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Kranti Kumar Potanapalli

Director of Engineering

Seattle, Washington, United States18 yrs 1 mo experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led large-scale machine learning projects at Amazon.
  • Expert in real-time systems and data-driven decision making.
  • Strong background in engineering leadership and team management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned professional in E-commerce and Advertising with a strong focus on machine learning and system architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software ManagementEngineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipMachine LearningAnalyticsSystem ArchitectureAlgorithmsOptimization

Other Skills

Real-time SystemsReinforcement LearningC++JavaC#PythonPerlOctaveHaskellWeb ServicesLinuxShell ScriptingPowershellCData Structures

Experience

18 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
3 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Meta

2 roles

Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Software ManagementEngineering Management

Engineering Manager

Oct 2023Apr 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

Engineering LeadershipEngineering Management

Amazon

4 roles

Software Development Manager

Promoted

Jan 2020Oct 2023 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • I lead Search Whole Page Planning and Optimization and Analytics. My team is behind Amazon's Shopping Pages which personalize the search page understanding customer's search query. We build low latency, large scale real time machine learning inference systems to accomplish this. My current teams span across Boston, Palo Alto, and Seattle.

Senior Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2016Jan 2020 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Led Amazon Search shopping page engineering and built systems that power the shopping pages. I owned the architecture for large scale machine learning inference systems that personalize the shopping pages at real time. In addition to the technical architecture, I led the roadmap, goals and prioritization for the engineering systems.

Software Development Engineer II

Promoted

Dec 2013Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 10 mos

SDE Intern

Jun 2013Sep 2013 · 3 mos · Seattle, WA

Oregon state university

Graduate Research Assistant

Dec 2011Dec 2013 · 2 yrs · Corvallis, Oregon Area

Microsoft

Software Development Engineer

Sep 2010Dec 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos · Microsoft India Development Center

  • I worked on optimizing Ad selection on Bing based on explore-exploit algorithm framework.

Yahoo! india

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2008Sep 2010 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • I worked on optimizing the Ad placement on Yahoo Search pages.

Iit kanpur

Post Graduate Student

Jan 2006Jan 2008 · 2 yrs

Education

Oregon State University

Master of Science (MS) — Machine Learning

Jan 2011Jan 2013

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

MTech — Computer Science

Jan 2006Jan 2008

Andhra University

BTech — Computer Science & Systems Engineering

Jan 2002Jan 2006

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