Building the AI Infrastructure for Sidekick and agents

Lead engineering teams building ML infrastructure and data governance solutions that support AI model development at Amazon.

Key Leadership Accomplishments:

• Led the vision and launch of Content Registry for large datasets and models, reducing latency from 10 seconds to sub-second performance and significantly improving scientist experience

• Established strategic ownership of Content Access, Tracking (using graphDB lineage), and Handling controls, improving compliance across AGI systems

• Directed implementation of 23 responsible AI governance controls including geographical access restrictions and anonymization capabilities

• Orchestrated automation of metadata enrichment for petabytes of data, cutting processing time from 5 days to 8 hours

• Led cross-functional initiative to reduce dataset access time for model training from 8 weeks to 1 week in 2024

Team Leadership:

• Built and mentored a team of 10+ engineers delivering solutions impacting 1,000+ internal users

• Cultivated team culture leading to 75% job satisfaction through team initiatives and improved engagement

• Developed talent pipeline, successfully promoting 13 SDE interns to full-time hires

• Optimized infrastructure, saving $200,000+ annually through strategic infrastructure optimization

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Progressed from SDE1 to SDE2 (promoted 2018) through technical leadership in compliance systems.

• Developed compliance and sanctions detection systems for identifying denied party names

• Created secure document upload solution for PII handling without authentication requirements

• Led technical design for multiple compliance tools used across Amazon's global operations

• Implemented data security protocols for sensitive information processing

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Technologies I have worked on :

JAVA, Oracle, ExtJS, Selenium, Grinder, iText PDF, Jenkins, Groovy etc.

• I worked on enhancements on the product as well as designing and developing new features required specifically for certain clients. ONE Network Enterprises is a cloud based Supply Chain Management firm, building solutions for the different ERP needs.

• Enhancements and Bug Fixes involved Java, Oracle and ExtJS on the major hand.

• Other tasks included generation and parametrization of Grinder Scripts for testing and fixing the scalability and the reliability of the software as well as the performance on the PSR level.

• Also worked on developing Selenium scripts to test the UI flow and continuously run them on Jenkins.

• Developed JAVA scripts to design and print PDF OTA with the button click on the UI.

• Developed Client based Master data for demonstrating the product and different features of it.

• Designed and developed KPI's and Heatmaps on the available data.