Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Seattle, Washington, United States

Jan 2022 – Mar 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

• I manage our database, analytics and machine learning services in AWS. I am excited about enabling developers, data scientists and businesses "to put their data to work" by bring state-of-the-art technologies in databases to handle transactional data, making it easy to analyze and visualize them, and then finally derive insights powered by machine learning.
• Databases: https://aws.amazon.com/products/databases/,
• Analytics: https://aws.amazon.com/big-data/datalakes-and-analytics/
• Machine learning: https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/.
• I am hiring VPs, Directors, Product managers, Principal Engineers, and ML scientists for various roles. So, please send me an email to swami@amazon.com if you are interested.

May 2022 – May 2025 · 3 yrs

• The National AI Advisory Committee (NAIAC) advises the U.S. President and the White House on the state of science around AI and U.S. AI workforce & competitiveness.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 · 5 yrs · Seattle

• My team’s mission is “To put machine learning capabilities in the hands on every developer and data scientist.” My organization works on all aspects of machine learning: right from ML frameworks and infrastructure, Amazon SageMaker (an end to end service for building, training and deploying ML models in the cloud and at the edge), and AI services (Transcribe, Translate, Personalize, Forecast, Rekognition etc) that make it easier for app developers to incorporate ML into their apps with no ML experience required.
• Also, see other coverage on reinvent ML launches: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-web-services-announces-13-new-machine-learning-services

Apr 2012 – Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• I was the GM for NoSQL(Dynamo, ElastiCache) and Analytics (QuickSight) in Amazon. I bootstrapped the NoSQL services team for Amazon from scratch and got DynamoDB and ElastiCache to be two of the key pillar services for AWS with broad success in adoption and revenue. I was responsible for the vision, execution and operations of these services. I managed the engineering, product management and operations for core AWS database services that are the foundational building blocks for AWS: DynamoDB, AWS Transactional Services (Paxos based lock services, replication infrastructure), Elasticache (in-memory engines), SimpleDB, and a few other services that were in the works.
• I have built several large scale systems in the past. Some of the well known ones (that is externally visible) include Amazon Dynamo and DynamoDB, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon RDS, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon's core Paxos infra and Amazon SNS Mobile Push. I has also built other large scale systems that is used for building Amazon service infrastructure including its core distributed lock service infrastructure. I am also one of the main authors of Amazon Dynamo paper (along with Werner Vogels) that was published in SOSP 2007 and became the foundation of several other NoSQL stores.
• For more information on DynamoDB, see:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz-7wJJ9HZ0
• and
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjJ3Dkl6VS4
• For Elasticache, see: http://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/
• To build a 1TB cache in a matter of minutes, use Elasticache: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FQAtbgXrdY
• For QuickSight, see http://aws.amazon.com/quicksight
• Product pages for services I managed:
• http://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/
• http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/
• http://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/
• http://aws.amazon.com/quicksight

May 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Switching from a Principal Engineer (who hands on built several AWS services) to engineering leadership, I bootstrapped NoSQL database services in AWS which started the whole DynamoDB, Core Paxos fabric layer and our ElastiCache layer.

Apr 2008 – May 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Reporting to the CTO; Working on design, implementation and analysis of several distributed systems technology within my organization.
• Launched multiple cloud services like AWS CloudFront, Amazon RDS and influenced launch of several other AWS services.

Nov 2006 – Apr 2008 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Reporting to the CTO; Working on design, implementation and analysis of several distributed systems technology within my organization.

Jun 2005 – Sep 2005 · 3 mos

• Worked on design and implementation of some scalable distributed systems. The work has led to couple of patent applications and the real systems will go to production environment pretty soon.

May 2003 – Aug 2003 · 3 mos

• Worked on design and implementation of a new Grid system called Melody that combined the approaches of virtualized execution environments with P2P technologies to build a scalable distributed system platform for executing Grid jobs. Work led to a patent and couple of publications in premium distributed systems conferences.

May 2002 – Aug 2002 · 3 mos

• Worked on design and implementation of a new Grid system called Harmony and Melody that combined the approaches of virtualized execution environments with P2P technologies to build a scalable distributed system platform for executing Grid jobs.
• The project has led to two patent inventions and products are out in the pipeline.

May 2001 – Aug 2001 · 3 mos

• Worked on improving the scalability of LInux kernel for high end multiprocessor servers. Designed and implemented a multi-queue linux scheduler for SMPs. Also, invented, designed and implemented a new synchronization mechanisms called Fairlocks that performed more efficient than exisiting spinlocks for NUMA multiprocessor servers. This led to a patent granted (US Patent# 6779090).