Vikas Nahar

CEO

Seattle, Washington, United States19 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led modernization saving $35 million in work hours.
Achieved 250% productivity increase in engineering teams.
Mentored team members to 10+ promotions in 3 years.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Data Engineering expert with a strong focus on software development and analytics.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software Development ManagementTechnical StrategyTechnical ArchitectureData EngineeringBig Data AnalyticsBusiness Intelligence

Other Skills

Team ManagementOperational ImprovementsProject ManagementSoftware ReliabilityMentoringRequirements GatheringMachine LearningProductivity Improvement ToolsBig Data Platform DevelopmentData Warehouse DesignData ProcessingData Warehouse DevelopmentKPI MeasurementAutomationReport Development

About

Objective: Provide strategic leadership at scale for organizations seeking to deliver complex distributed software and analytical solutions. Experience Summary: Proven senior leader of multiple foundational & platform services (5+) across AWS Security, Amazon Advertising, and Compliance organizations. Leadership experience of managing multiple technical teams of 20+ members. 15+ years of technical experience in Software engineering and Big Data analytics.

Experience

19 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

4 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Amazon web services (aws)

2 roles

Software Development Manager at AWS - S3

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Software Development Manager at AWS - Cryptography

Nov 2021 – Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Owner of a key platform service leveraged by 100% of teams in Amazon. Led two line managers with and overall staff footprint of 20+.
Delivered a technical strategy for modernizing a platform service which saved $35 million dollars of work hours (or the equivalent of 170 years!).
Drove alignment up to Chief Information Security Officer of Amazon to invest in the modernization efforts leading to additional funding and growth of the team.
Led 110% team growth (10+ to 20+) at the time when Amazon was downsizing by influencing senior leadership to invest in the team and team strategy.
Established and managed scalable engineering team structures, operational improvements, and project management practices.
o Increased the org productivity by 250% and delivered on 7 key initiatives in 2024 to improve availability, security and operational posture compared to 2 in 2022.
o Achieved 60% reduction (150 vs 350 tickets / month) in operational load by prioritizing root cause resolutions.
o Owned the technical roadmap to decrease launch durations from 10+ days to 2 days and successfully launched the service 15+ AWS regions.
o Improved the software reliability and deployment frequency by 3X for a software agent running on 8M+ hosts in Amazon.
Coached and advocated for individuals across different job families
o Mentored team members to achieve 10+ promotions in 3 years across Software manager and Software engineering roles.
o Maintained low attrition of <5% per year through team training seminars and morale building exercises.

Technical StrategyTeam ManagementOperational ImprovementsProject ManagementSoftware ReliabilityMentoring+1

Amazon

2 roles

Software Development Manager - Amazon (Denied Party Screening)

Dec 2019 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

Role: Owner of a team (6+ SDEs) owning productivity improvement tools used by 250+ operators globally for working on denied party screening workflows.
Owned the requirements gathering, planning, implementation and launch of 1-click data consolidation platform for consolidating 100+ metrics across 20+ systems
Reduced the case handling time by 85% (~7 days to 1 day) by launching 1-click request for information tooling.
Owned the technical architecture and technology strategy for developing machine learning platform and reduced the number of cases created for manual intervention by over 90%.
Mentored & led 2 promotions across Software engineering roles.

Requirements GatheringTechnical ArchitectureMachine LearningProductivity Improvement ToolsSoftware Development Management

Data Engineer/ Technical Program Manager - Amazon Advertising Analytics

Jan 2016 – Nov 2019 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Role: Lead data engineer and the product owner of the data warehouse used by Advertising Finances, Sales, and Marketing teams for reporting and marketing workflows.
Architected, designed and developed a big data platform to support 1,500+/ day analytical workloads to support C-level financial reporting and marketing workflows.
Designed and developed datasets for enabling advertiser recommendation engine leading to $1M monthly incremental revenue.
Improved the latency of data warehouse by 83% (72 hours to 12 hours) by moving to near real time processing of big datasets.

Big Data Platform DevelopmentData Warehouse DesignData ProcessingData EngineeringBig Data Analytics

Parallon

Business Intelligence Analyst

Sep 2015 – Jan 2016 · 4 mos · Greater St. Louis Area

- Developed a data warehouse for consolidating data from case management and call center datasets and built 15+ KPIs for measuring operator productivity.

Data Warehouse DevelopmentKPI MeasurementBusiness Intelligence

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Co-Founder

Feb 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater St. Louis Area

Daugherty business solutions

Sr. Consultant

Jul 2014 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · St. Louis

Role: Lead data engineer and the product owner of the Core Financial Reporting data warehouse used for financial analytics.
Designed, implemented, and coordinated the features releases and bug fixes for the reporting platform.
Architected and coordinated the ‘Automation’ of Quarterly and Monthly archive cubes resulting in a saving of 16 hours/month of manual work.
Enabled the company to retain the Microsoft Gold partner recognition by completing Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert certifications and trained 5+ team members.

Data Warehouse DesignAutomationData Engineering

Parallon

BI Developer/ Analyst

May 2011 – Jul 2014 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Greater St. Louis Area

Role: Lead data engineer and the product owner of enterprise wide reporting solutions used to deliver client reports and CXOs for making operational decisions.
Designed, developed and validated 50+ SSRS reports like Account Analysis, Account Aging, Invoice Reports etc. for 100+ clients and developed 5+ dashboard reports for C-Level executives.
Led the selection and negotiations for enterprise wide report scheduling & automation
Designed and implemented a scheduling framework using SQL-RD to automate generation of 500+ reports/month for clients and executives
Developed a reconciliation engine framework to reduce the new client onboarding from ~14 days to 1 day.

Report DevelopmentAutomation FrameworkBusiness Intelligence