Anup Gandotra

Director of Engineering

Bothell, Washington, United States24 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over a decade of experience in high scale distributed systems.
  • Led multiple teams in developing innovative IoT solutions.
  • Expert in managing complex cloud-based architectures.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in IoT and cloud-based solutions with a strong focus on Fintech and streaming industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Amazon Web Services (aws)Technical DesignCloud Computing

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAnalyticsApache SparkBig DataBig Data AnalyticsCC++Core JavaCrypto ComplianceData AnalyticsData EngineeringData LakesData StructuresDesign Patterns

About

Over a decade of experience in building and managing high scale distributed systems to enable rapid business growth. Passionate about growing people and solving big hairy problems.

Experience

Coinbase

Senior Engineering Manager

Feb 2022Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · Seattle, Washington, United States

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Technical DesignCloud ComputingAnalyticsBig Data AnalyticsBig Data+3

Amazon web services (aws)

2 roles

Engineering Leader - AWS IOT Fleet Management

Jul 2021Apr 2022 · 9 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

  • AWS IoT provides secure, bi-directional communication between Internet- connected devices such as sensors, actuators, embedded micro-controllers, or smart appliances and the AWS Cloud. I lead Fleet Monitoring organization comprised of two software development teams. First team owns fleet index, target and monitor capabilities. Second team owns security anomaly detection and mitigations through device metrics generation and anomaly detection through statistical methods and sophisticated machine learnt models. Both services together enable remote management of fleet of devices.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Technical DesignCloud ComputingAnalyticsBig Data AnalyticsBig Data+1

Software Engineering Manager

Apr 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

  • AWS IoT provides secure, bi-directional communication between Internet- connected devices such as sensors, actuators, embedded micro-controllers, or smart appliances and the AWS Cloud. I lead IOT Search (Fleet Indexing) domain, which owns a managed service that to index, search, and aggregate IoT device registry data, shadow data, and device connectivity data (device lifecycle events) in the cloud. The service manages the indexing of updates for device fleets, registries, and device shadows. It provides a simple query language to search across this data.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Technical DesignCloud ComputingAnalyticsBig Data AnalyticsBig Data+1

Amazon

3 roles

Software Development Manager - PV Catalog Availability Systems

Jan 2019Apr 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Prime video is Amazon's product for streaming video on demand and live television in more than 250 countries. I lead the PV Content Availability systems domain. Built brand new foundational components to transform Partner delivered content rights for movies to Amazon intent of creating offer on the content. Date is ingested through APIs and data stores, stored for optimized processing and transformed to Amazon intent along with dynamic pricing & persist-able offers for customer ownership and distribution of content availability all prime video clients web, iOS, Android, Living room etc. with minimal latency and high availability. The platform will be extended to TV seasons and Bundles for Subscription, Transactional TVOD, Live Events and Channels business in 2020.
  • Reduced OE load of existing platform by 50% with consistent focus of primary oncall bandwidth.
  • Improved OE best practices for sister teams through OE mechanisms
  • Built brand new high performing team of SDEs and increased the size from 3 to 10 in 4 months
  • Delivered 7 new high quality launch ready components of 125 man-month effort well in advance of any interim milestone
  • Delivered high quality Tier-1 systems through remote team
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Technical DesignCloud ComputingAnalyticsBig Data AnalyticsBig Data+1

