Nov 2018 – Jan 2023 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Head of Engineering for Media shopping platform, engineering productivity/automation team, and organization's Infrastructure cost management.
• > Media Shopping Platform: Reinventing media (videos & images) experience for shopping actions across Amazon's mobile platforms.
• 1. Own the video and image shopping functionalities across all layers.
• 2. Support XX+ integration points on the shopping app impacting XXX M daily active users, across all platforms (android & iOS) and surfaces (tablets & phones), generating $XXX M additional revenue annually.
• > Engineering Productivity and Automation: Driving robust quality procedures and establishing ever increasing organizational standards.
• 1. Scale of automation systems include support for XXX releases annually with bug leak rate of less than 1.4%.
• 2. Reduced the developer cost to upkeep quality by 74% (YoY), and improved the release velocity by 65% (YoY).
• > Infrastructure Cost Management: Head of infrastructure cost management initiatives, yearly budget plans, and spending approvals for Core Shopping organization.
• 1. Established mechanisms that allow my organization to plan infrastructure spending, monitor expenditure, and plan for high volume events.

Aug 2016 – Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Aug 2016 - Nov 2018 — Engineering Manager, TV/Alexa Shopping
• Founded and led the shopping program on TV platforms (FireTV, AppleTV, Roku) consisting of 21 eng across both the platforms.
• Pitched and got the funding for greenfield TV shopping initiative. Brought Amazon on large screen smart devices and built a second screen experience to be paired with phones.
• Led the end-to-end development of shopping apps on FireTV and AppleTV. Delivered ~78 experiments generating $XX M positive revenue flow in 2 years.
• Led the re-architecture of the Alexa backend systems to support the needs of large screen shopping experience.
• Grew the team from 0 engs to 21 engs in 10 months, grew 4 eng to senior leaders, and structured the org.

Jul 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Led the development of a full-stack Android & iOS solutions for third-party freight capacity utilization. The program helped smaller freight capacity providers to work on a contract basis with Amazon and bid for the work.
• Led the end-to-end development of the apps for warehouses to list freight requirements, third-party truck drivers/companies to bid for routes, and the backend infrastructure to maintain transactions.

Jan 2013 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Worked on solutions for sorter and truck management in the sort-centers & fulfillment centers. Led the development of hand-held tools for building pallets, loading containers, and UI for setting sorter configurations.
• Proposed and developed a full-stack android application for loading & unloading that simplified the warehouse infrastructure setup process, and helped the fulfillment chain scale.