Sudhir Padhy

CEO

Seattle, Washington, United States25 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

25+ years of engineering leadership experience
Drove $300M+ in business impacts through AI innovations
Expert in organizational design and technical strategy

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on AI-driven solutions and enterprise transformations.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Machine LearningBig Data AnalyticsSoftware ManagementFraud PreventionPeople Management

Other Skills

AI AgentsAI Software DevelopmentAI-DLCAmazon BedrockAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache FlinkCC++Cross-functional Team LeadershipData StreamingData WarehousingDevice DriversEmbedded SystemsExtract, Transform, Load (ETL)Fraud Detection

About

Engineering leader with 25+ years of experience building high-performance teams and delivering large-scale, AI-driven software systems. Proven record of leading enterprise transformations in data, ML, and payments — driving $300M+ in business impacts. Expert in org design, technical strategy, and execution at scale. Passionate about fostering innovation, measurable impact, and operational excellence across global organizations. With expertise in AI software development, AI-DLC, and AI-based operational automation, I am committed to driving innovation and scalable solutions to complex challenges. My work supports Amazon's mission to enhance performance and streamline processes, contributing to the success of global operations through advanced AI-led strategies.

Experience

Amazon

5 roles

Sr Manager, Data and AI/ML, Payments

Promoted

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

Led multi-disciplinary teams in Software Engineering, Data Engineering, and Applied Science to drive AI innovations for Amazon Payments.
Spearheaded the Agentic GenAI automation platform, achieving a 40%+ reduction in operational task efforts.
Designed and implemented a machine learning-based payment optimization engine, resulting in over $130M in business savings.
Developed a real-time data aggregation platform that streamlined ML feature engineering, significantly reducing model iteration cycles.

Generative AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)AI AgentsBig Data AnalyticsMachine LearningAI Software Development+3

Senior Software Development Manager, Payments Post Processing

Jun 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

Leads Amazon Global Payment Post Payment Processing, Data and Amazon Just Walk Out Store payments teams.

Software ManagementExtract, Transform, Load (ETL)Data WarehousingMachine LearningSoftware DevelopmentData Streaming

Principal TPM, Payments

Promoted

Oct 2021 – May 2022 · 7 mos

Launched a strategic ML based initiative to enhance Amazon's capabilities to detect, prevent and take actions against bad actor sellers resulting in more than hundred million dollars of fraud prevention. The program was initiated based on Amazons response to Congressional Committee on 'Fake and Unsafe Products on Online Marketplaces'. Started as the first tech member of the program. Collaborated with multiple org inside Amazon and launched highly successful program with visibility to Amazon.com CEO.

Machine LearningFraud DetectionFraud PreventionRisk AssessmentBig Data Analytics

Senior Technical Program Manager, Payments

Jul 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Led the launch of Paidy payment option for our customers in Japan. Started as first tech team member of the program and led till we launched Paidy successfully for retail customers. Started as the first tech member of a strategic program to mitigate seller side fraud.

Senior Technical Pogram Manager, Payments

Jul 2017 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

Program managed the launch of multiple payment methods and features for Amazon India including UPI, Instant Bank Discount, Latency improvements, Purchase Success Rate improvements.

Intel corporation

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2011 – Jun 2017 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Managing team that owns all modem interfacing components in Intel modem. This includes AT command, Android RIL (Radio Interface Layer), RPC (Remote Procedure Call) and Mobile Broadband Interface Model (USB-NCM, FOR Windows), customer\network operator specific modem interfacing components (example Diagnostic Apps)
My responsibility included managing the team and developing the technologies in this domain. This includes people management, technology road map development, customer interaction, change control (approve, implement, review, test, release etc.), cross functional discussion, stakeholder management etc.
Apart from people management, widely contributed in new product definitions on a platform derivatives for not only smartphone but Internet Of Things (IOT), Mobile Routers, Machine to Machine (M2M) products (not based on Android, but like Legato, Yocto\Ofono etc.)

People ManagementMobile ApplicationsSoftware Project Management

Infineon technologies

Engineering Manager

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Engineering Manager for Infineon AT command module, where interfaced with leading OEMs using Infineon chipset for the next-gen smartphones. My responsibility was to build custom solutions for the customers like LGE, Samsung and Huawei etc. We had multiple projects running with each of these customers where customer used AT command for Modem communication\interfacing (communicating between our modem i.e. XMM6260 and Application Processor for Smartphone or PC in case of data-card etc.).
The work included training customer teams on how the AT command module works and help customer customizing AT command module as their wireless product like phone, data-card etc. The work also included understanding new AT command requirements, implement after discussion with other layers, test etc. Apart from these support and maintenance was also included.