Software Development Manager - PV Catalog Distribution Platform & Services

Promoted

Jan 2017Dec 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Lead the Prime video Catalog Distribution Platform - Cross Domain Assembly pipeline, Cross Domain Data Curation, 5-Tier 1 Catalog Distribution Services. These critical distribution components are responsible for consuming upstream domain’s data like Metadata, Images, Assets and Rights & Offers, store data for optimized processing, cross domain data curation and distribution of millions of prime video titles to various prime video clients web, iOS, Android, Living room etc. with minimal latency and high availability APIs.
  • Deprecated 12 years old Tier-1 service distributing all catalog data to over 50 distinct Tier-1 clients use cases [Rolling Stone] and moved clients to modern global data shapes and concepts
  • Grew 2 high SDE-2s to Sr. SDEs and increased team size from 4 SDEs to 12 SDEs with 2 Sr. SDEs hired from Amazon teams outside Prime Video.
  • Pitched and got funding for 12 additional SDEs to solve business continuity risks and debottleneck Distribution Platform from VP, Prime Video
  • Fixed operational load from 50 high sevs per week to ZERO sev-2s per week
  • Delivered 80 SDE man months effort to build Live Events Platform with high quality production systems and interfaces.
Technical DesignCloud ComputingAnalyticsBig Data

Software Development Manager - Payments Platform

Apr 2016Dec 2016 · 8 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Payments platform supports transaction of Billions of dollars every day for all amazon customer and seller transactions. I lead the team owning Transaction state management for interfacing with over 50 external Banks and payment providers.
  • Delivered multi man month project execution plan for migration of SEALS [10 year old system] to next gen Payments Contract Management systems
  • Promoted one SDe-2 to Sr SDE. Managed Team of 8 SDEs and 3 Support Engineers
Technical Design

Amazon retail

Sr. Software Development Engineer - European Retail

Aug 2014Mar 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Luxembourg

  • International Technology mission is to enable cross country sourcing, availability and fulfillment in Amazon Retail stacks, which are deeply marketplace centric.
  • Unified Vendor Central platform for individual 5 EU marketplaces into single platform for simplified onboarding of vendors and catalog Items.
  • Designed, built and launched Tier-1 systems for integration of EU levy regulations in Vendor Selection Systems for source cost optimization.
  • Designed Vendor Affinity Calculator to source cost and availability optimization across EU marketplaces.
  • Mentored and grew 1 SDE-2 to Sr. SDE and 1 SDE-1 to SDE-2.
Technical Design

Amazon logistics

3 roles

Sr Software Development Engineer - Amazon Transportation Systems

Promoted

Oct 2012Aug 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Joined as entry level Software Developer in Transportation Configuration Systems with manual operations to configure Carrier (UPS/USPS/DHL/ etc.) data like Rates, Restrictions, Transit times, Schedules, Delivery Options, Coverage Zones etc. Architected, designed and built next generation Carrier Information Management Systems [CIMS] to ingest carrier configurations through APIs and UI / Excel interfaces and update the data configurations of Tier-1 Transportation Services serving millions of TPS along with full visibility on data propagation to business and service owners.
  • Scaled Transportation Carrier integrations from 100s to 1000s of carriers across all retail marketplaces.
  • Successful platform launches in 2012 which is fully functional and smoothly evolving standing the test of time.
  • Technical lead for the team of 10 SDEs to deliver 18 months long project
  • Designed and delivered optimization to existing platform to ensure breathing room of over a year to deliver next gen platform
  • Evaluated and used multiple workflow technologies and early adaptor of AWS Simple Workflow for supporting ingestion, validation, consolidation and deployment of carrier configurations
  • First Sr. SDE promotion in Amazon Hyd Dev Center.
  • Mentored and grew 5 SDE-1s to SDE-2s.
  • Delivered Isolation of transportation central platform to remove artificial availability risk of cross domain Tier-1 operations which was source of multiple large scale events.
  • Delivered Transportation visibility platform to map and update carrier coverage and delivery speed across the globe.
Technical Design

SDE-II

Apr 2010Sep 2012 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

SDE

Oct 2007Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Aricent

Software Engineer

Aug 2005Oct 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Telecommunication (VOIP) Protocol Stacks Developments
  • SIP Stack
  • IMS Stack
  • IMS Applications
  • IADE(IMS Applications Development Environment )
  • Language - C/C++

Mnnit,allahabad

BTech Student

Jan 2001Jan 2005 · 4 yrs · Allahabad Area, India

Education

Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science

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