Guruprasad J.

Engineering Manager

Seattle, Washington, United States15 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led teams to achieve 56% reduction in build times.
  • Drove $2.5M/year infrastructure savings.
  • Scaled systems to handle 22M+ requests per second.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack leader in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Strategic PlanningLeadershipClient DevelopmentMobile ApplicationsExtreme Scale

Other Skills

Analytical SkillsDistributed Team ManagementComputer VisionScalable ArchitectureReal Time SystemsGrowthAndroidiOSProblem SolvingCross-functional Team LeadershipHadoopDistributed SystemsOracleJavaComputer Science

About

Engineering Leader with 8+ years of management experience, including leading multiple SDMs and orgs across Amazon’s Prime Video, Kindle, and Shopping divisions. Scaled systems to 22M+ RPS, drove $2.5M/year infra savings, and launched customer-facing features across platforms. Proven ability to craft and execute multi-year org-level strategies, scale tech orgs globally, and influence senior leadership on product, hiring, and operational excellence. Specialties: Executive Leadership, Strategic Planning, Technology Roadmap, Innovation Strategy, Technical Leadership, Customer Centric Solutions. Big Data Processing Platforms, Tier 1 Highly available systems, Large Scale Financial Applications, Distributed Systems, Backend Engineering, Machine Learning

Experience

Meta

Engineering Manager

Sep 2025Present · 6 mos · Bellevue, Washington, United States · On-site

  • Leading the Revenue Optimization team under Facebook Monetization Product Infrastructure org.

Amazon web services (aws)

Engineering Leader

Jan 2025Oct 2025 · 9 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

Amazon

6 roles

Engineering Leader

Feb 2024Jan 2025 · 11 mos

  • Led Kindle Infrastructure teams at Amazon to enhance cross surface Build infrastructure and Developer experience.
  • Achieved a 56% reduction in Build Times for cross-platform builds, impacting 4.2M+ builds per year.
  • Spearheaded the implementation of a Kindle wide customer journey metrics tracking framework for A/B testing and automated test generation.

Engineering Head - X-Ray Live Services

Promoted

Jan 2022Jan 2024 · 2 yrs

  • Led four geographically multi-disciplinary engineering teams powering X-Ray Live Sports experiences for tier 1 events (TNF, UCL, PL)
  • 1. Proposed and delivered 3 multi-year programs and tech roadmap to scale X-Ray Live to 5x more properties, decrease launch and operational costs through Automation by 642 hours per season (16% reduction) and QA operations by 44 weeks per year (70% reduction). This was critical to expand and scale X-Ray to keep up with the Prime Video Sports expansion strategy
  • 2. Launched Ligue-1 23 season on the newly built re-architecture (Project Slingshot), redesigning 22 tier 1 services to reduce time to launch new sports property from 20+ weeks to 2 weeks
  • 3. Successfully scaled and launched the tech stack to handle 22X traffic to support the exclusive TNF 22 season on Prime Video
  • 4. Setup a 3-year vision in 2022 for QA automation to redesign the test suite and deliver automation on Mobile (iOS, Android) on all supported X-Ray properties which is now adopted by all of PV Sports QA
  • 5. Drove strategic alignment and built strong collaborations with critical teams in PV Sports to reduce duplication, leveraging, and retooling existing systems with Away-team works
Analytical SkillsDistributed Team ManagementComputer VisionScalable ArchitectureReal Time SystemsStrategic Planning+1

Software Development Manager

Feb 2021Jan 2022 · 11 mos

  • Built and led team of 16 front End SDEs geographically distributed across US and IN building front end experiences for Prime Video X-Ray org across iOS, Android, Web and Living Room platforms.
  • Launched Clip Sharing feature for Amazon Originals on iOS platform. This allows prime customers to select and share custom movie/tv segments (limit to 30 secs) to popular social sharing sites directly from their playback experience.
  • Launched "Fan Polls" feature for Thursday Night Football games (NFL) on Android platform. This brings in interactivity to allow Prime Video viewers to participate and engage with their favorite TNF game.
GrowthAnalytical SkillsClient DevelopmentMobile ApplicationsAndroidiOS

Software Development Manager

Jun 2017Feb 2021 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Led team of 16 SDEs and 1 SDM managing multiple Tier 1 services serving product data, image metadata to Amazon Search, Detail Page, Cart, Checkout and 100+ internal teams. Drove multiple tech improvement projects resulting in annual hardware savings of $2.5MM+.
Extreme Scale

Senior Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2016Jun 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Started as an SDE3 and moved to SDM role. Worked with a talented group of SDEs in building a scalable Data Warehousing solution using AWS technologies (EMR, S3, Glue, Dynamo DB, IAM) replacing conventional Oracle Datawarehouse clusters. Today it is the main tool used by hundreds of teams with Amazon in running on-demand, scalable and pay as you use big data workloads.

Senior Software Development Engineer

May 2010Feb 2016 · 5 yrs 9 mos

  • SDE in Retail Systems building services, data pipelines and reporting platform for managing various types of Vendor Contracts for Amazon Retail worldwide. Led the design and development of data processing pipeline processing 20B+ transactions (Customer Shipments, Returns, Orders, Vendor Shipments and Orders) daily generating booking and billing records for millions of vendors worldwide.
Analytical SkillsProblem Solving

Education

National Institute of Technology Karnataka

BE — Information Technology

Penn State University

MS — Computer Science

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