Sourav Bhar

Director of Engineering

Seattle, Washington, United States17 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

20 years of experience in compute and storage services.
Led teams of 50+ members across multiple organizations.
Expert in cloud service architecture and operational excellence.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Streaming Services expert with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DesignDistributed SystemsLive Video StreamingProject ManagementSite Management

Other Skills

People ManagementSoftware Project ManagementLeadershipMentoringOperational ExcellenceCapital ExpendituresSite SupervisionJavaSoftware InfrastructureInternet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP)Cloud ComputeWeb ServicesAgile MethodologiesEnterprise ArchitectureSoftware Engineering

About

As an organizational leader, I have 20 years of experience in developing compute and storage services. Over the past decade, I have successfully led software development teams of 50 or more members, including engineering managers, program managers and technical leads. My influence extends to system design and architectural decisions, and I collaborate closely with Product Management leaders to shape cloud service roadmaps. With a strong commitment to quality and a sense of urgency, I foster engineering teams that thrive on efficiency. As a mentor, I provide timely constructive feedback and actively support career growth.

Experience

17 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

4 mos

Current Experience

Oracle

Director of Engineering

Jan 2026 – Present · 4 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid

Leading the ground-up development of a next-generation autonomous compute platform. My organization builds intelligent, data-driven systems designed to automate complex datacenter operations, significantly reducing manual intervention. I oversee the full stack—from defining bare-metal compute and storage architectures to delivering a fully managed, scalable virtual platform that ensures the high reliability of global cloud services.

Amazon web services (aws)

2 roles

Head of Engineering - AWS Lambda Control Plane

Promoted

Jun 2020 – Jan 2026 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Seattle, WA · On-site

As the Head of Engineering for Control Plane services in AWS Lambda. I lead an organization of over 40 members, including 3 Engineering Managers and 6 Technical Lead Engineers. My responsibilities extend to operational support for 25 distributed and highly scaled services, hosting more than 55 public APIs that manage Lambda Functions, Accounts, Function Concurrency, and Function Code. Launched Container Images support, 10GB memory functions, SnapStart, Provisioned Concurrency, Ephemeral storage config, Principal Org suport for enterprise customers and new budgeting guardrails for cost efficiency. Relentlessly raising the bar on organization Ops posture and architectural improvements.

Software DesignDistributed SystemsPeople ManagementSoftware Project ManagementLeadershipMentoring+1

Engineering Manager - AWS S3

Mar 2018 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Seattle Area · On-site

I led the engineering teams responsible for AWS S3 Lifecycle Policy, Transitions, Data Transport, and Glacier Integration. My organization consisted of 20+ engineers and 2 SDMs. I owned cost goals for AWS, ensuring cost-effective placement of data blobs using efficient erasure encoding schemes. Our optimized shard scheme achieved an impressive 11 9s of data durability and availability. During my tenure, I streamlined processes, reducing the evaluation time for new shard schemes by 40%. Additionally, I managed service-wide escalations for AWS S3, coordinating across approximately 30 teams with swift escalation mechanisms and making high-judgment calls.

Software DesignDistributed Systems

Prime video & amazon mgm studios

Engineering Manager - Live Playback

Apr 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

Lead the core playback for live streaming of sports and linear channels on Amazon Prime Video. I managed EPL, NFL, Wimbledon, and Bundesliga events, which garnered scale of multi-Million concurrent viewers for each. Additionally, I was responsible for ensuring an optimal customer experience through features like intelligent ads, low latency, live event recording, highlight recaps, and start-over options.

Live Video StreamingProject Management

Dell

4 roles

Site Lead

Mar 2017 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr

Site lead for Dell EMC Louisville CO, a R&D site of about 100+ people. Bringing the interactive and cohesive culture within the teams and members in the site for more effective product development with a positive trend in product delivery and quality.

Site ManagementCapital ExpendituresSite Supervision

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Apr 2013 – Mar 2018 · 4 yrs 11 mos

With a positive trend in product delivery and quality, I guide a 60-member organization of engineers, including 6 Architects/Sr Principal Engineers and 3 Senior Managers. Together, we think outside the box and cater to customer needs. Additionally, I owned the charter for building backed distributed services, providing a single pane of glass experience for data management across all EMC storage, including block and object.

Principal Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2011 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos

Part of the initial engineering team in EMC Avamar and VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) who started the effort on Virtual Machine (VM) protection using VMWare CBT (Change Block Tracking) snapshot technology. This involved VM, vApp, Resource Pool protection in its consistent stare with conjunction to a complete end-to-end restore feature covering VMs as well as Files within VMs.