Adhyas A.

CTO

Danville, California, United States21 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

17+ years of experience in product delivery and engineering.
Led multi-million dollar businesses at Amazon and Cisco.
Two granted patents and an IEEE publication.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in SaaS and Fintech with expertise in product strategy and engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Big DataPaymentsSatellite CommunicationsTelemetryComplianceMachine LearningSpeech RecognitionSdnNfv

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsBiosCloud ComputingCustomer EngagementData MiningData ProcessingDebuggingDevice DriversDirector levelDistributed SystemsE-CommerceEmbedded SystemsEnterprise SoftwareFirmware

About

· 17+ years of strategic experience delivering successful products to market – Big Data, Instrumentation, Analytics, FinTech, World class SaaS Offerings, Cloud Platforms, User experiences, Speech-Text (Alexa), Amazon Music Telemetry, Compliance & Analytics, Machine Learning, Digital Payments and FinTech, Cloud Orchestration Platform, SDN, NFV and Virtualization/Cloud Products. · Single Threaded Owner for Multi-million-dollar businesses with direct responsibility and accountability: Amazon Digital Payments; Amazon Music Instrumentation and Telemetry; Cisco SDN Cloud Platform with multiple SaaS offerings; Alexa Speech Recognition Engineering Framework for Speech-Text Models. · Multiple product ownership with 0-$1M+ revenue. Multiple 0-10M customer adoption products. · Relocated and managed teams in Bangalore/Berlin and home-site California. Managed global teams and hired/established teams in EU/IN/US from 0-50+ people. · Entrepreneur for Self-Startup for a couple of years. Mid-Level Success in the venture. Ability to disrupt myself, learn new technologies and bring impact quickly. · 2 granted patents, 1 IEEE publication, Usenix Chair/Talks.

Experience

Amazon

Head of Engineering

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 2 mos · United States · Hybrid

Amazon Kuiper Satellite Ground Software Division (CTS), 2024 - Now
Working with Kuiper to help create scalable, sustainable and always available connectivity solutions
for the world. My teams drive the ground units software to interface with the satellites and provide
connectivity at homes/enterprise. Very exciting work, green field and redefining the way stuff works.
Amazon Music Data and Telemetry Teams (USA) 2021 - 2023
Owned Vision-Strategy-Execution for big-data platforms serving all of Amazon Music data needs for
real-time processing; and quality as well as compliance. Role includes managing and
growing teams in US, IN, Mexico and EU; and growth of services beyond Amazon Music.
Amazon Customer Reviews Teams (DE) 2020-2021
Amazon Digital Payments and Co-Branded Credit Card (IN) 2018-2020
Owned Amazon 1P Payment Instruments and Tooling to drive $xB per year, launched Amazon IN Co-
Branded Credit Card - CBCC, launched Amazon Payments Identity Platform (KYC compliance and
credit worthiness of customers), and owned Payment on Delivery Platform. Took Identity platform from
0-1M customers in < 12 months. Took CBCC from 0-1.4M (fastest in any AMZN geography).
Alexa Speech Recognition (USA) 2017-2018
1st hire for ASR-Infra in silicon-valley. Hired a team of ~35 under me. Owned ASR Infrastructure and
Engineering for ASR ML Engine and Benchmarking of ML models for all languages. Owned Stress
induction frameworks for production ASR deep learning models. Owned custom audio data set
generation services for model training – new data creation, data mining from public/private sources.
Reduced new language launch time from X to Y months and helped ASR grow from 5 to 50 languages.

Embedded SystemsPaymentsSatellite CommunicationsTelemetryBig DataDirector level+1

Cisco

Head of Engineering

Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 · 4 yrs · San Jose, California, United States · On-site

Joined Cisco SJC through the acquisition of Virtuata. Spent initial couple of years driving technical leadership for Cisco Virtual Switch N1K for datacenter use cases. Then worked with Cisco Fellow closely to help lead VTS (SDN NFV Orchestrator) development from ground up to customer adoption and revenue growth. VTS became 0-1M product in the first year and team scaled from 0-70+ across SJC and IN.

Stealth startup

Chief Executive Officer

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

Identified an on/off-prem value-add for chip/ASIC designers. Started a self-funded venture on this and got some traction with a few startup customers in the valley. Was able to successfully deploy early portion of the technology at a customer’s site. Executed a complete product design and business roadmap, only to be blocked by the large funding needed by the idea. Put it on shelf after burning out and joined Virtuata.

Nokia

Senior Manager and Principal Research Scientist

Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs

Spin-out within Nokia Research Labs. First Engineering hire. Idea was to merge mobility/cloud/virtualization to a single foldable device to act as Phone/Laptop using Windows/MeeGo OS. Built a team from 1 to 30 before Nokia collaborated with MSFT and MeeGo was killed, which killed my project. I also led academic collaborations (about $1M grant) with Georgia Tech and University of Houston. Mentored two PhD candidates. Paper published in IEEE INFOCOM. Co-Chaired few conferences.

Vmware inc.

Manager and Architect

Oct 2006 – Jan 2010 · 3 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Virtual Devices team owned all virtual machine device simulation – chipset, storage/networking devices, interrupt controllers, PCI and PCI Express simulation, virtual firmware, operating system bring-up and support etc.