Hemant Virmani

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Sammamish, Washington, United States25 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly StableAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Delivered 99.99% availability for Amazon's storage system
  • Launched multiple 0→1 initiatives accelerating revenue
  • Mentored senior leaders and improved team satisfaction
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Logistics expert with a strong focus on AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Applied Ai/ Ml/ GenaiPlatform EngineeringCloud InfrastructureExecutive Engineering LeadershipEngineering ManagementInnovation

Other Skills

Cloud DevelopmentPython (Programming Language)Customer InsightContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)EngineeringAmazon Web Services (AWS)Organizational DevelopmentStrategyGlobal LeadershipCloud-Native ApplicationsSystems DesignCross-functional CollaborationsCloud ApplicationsAgility & Thought LeadershipFull-Stack Development

About

Engineering leader known for delivering scalable, cloud-native and AI-powered platforms at Amazon and Adobe. Combines deep technical expertise with a people-first leadership style to build high-performing teams and ship impactful technology. Skilled at driving complex initiatives from concept to launch, evolving legacy systems, and aligning cross-functional teams to solve business-critical problems. Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Systems: Re-architected Amazon's storage system to achieve 99.99% availability, supporting Billions of artifacts+ artifacts, 300+ internal services, and 10x platform growth. AI and ML Integration: Setup Applied Science Teams, Created and Integrated GenAI and machine learning into infrastructure, driving automation in document processing, and product classification. Infrastructure Optimization and Cost Efficiency: Delivered cost savings and reduced operational load by 80% through cost efficiency, cloud-native optimizations, and organizational stabilization. Business Growth and 0→1 Scaling: Launched multiple 0→1 initiatives, accelerating revenue and customer adoption; led fast-paced pilots in start-up mode and A/B testing to validate concepts, optimize performance, and drive rapid innovation. Organizational Leadership and Talent Development: Promoted and mentored senior leaders across global teams; Bar Raiser for hiring, documentation, and operational excellence (COE) at Amazon. Executive Engineering Leadership: Led a large engineering organization and promoted 4 team members to L7 at Amazon to deepen leadership capacity; reorganized teams to remove innovation bottlenecks and clarify ownership, increasing employee satisfaction from below benchmark to significantly above benchmark and improving focus on strategic KPIs. Additional Skills: Experimentation & Data-Driven Decision Making, Cross-functional Strategy and Product Alignment, Talent Management and Culture Building

Experience

25 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
8 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
4 mos
Current Experience

Ai powered, large scale systems

Seeking Head of Engineering Opportunities

Jan 2026Present · 4 mos · United States

  • First Principles Research: Self-directed study of transformer-based attention and vector embedding strategies to analyze architectural trade-offs between foundation model fine-tuning and scalable, production-grade infrastructure.
  • Hugging Face (HF) Agents Specialization: Completed the Hugging Face Agents Course, mastering the implementation of ReAct (Reasoning + Acting) patterns and Code Agents.
  • GAIA Benchmark Achievement: Engineered and validated a specialized agentic workflow that surpasses the GAIA benchmark challenge by HF, successfully solving complex, multi-modality tasks by optimizing tool-calling logic and task decomposition.
  • Working on an open-source desktop-native agentic systems using LangGraph to bridge the gap between natural language intent and local system automation.

Amazon

3 roles

Senior Manager, Software Dev

Promoted

Jul 2021Jan 2026 · 4 yrs 6 mos · On-site

  • As the Head of Engineering for Customs, Compliance & Cross Border Fulfilment Org in GL Business. led a multi-layered engineering & science org, driving technical strategy enabling senior leaders to move fast with minimal overhead to improve global cross-border selling journey.
  • Developed and deployed an ML-powered product classification system for HTS Codes, reducing processing costs from $0.XXto $0.YY per entry; automated ZZ% of volume through the supervised contrastive learning and LangGraph-based agentic system with Claude 3.7, saving $XXM annually and unlocking $YYM in GMS over 3 years.
  • Overhauled global customs filing processes, optimizing AAA K+ annual entries and reducing entry time by 40%, resulting in faster and more cost-effective import operations.
  • Expanded customs filing to three additional businesses and new international regions (UK, EU, JP), achieving ~$BB savings per entry and supporting scalable logistics for a $3B global business unit.
  • Streamlined global fulfillment operations for a $35B GMS business segment, removing friction in cross-border selling and accelerating seller adoption.
  • Spearheaded the launch of Seller infrastructure for Amazon Haul, a mobile-first, budget-focused shopping experience; led seller eligibility, item onboarding, and compliance integration to enable onboarding of XX+ new sellers and YYK+ products in record time, unlocking substantial incremental volume (confidential data).
Cloud DevelopmentPython (Programming Language)Customer InsightContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Platform EngineeringApplied AI/ ML/ GenAI+25

