Aug 2017 – Aug 2021 · 4 yrs · Greater Seattle Area

• Head of Product & Engineering - Discovery Metadata Platform / Shopping Knowledge Graph
• I led the Discovery Metadata Platform organization that enables the discovery of billions of products in the catalog by organizing them into a Shopping Knowledge Graph / Product Taxonomy. This knowledge graph provides the definition of thousands of product types (“what is this product?”), product facets (e.g. color), and relationships critical for discovery. This enables Amazon Search system to provide relevant results and innovative product discovery experiences.
• We use advanced Machine Learning techniques to classify billions of products into the tens of thousands of possibilities and tens of billions of product assignments to enable Search and other systems. We manage “Tier-1” highly available, high throughput, low latency services that vend the knowledge graph entities that are critical in keeping Amazon’s discovery experiences running.
• I led a large / diverse organization with teams across US and EU owning Software Product Development, Product Management, Technical Program Management, and Operations.

Apr 2015 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore, India

• Head of Demand Shaping Systems - Incubated, boot strapped and scaled several key initiatives from scratch (was deeply hands-on) and evolving it into a complex large scale systems with significant technical, business and customer impact:
• Defined vision and strategy for Integrated Planning Platform (IPP) in close partnership with BU heads. Built the team from scratch and scaled it to successfully deliver two major versions of Demand Planning product on IPP and the vision of enabling Demand, supply and Seller planning at Flipkart on IPP.
• Defined vision and direction for pricing systems – delivering Pricing as a Service to recommend optimal prices based on scientific methods / capabilities. Built the product from scratch (a highly performant and low latent system that can compute and refresh prices for hundreds of millions of products in near real time based on several algorithms)
• Evolved promotions platform by delivering several new innovations (Bundles, Targeted user offers, Low Cost EMI, Affordability constructs, Product exchange) to increase customer engagement / retention, grow GMV while reducing burn. Ran Flipkart’s biggest yearly sale (BBD 2015 / 2016) with systems supporting 450K QPS
• Evangelized and built competitive Intelligence function at Flipkart from scratch for monitoring and gathering vital information about competitors at scale on various dimensions such as price, selection, etc. and help Flipkart stay competitive. Incubated the team and scaled it 30+ high performing team
• Continually challenged and raised engineering standards, led hiring for all levels (SDEs to Directors / VPs), actively contributed in re-defining Flipkart’s technical ladder competencies, facilitated org restructuring activity, evaluated several acquisition proposals, mentored and grew several members to senior levels

Mar 2011 – Mar 2015 · 4 yrs

• Headed software engineering teams under Amazon Retail Technology Unit (Pricing, Competitive Intelligence, Amazon Trade-In & Rentals)

Nov 2009 – Feb 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos

May 2001 – Apr 2010 · 8 yrs 11 mos · Redmond, WA, USA

• Led and delivered several versions of Windows operating system (software deployment services), large scale cloud services (e.g. Identity Management, Data Center Replication and Availability, etc.)

Jan 1998 – Jan 2001 · 3 yrs

Jan 1997 – Jan 1998 · 1 yr