Guruprasad J. — Engineering Manager
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
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack leader in the SaaS industry.
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Experience: 15 yrs 10 mos
Skills
- Strategic Planning
- Leadership
- Client Development
- Mobile Applications
- Extreme Scale
Career Highlights
- Led teams to achieve 56% reduction in build times.
- Drove $2.5M/year infrastructure savings.
- Scaled systems to handle 22M+ requests per second.
Work Experience
Meta
Engineering Manager (6 mos)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Engineering Leader (9 mos)
Amazon
Engineering Leader (11 mos)
Engineering Head - X-Ray Live Services (2 yrs)
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Senior Software Development Engineer (1 yr 4 mos)
Senior Software Development Engineer (5 yrs 9 mos)
Education
BE at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
MS at Penn State University