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Atul Bhandari

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Seattle, Washington, United States14 yrs 4 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Over 15 years of experience in technology and product marketing.
  • Proven track record of delivering multi-million dollar projects.
  • Expert in generative AI and personalized retail experiences.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C E-commerce expert with a strong focus on AI-driven solutions.

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Core Skills

LeadershipGenerative AiData AnalyticsCommunicationProject LeadershipTechnology ManagementFront-end CodingSoftware Architecture

Other Skills

Document ReviewOperations ProcessesStrategic ThinkingPerformance MeasurementProduct RequirementsTeam CultureStrategic VisionOrganizational AlignmentService-Level Agreements (SLA)Infrastructure DevelopmentMathematicsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cross-functional Team LeadershipTeam CohesionCreative Direction

About

Technology and Product Marketing leader with over 15 years of hands-on experience in launching large-scale enterprise level products, systems and customer experiences globally, across 20+ countries. I love the intersection of technology and product, solving complex problems with innovative solutions. I work backwards from customer needs to establish long-term multi-million-dollar business charters and develop high-performing teams to deliver. My experience spans retail, e-commerce, digital media & advertising, data analytics, real-time customer-facing service platforms, distributed content management, bigdata, content creation (image, videos, creative assets, long form articles/blogs), machine learning, generative AI and personalization. I excel in team building and have a proven track record of collaborating across multiple functional groups, including product, science, marketing, finance, legal, HR, privacy, PR teams, business intelligence, internal & external clients; and engaging at all organizational levels to develop solutions that address ambiguous, cross-organizational needs. Having navigated various professional landscapes, from being an individual contributor to leadership roles, I possess the versatility to operate effectively at both strategic and operational levels.Currently, I'm leading team of software managers, engineers, program managers & applied scientists to develop next-gen shopping solutions for making Amazon a top-level destination for customers to start their shopping journey, including launching a Content management and Experience targeting platform that powers a federated Research page experience, enables customers to discover, learn about, research and select products and services on Amazon. I have a proven track record of successfully delivering enterprise level projects for a number of private and government organizations - Amazon, Freescale, Samsung, HCL, DRDO, Department of Information and Technology, 36 Knots.- Proven effective technology leader for over 7 years.- Visionary and thought leader in building technologies to delight customers and drive business at scale.- Established a solid track record of delivering business results and exceeding performance goals at Fortune 100 companies.- Tech leader and expert in search engine optimization and building personalized Retail experiences.- Has led and built some of the largest automated online marketing programs and technologies.- Products, services, solutions - Data-driven decision-maker using statistical and analytical methods.

Experience

14 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Amazon

Sr. Manager, Worldwide Digital Advertising

Mar 2021Present · 5 yrs 2 mos · Greater Seattle Area · Hybrid

  • Advertising helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners to grow their presence on digital media and drive incremental sales of their products through Amazon. I established organizational vision for expanding advertisers reach on digital media (like YouTube, Pinterest, Bing, TikTok) through collection of marketing insights, and use them through techniques like SEO to optimize advertising content and increase conversion/sales. I hired and developed four teams including 10+ senior talent to deliver on related key initiatives- 1) Launched a Tier-1 Marketing context service WW that personalizes landing page experience for Amazon customers (onboarded 330+ content provider teams in Amazon), unlocking an annualized $951M net profit, 2) Automated content creation, crawling, indexation and publishing that yielded $500M+ net profit over last 18 months
  • and scaled it to a billion-dollar revenue stream, 3) Enhanced offsite creatives CX through incorporation of rich-media content like images, videos, reviews, ratings, buy-now CTAs and leveraged techniques like Generative AI, LLMs (Claude 3, Llama), RAG for generating customer-engaging content. Initial experiments produced $257M profit and 1372 bps improvement in click-through rates on billions of Ad impressions per day. I also designed a traffic reporting program that systematically models marketing data using ETLs, front-end BI solutions (Tableau) to inform data-driven decisions during business reviews.
Generative AILeadershipDocument ReviewProject LeadershipOperations ProcessesStrategic Thinking+40

Amazon.com, inc.

2 roles

Software Development Manager, Global Search Marketing

Jan 2020Feb 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Delivered experiences (Top Rated, Shop by Brand, Best Overall) that display associates, influencers & blog content on Retail website to promote product research and discovery ($170M customer impact). As next version, we are developing LLM generated upper-funnel shopping pages to assist customers in their research journeys. Separately, drove readiness activities on 60+ business critical services (at VP-level org) to standardize engineering best practices for high-velocity events like Prime Day (-53% reduction in customer-facing issues YoY). Further, fostered the spirit of collaboration and innovation within the org by establishing a well-defined operational process to assess launch readiness of systems (increased automated deployments coverage by 60%). Ideated and launched a Marketing optimizer system that automates creation, scheduling, execution and
  • measurement of experiments on external search engines like Google. This supports 14 countries with a user-friendly portal to run experiments in hands-off the wheel fashion, measured impact of $2.3B.
Generative AILeadershipProject LeadershipOperations ProcessesAgile & Waterfall MethodologiesStrategic Thinking+35

Software Dev Manager, Research & Discovery Experiences

Oct 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Leading the initiatives to make Amazon a top-level destination for customers to start their shopping journey, including building a Content Management and Experience targeting platform that powers a federated research page experience, that enables customers to discover, learn about, research and select products and services on Amazon. Managing a team of 11 high calibrated engineers to build an internal search engine that powers Amazon Research catalog, including building website hosting and rendering, content management and indexation, enterprise level SEO and personalized webpage experiences This is a critical company-wide initiative that helps Amazon to spread arms in research areas.
LeadershipOperations ProcessesTechnology ManagementTeam CultureService-Level Agreements (SLA)Infrastructure Development+19

