Vamsikrishna Bhagavatula

Director of Engineering

Seattle, Washington, United States23 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in FinTech and E-Commerce solutions.
Proven leadership in managing global engineering teams.
Strong background in payment systems and customer experience.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-Commerce expert with strong leadership in payment systems and customer experience.

Contact

vamc_k@yahoo.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProgram ManagementCustomer ExperienceTechnical Architecture

Other Skills

ACH PaymentsAPARAccountingAgile MethodologiesArchitectureBusiness InsightsCCloud ComputingComputer ArchitectureCustomer InteractionDistributed SystemsE-CommerceElectronic PaymentsExecutive Visibility

About

Experience in Retail, Finance, and Mobility. Broad expertise in AP, AR, Payment systems and pricing tools. Deep domain understanding across the entire retail/e-commerce space. Specialties: Engineering, Product and Program Management, Retail, FinTech, Payments, Mobile Apps, E-Commerce, Pricing, Customer Experience, Seller/Vendor Experience, Financial Reporting, Taxation, and Accounting.

Experience

23 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

13 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Amazon

6 roles

Director Software Development, FinTech

Promoted

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Leading a globally distributed multi-functional engineering team for AP, AR and Payment systems.

APARPayment systemsProduct ManagementProgram Management

Sr. Mgr. Software Development, Fintech

May 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Executive VisibilityCustomer InteractionMulti-siteTechnical ArchitectureElectronic PaymentsCustomer Experience+9

Sr. Mgr. Software Development, Selling Partner Payments

Jan 2019 – May 2022 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Leading Product, Engineering and Program Management teams across Seller and Vendor Payments including Experience (UX, API's and Mobile Apps in Seller and Vendor Central), Regulatory and Non-Regulatory Financial Reporting, Invoicing (AP/AR), Returns, Disputes, and Financial Transparency. Bootstrapped and managed organizations across three international locations. Leading a globally distributed 90+ person organization.

Team MotivationExecutive VisibilityCustomer InteractionMulti-siteTechnical ArchitectureCustomer Experience+8

Software Development Manager, Selling Partner Pricing

Oct 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Leading Amazon Marketplace third party pricing experience tech teams spread across discounted pricing, lower priced alternative products, pricing experience, pricing guardrails, error prevention, and reference pricing.

Team MotivationExecutive VisibilityCustomer InteractionTechnical ArchitectureCustomer ExperienceArchitecture+6

Senior Technical Program Manager

Promoted

Apr 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos

Leading multiple initiatives across Amazon.IN, EU Auto and Javari/Endless (a subsidiary of Amazon specializing in Soft lines in five countries -US, FR, DE, JP, UK). Managed WW programs across the entire retail stack from the consumer facing shopping experience, to the last mile delivery experience, to reducing product returns.

Executive VisibilityCustomer InteractionFunctional LeadershipMulti-siteTechnical ArchitectureCustomer Experience+4

Technical Program Manager

Nov 2011 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Rebuilt the entire checkout stack for Endless, Javari, MyHabit and Javari. Owned programs to increase traffic to the sites including Email campaigns, and launches of mobile applications. Bootstrapped a new initiative to recommend shoe sizes to customers shopping on Amazon.com

Nokia

Architect

Feb 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Pixi is the collaboration project between Microsoft and Nokia to bring Business applications to the Symbian Platform.
I have played multiple roles in both Engineering and Product Management, namely, as Product Owner, Engineering Manager and Architect on the Business Productivity application suite.
Technically managed development of Top Of Mind, Out of Box Experience and Sharepoint features.
Additionally, also developed/improved core platform components like search and URL handling, for use by pixi applications.
Led a team of 15+ engineers and simultaneously be involved in engineering and product collaboration discussions with Microsoft.

Customer InteractionTechnical ArchitectureCustomer ExperienceArchitectureComputer ArchitectureProduct Management+1

Microsoft

Software Design Engineer

Jun 2005 – Jan 2010 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Word Mobile is part of the Office Mobile suite of applications running on Windows Phone. As an SDE, I was responsible for the design and implementation of:
The Outline View feature. Developed, proprietary heuristics to map a document to enable the customer to quickly find the most relevant content in the document.
Implemented undo-redo of edits made in word documents.
Rolled out charts in .doc and .docx file formats for word mobile.
Implemented a generic gesture handling framework usable across all office mobile applications.

Trilogy

Technical Associate

Apr 2004 – Jun 2005 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Worked as a Developer/Integration consultant on the StandAlone Configurator Service and Knowledge Base Quality Manager, which were test farms against which configuration models were tested. Development in Java/jsp, tomcat, apache, perl, shell

Techspan india ltd

Software Engineer

Jan 2002 – Mar 2004 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Noida Area, India

Worked on Advisor and Director Essential, which are call centre Work Force Management softwares. I was responsible for the creation of Load Test scripts on Silk Performer and Silk Tool scripts for regression testing.