Sagar Chandnani

CEO

Seattle, WA, United States13 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 13 years of experience in software systems development.
  • Led diverse teams to achieve high-impact results.
  • Proven record in building scalable customer-facing systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS engineering leader with extensive experience in scalable software systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

FintechOperational ExcellenceScalabilityTechnical LeadershipProduct DevelopmentStrategy

Other Skills

AJAXASPASP.NETArtificial Intelligence (AI)CC#C++Cloud ComputingCross-functional InitiativesDOMEngineering LeadershipHTMLHTML + CSSJSONJava

About

- Dynamic engineering leader with over 13 years of experience in developing scalable software systems, including 7 years in team management and 2 years leading engineering managers - Expertise in guiding diverse technical teams comprising Senior Engineers, Engineering Managers, Senior Product and Program Managers to achieve high-impact results. - Proven record of building and operating large scale, high visibility customer facing distributed systems. - Proficient in thriving within fast-paced environments and driving initiatives that lead to timely and impactful project delivery. - Skilled in orchestrating organization wide initiatives, collaborating across multiple engineering teams and organizations - Holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Univ of Southern California, USA

Experience

Amazon

5 roles

Software Engineering Manager - Alexa Shopping

Jul 2025Present · 8 mos

  • Helping Amazon Customers shop through Alexa

Software Engineering Manager - FinTech

Promoted

Dec 2021Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Amazon Fintech Amsterdam Site Lead
  • Led a 22-member engineering organization developing, maintaining, and scaling three high-visibility FinTech products, enabling Amazon’s global compliance reporting and indirect tax obligations.
  • Scaled the Amsterdam FinTech team from 8 to 20 members in two years, hiring a diverse mix of Senior Engineers, Product Managers, and Program Managers and growing Engineering Managers within team.
  • Established an 7-member Indirect Tax team (2024) to build a greenfield umbrella product streamlining indirect tax reporting, reusing multiple 1P and 3P products. This initiative is projected to save 200k manual effort hours annually, processing >5B transactions/month at scale.
  • Conceptualized and led the development of Leticia Framework, empowering engineers to build scalable shell applications and microfrontends (MFEs). Reduced MFE setup time from 120 to 5 developer days (95% efficiency gain), accelerating adoption across cross organization adoption, enabling 19 production MFEs within 10 months of its launch.
  • Scaled Report Central, a self-serve standardized reporting platform automating 375 unique reporting use cases, saving 21k manual hours annually, and improving global compliance, controllership, and governance. Drove its adoption strategy in partnership of multiple customer orgs, driving a 12x adoption increase in 2023 and further 3x in 2024.
  • Pioneered the Operational Excellence (OE) strategy for a 220-engineer organization (2023–2024), establishing annual OE goals, decentralized goal ownership, and a scalable metrics tracking model in collaboration with senior leadership and Principal Engineers.
StrategyFinTechOperational ExcellenceEngineering LeadershipOrganizational LeadershipCross-functional Initiatives

Software Engineering Manager - Alexa

Jan 2021Dec 2021 · 11 mos

  • Led the establishment of a full stack engineering team, focusing on backend infrastructure for seamless family coordination on Alexa.
  • Led backend and front-end engineering teams for Alexa’s Family Coordination Hub, delivering the Daily Schedule and Full-Screen Immersive Experience for Echo Show 15 in Dec 2021. This involved integrating 1P and 3P Calendar and Reminders to power customer’s Daily Schedule.
StrategyTechnical LeadershipScalabilityArtificial Intelligence (AI)Product DevelopmentCloud Computing

Software Engineering Manager - Alexa

Promoted

May 2018Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Managed and Supported Engineering for Alexa's Calendar and Email program
  • Some Key Customer facing product launches -
  • + Support for calendar on routines to get schedule updates at scheduled or voice triggered time
  • + Ability for customers to be proactively notified before start of the calendar event
  • + Monthly and weekly calendar views and email and calendar linking flow on Echo devices with screen
  • + Ability to move calendar events via voice
  • + Email program in i18n locales
  • + Added Support for "tell me when I get an email from Jon"
Strategy

Software Development Engineer

Dec 2014May 2018 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Extensive Experience building high impact and traffic, customer facing Alexa products in time/schedule space (timers, alarms, reminders, calendar)
  • + Architect and tech lead for launching Reminders on Alexa, from ground up.
  • + Engineering lead for launching Repeating reminders on Alexa
  • + Designed and launched AVS APIs for reminders and named timers and 3P skill APIs for reminders.
  • + Designed a scalable infrastructure and led dev efforts in Alexa Alarms space to launch Repeating alarms, custom alarm tones, cloud-based delivery for alarm tones, led hardware, Dynamo DB R/W and throttling optimizations to handle alarm morning spikes
  • + launched Ability for Alexa to add events to linked calendars
  • + Helped launch alarms and reminders features in i18n locales and on first screen-based Alexa device (Echo show family)

Cisco systems

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2012Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Played a key role in a platform component, SysDB (System Database) in Cisco’s Network OS called IOS XR. Sysdb infrastructure provides manageability infrastructure to all the management and data plane components in routers.

Education

Gujarat University

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Science

University of Southern California

Masters — Computer Science

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