Jan 2024 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area · Hybrid

• Led the open-source data streaming platform for Apache Kafka, fostering community collaboration and driving innovation.
• Defined strategic architecture and roadmap for core Kafka services, delivering key innovations like Queues in Kafka and Client Observability.
• Oversaw project development, ensuring the growth and success of the Apache Kafka ecosystem.

Mar 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Seattle Area · Hybrid

• Led the Kafka Developer Platform organization at Confluent, overseeing Clients, REST Proxy, Kafka Control Plane, Queues, Dev Ops, and Reliability Engineering.
• Developed and implemented strategies to enhance platform performance, scalability, and reliability, driving innovation and efficiency.
• Successfully managed cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions, contributing to the overall growth and success of the platform.

Nov 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Greater Seattle Area · Hybrid

• AWS Lambda (https://aws.amazon.com/lambda) is a serverless compute service that allows customers to run code (aka Lambda functions) without managing compute resources. AWS Lambda functions enable hundreds of thousands of active customers to run code for virtually any type of application or backend service - all with zero administration.
• I led the engineering organization (80+) responsible for Lambda Control Plane, Console and Developer Experience, Deployment Controls and Tooling, Fraud Detection and Prevention, Security, Privacy & Compliance for Customer & Function data, Cost Controls and Lambda Distribution Plane with focus on making Lambda delightful experience for developers, operators, and IT administrators.

Jan 2014 – Oct 2019 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Lead engineering and analytics teams (60+) responsible for the complete lifecycle of promotions, deals and coupons on Amazon websites worldwide. The platform powers everyday deals on amazon.com/deals (2nd most visited site, next to amazon.com) and also drivers the biggest event days like Prime Day, Black Friday and Cyber Monday globally. This includes deals and coupons across all categories for Amazon's Retail and Seller business globally. We launched a machine-learning powered, automated recommendation system for vendors and sellers with no human touch in the entire process.

Oct 2010 – Jan 2014 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Owned three core Amazon Fulfillment Systems: Outbound Fulfillment Planning, Transshipment and Shipment Data Platform. My teams were responsible for performing local inventory optimization within FC and owned Tier-1 services with a high throughput of 80k+ TPS. Started few cool initiatives like On demand box creation, Fast Track Transshipments, high volume picking, delivery oriented shipment. I managed a global team of Software Development Engineers, TPMs, Support Engineers, and Software Development Managers.

Jun 2010 – Oct 2010 · 4 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Managed team of implementers, architects and analysts for customizing remote bank and fraud detection solution for one of the largest retail bank of US.

Jul 2002 – May 2010 · 7 yrs 10 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Led large $XX MM engagements with Wall Street firms (Morgan Stanley, Bank of New York Mellon, UBS Wealth Management) to design and develop technology solution in the field of Trading Platforms, Derivatives Technology, and Stock Option Planning. Managed engineering teams consisting of 80+ team members across geographies.

Aug 2000 – Jul 2002 · 1 yr 11 mos · Santa Clara, CA

• Developed natural language processing data mining engine utilizing patent-pending linguistics technology.

Nov 1997 – Jul 2000 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore, India; Montreal, Canada;

• Worked as an SDE for developing voice recognition technology for Nortel Networks.