Amazon

Senior Software Engineer, Search Advertising Tech

Sep 2016Sep 2018 · 2 yrs · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

  • Shepherded Free Search Team’s Page Creation Program, and architected Genesis – a closed-loop Webpage Creation, Hosting and Management platform, which helps Amazon Retail business to accelerate its pace of innovation and delivery in creating new Landing page experiences, targeting search queries on Google, Bing, and other search engines. Genesis boosted the performance of Free Search Team, and delivered $316MM in sales for the Amazon business in 2018
  • Leading Development of a new page experience called Endorsements, which is built on top of Genesis, and launches a new set of features that allows customers to discover products that are highly recommended by publishers and experts with long form articles. This is a flagship initiative to enrich the Amazon shopping experience with supplemental information to help customers make more informed purchasing decisions on Amazon. I am leading end-to-end delivery of this project, starting from concept to production. It will result in increased conversions for Amazon and will attract customers to start their shopping journey directly on Amazon.
  • Technologies & Tools Used : Coral, Sable, Herd, JavaScript, AJAX, Version Sets, Content Symphony, Horizonte, JSP, Spring, Octane, DynamoDB, G2S2, AmazonAPI, Shopping Portal, AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, S3, Data Pipeline, Redshift, Dataflux, EMR, Eider, Lucene, CloudSearch, Data Warehouse, EDX
Front-end CodingOperations ProcessesTechnology ManagementService-Level Agreements (SLA)Infrastructure DevelopmentProduction Systems+14

Amazon business india

Software Dev Engineer II, Worldwide Deals and Events

Feb 2014Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Led development of a Frontend page layout, Web rendering and Content management system (CMS) for Deals and Events team which can serve 10K+ Personalized Deals per sec. This aided Deals and Events team to launch vivid Deals Experiences in 16 countries across Desktop, Mobile and Tablet, discoverable through Search engines and custom-tailored to serve customer personalized use-cases.
  • Responsible for leading initiatives for Deals and Events team to drive enhanced Customer experience and make Amazon a customer preferred destination for performing Shopping Research during Holiday season and shopping events, including Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Prime Day.
  • Developed new features for the Deals and Events team that aided in providing an enhanced personalized Deals experience on Amazon Retail, across all device-types including Desktop, Mobile, and Tablet with releasing new features like: Filtering, Sorting, Pagination and Search indexing, aimed towards enhanced customer engagement, improving deals discoverability and scaling Deals across 16 countries worldwide
  • Shepherding design, development and launch of Deals and Events page hosting, rendering and management platform, enhancing Deals content experience with improved customer engagement features, building Deals data analytics pipeline, and rolling out Personalized and search engine optimized Deals discoverable through internal and external Search Engines, including Google and Bing.
  • Technologies & Tools Used : Mason, Perl, JavaScript, Ruby, AJAX, Underscore, Brazil build system, Page Framework, Pipelines, Version Sets, Apollo-deployment system, GIT, Backbone, NodeJS, Gurupa, Horizonte, JSP, Spring, Octane, DynamoDB, Sable, G2S2, Content Symphony, Weblabs, AmazonUI, Monitor Portal, LPT, Shopping Portal, CSM, Coral, Herd, Dataflux, Datapath, APIGateway, DDB, Eider, AWS Step Functions, HEX, IGraph
Front-end CodingService-Level Agreements (SLA)Production SystemsCode ReviewProblem SolvingPresentations+5

Freescale semiconductor

Software Engineer

Jun 2013Jan 2014 · 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Worked On: BlackBox automated test environment (ATE) used for testing and debugging LTE (4g mobile tech.) software of Freescale
  • The product virtualizes, automates the network layers in LTE and conducts unit and integration testing of the LTE- L1 software. Scripts and
  • binaries are written in C, C++ python for base station and user mobile communication.
  • Tools and Hardware Used: CodeWarrior, Teraterm, Putty, Filezilla, Transweb, Clear quest, Accurev, Wincmp, Beyond compare, Compass, 9131/32 boards (as basestation), TM500 (user mobile), Winmerge, Code Collobarator, Spectrum analyzer
Service-Level Agreements (SLA)Production SystemsCode ReviewProblem SolvingPresentationsSoftware Architecture+2

Hcl technologies

Software Developer

Apr 2012Sep 2012 · 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Production SystemsCode ReviewProblem Solving

Defence research and development organisation (drdo)

Full Stack Engineer

Jul 2011May 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Worked on a software hosted on MATALB for real time simulation of 6 DOF Flight Simulation.
  • Work On: Chat System and Leave Management Systemcludes contextual search and blogging)
  • Used Java Socket Programming for handling communication among multiple clients by building a multi-threaded Chat Server and performed Database implementation in LMS (Leave Management System) using JDBC MysSQL
Production SystemsCode ReviewProblem SolvingPresentationsComputer Science

Doitc : department of information technology & communication, government of rajasthan(india)

Software Engineer Intern

Apr 2011Sep 2011 · 5 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

  • Role : Database and Website Developer , Technlogies used : HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, PHP, MySQL Websites Developed: http://letmedrive.in/, http://www.healthandbeautyexpo.co.in/, http://36knots.com/
  • Work Done: Developed a Book Sharing Website (includes contextual search and blogging)
Production SystemsCode ReviewProblem Solving

36 knots

Frontend Developer

Jun 2010Mar 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos · Delhi, India

Production SystemsCode ReviewProblem Solving

Education

UW Foster School of Business

Executive Master of Business Administration — Marketing Analytics

Aug 2021May 2024

Delhi Technological University (Formerly DCE)

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) — Computer Software Engineering

Jan 2008Jan 2012

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Mehta Vidalaya

Jan 1996Jan 2008

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