Senior Manager, Software Dev

Oct 2019Jun 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · On-site

  • Promoted to drive platform success through global experiments and scaled the organization to support high-impact, in-person seller verification platform. Built the team from the ground up to ~40, including 4 managers, 2 TPMs, and 34 engineers. Reduced bad actor attacks and cut seller onboarding time by 90%.
  • Conceptualized and launched a scalable in-person seller verification platform, enabling 2M+ sellers to onboard to Amazon Marketplace; reduced bad actor attacks from XX% to YY% and cut onboarding time from XX days to 48 hours.
  • Elevated seller experience through user-centric design improvements, experimentation, resulting in a 4.8/5 customer satisfaction score.
  • Led the re-architecture of secure document storage platform with targeting four 9s availability (achieved five 9s availability), enabling a 10x scale, supporting 50B+ artifacts and 300+ internal services.
Cloud DevelopmentBusiness LaunchCustomer InsightContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Platform EngineeringExecutive Engineering Leadership+19

Software Development Manager

Jul 2014Sep 2019 · 5 yrs 2 mos · On-site

  • Recruited to lead development of a global real-time monitoring system supporting Amazon’s supply chain infrastructure. Following early success, selected to lead a high-impact Computer Vision and OCR initiative to automate seller registration and strengthen identity verification.
  • Developed and scaled a global real-time monitoring system tracking over 2M daily packages with 10K TPS throughput; delivered operational visibility via dashboards and alerts, supporting 25K monthly operators worldwide.
  • Built and led a 22-member team of scientists and engineers to develop a document information extraction platform supporting ~100 doc types, reducing manual processing across seller registration and improving identity verification through automation; solution was adapted into the AWS Textract API, announced publicly at AWS re:Invent 2021.
Cloud DevelopmentBusiness LaunchPython (Programming Language)Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Platform EngineeringApplied AI/ ML/ GenAI+17

Adobe

4 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Feb 2014Jul 2014 · 5 mos

  • Promoted to lead a 25-member software engineering team within the Print Technologies Business, with a focus on new product development and 3D printing innovation. Advanced rapidly through multiple roles from MTS to Senior Manager based on performance and leadership impact.
Engineering ManagementBusiness LaunchPython (Programming Language)New Product IdeasSoftware PatentsSystems Design+5

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Feb 2008Jan 2014 · 5 yrs 11 mos

  • Led product development in Adobe's Print Publishing Business Unit, driving innovation in print optimization, document processing, and PDF technologies.
  • Developed Adobe LeanPrint, a patented technology that reduced toner usage by 85% and paper usage by 40%, significantly lowering printing costs for enterprise customers.
  • Co-authored six U.S. patents in document processing and print optimization technologies (US Patents: 9658997, 9032284, 8804139, 8773712, 8451489, 8705092).
  • Led the launch of Adobe PDF Driver SDK to enable direct PDF printing via Microsoft’s XPSDrv pipeline, ensuring continuity for Adobe and supporting OEMs with multimillion-dollar investments in native PDF RIP (confidential value).
Engineering ManagementPython (Programming Language)Software PatentsSystems DesignInnovationAgility & Thought Leadership+3

Computer Scientist

Jun 2005Jan 2008 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Spearheaded Adobe’s XPSDriver SDK initiative to maintain business continuity for PostScript printers, rapidly adapting to Microsoft’s evolving XPS technology.
Problem SolvingHands-on TechnicalProgramming Languages

Member of Technical Staff

Dec 2002May 2005 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Revitalized Adobe FrameMaker, a technical documentation product, by implementing the long-awaited Multiple-Undo feature.
Problem SolvingHands-on TechnicalProgramming Languages

Zenax technologies / cynosure media solutions (startup)

Software Engineer

Jun 2000Dec 2002 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

  • Developed 0-1 products for a fast-paced startup, delivering full-lifecycle software solutions across Linux and web environments while navigating the venture's rebranding and transition. Architected and developed NAS resource virtualization solutions for US-based partners to streamline network data management and designed a multitasking server messaging framework (Linux).

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master of Science (MS) — Software Systems

Delhi College of Engineering

BE

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