2019 · 4 yrs

Leading Cadence ESD product development effort. Speciality in developing efficient numerical algorithms for simulation software in C/C++. Distributed and multi-threaded direct solver and graph partitioner development for large scale(1B+ nodes) system.

Software ArchitectureDistributed SystemsTechnical VisionMathematical ModelingHigh Performance Computing (HPC)C+++3

Principal Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2011 – Jul 2015 · 4 yrs

IR/EM sign-off analysis, Early stage power grid integrity analysis, Power grid fast extraction, Power network optimization, ESD cells optimal placement analysis, Fast methods for effective resistance calculation.

Software ArchitectureDistributed SystemsMathematical ModelingHigh Performance Computing (HPC)Software DesignC+++1

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Jul 2006 – Jun 2011 · 4 yrs 11 mos

Library Characterization/Recharactrization of standard cells/memory for Timing/Power/Noise(ECSM and CCS) and Statistical models.

Data StructuresSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Software DesignC++AlgorithmsSoftware Development

Edooni solutions private limited

Co-Founder & CTO

Feb 2010 – Feb 2014 · 4 yrs · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Developed a cloud-based SaaS framework for customized test series, quiz and evaluation framework, onboarding hundreds of institutes across 20 cities.
Onboarded top coaching institutes like ALLEN, Bansal Classes, Arihant, Career Point, McGraw Hill, Narayana, maintaining a 75% client retention rate. Defined product roadmaps, set KPIs, and ensured revenue targets.
Scaled ALLEN’s Online Test Series to lakhs of annual paid users with high DAU/MAU. Boosted engagement by 20% using A/B testing and data-driven strategies. Deployed ML models, increasing revenue by 15%.
Expanded into Coding Assessment & Placement Prep, growing revenue by 25%. Built innovative products with proctoring technology, serving clients like CommVault, AMD, Cadence, Zynga, and Infineon.

Technical VisionTeam ManagementCommunicationProblem SolvingProgram Management