Vinay Garg

Engineering Manager

Boston, Massachusetts, United States14 yrs 11 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led a team to build a scalable streaming platform.
Achieved 66% reduction in operational costs.
Designed a system saving $300MM annually.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with extensive experience in AWS and scalable application development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Project ManagementAmazon Web Services (aws)Data StreamingFull-stack Development

Other Skills

AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)AWS LambdaAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon CloudWatchAmazon DynamodbAmazon EC2Amazon KinesisAmazon S3Amazon SQSAmazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)Artificial IntelligenceCC++CSS

About

Software Engineering Manager with 10+ YoE of developing (including 4 years of managing) enterprise software for Internet scale at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Cloud (AWS) and Security and Privacy domains at Amazon. Proven leadership characteristics to lead and mentor high performing software engineering teams. Solid hands-on experience in Software Engineering with an outstanding success in developing highly distributed and scalable applications using multiple frameworks, languages. High degree of confidence and ability to influence others through strong communication skills. Ability to quickly recognize strengths and growth opportunities for each individual on the team, enabling their exponential growth.

Experience

14 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Klaviyo

Engineering Manager

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Hybrid

Amazon

5 roles

Software Development Manager, Alexa AI

Promoted

May 2020 – Apr 2024 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Managing a team of SDEs, I'm responsible for building tactical and strategic vision; project management including defining priorities, building monthly/quarterly delivery plan/roadmaps, resource planning and allocation; hiring best talent (done 300+ interviews) and performance management including weekly 1:1s, providing mentorship, and managing both high and low performers.
Leveraging my strong delivery and results oriented focus, I successfully seeded and built a scalable streaming platform ground up for consuming Exabyte scale Alexa ML Data, serving near real time (NRT) streaming usecases (like NRT-signal computation and continual learning), handling 10B+ transactions/day and serving 200+ applications.
I also owned some of the critical web-services that powered Alexa's customer facing portals serving 1B+ transactions/day with a low (<50ms) latency and high (99.99%) availability. Prioritizing reduction of day to day operations cost and maintainability, I was able to reduce the operational cost of this service by 66%.
Conducted 300+ interviews, across multiple hiring blitzes and recruitment drives.

Project ManagementHiringAmazon SQSAmazon Web Services (AWS)People ManagementCross-team Collaboration+16

Software Development Engineer II, Alexa AI

Jun 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

Developed and maintained multiple web services for a platform built on top of Alexa Datalake (one of the largest datalake that exists in today's world), that enabled 10000+ human labelers to efficiently label data in NRT which is then used for supervised training of Alexa's ML Models.

HiringAmazon SQSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Cross-team CollaborationData StreamingTeam Collaboration+12

Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Web Services

Oct 2017 – May 2018 · 7 mos

As a part of AWS Single Sign-On team, built an event based, distributed, server-less system responsible for consuming delete events from AWS customers and deleting their data with high robustness and reliability.

HiringAmazon SQSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Team CollaborationAmazon S3Amazon CloudWatch+8

Software Development Engineer II, Amazon India

Promoted

Apr 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

As part of the CustomerServiceTech team, built, owned and maintained multiple distributed systems and micro-services which helped CS representatives to provide resolutions to customer issues. I also designed and bult a system which reduced concessions' abuse, thus resulting in an annual savings of $300MM

HiringAmazon SQSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Team CollaborationAmazon S3Full-Stack Development+9

Software Development Engineer, Amazon India

Mar 2013 – Mar 2016 · 3 yrs

HiringAmazon Web Services (AWS)Amazon CloudWatchContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)Amazon EC2