Abhi Salokhe
Union City,CA
Summary
Multifaceted technical career with 12+ years track record of innovation and success. Accomplished, enthusiastic, and driven Software Engineer grown into an Engineering Manager with a solid history of effective systems engineering in Client/Server/ Web / Enterprise software and SaaS / SOA development. Well recognized for strong leadership and project management abilities while leading cross-functional teams in fast-paced, competitive work environments.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineering Manager
Amazon
01.2021 - Current
- Leading team of backend engineers that work on deep learning, AI and computer vision for search solutions at Amazon scale
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- Contribute ideas and suggestions in org wide engineering and business meetings and deliver updates on deadlines, designs, and enhancements.
- Collaborate with internal and external project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
- Support 3P collaborations with Amazon visual search where partner companies improve their experiences using visual search technology
Senior Software Engineer
Amazon
07.2017 - 01.2021
- Lead a team of 3 SDEs that worked on core runtime services that powered visual search within Amazon mobile app.
- Worked on offline indexing solution for Shop The Look product within Amazon mobile app that allows customers upload inspirational photos to find matching products on Amazon
- Lead the backend system architecture for AR Asset acquisition/generation and publication to power the AR mode within Amazon mobile app
Senior Software Engineer
Walmart Labs
07.2014 - 07.2017
- Lead Item setup orchestrator team
- Evolving the ingestion pipeline comprising of micro backend services for partners to setup products, offers, pricing, inventory on Walmart global platform
- Iterating on new ways for partners to integrate with Walmart ecosystem (AuthN AuthZ techniques, Mobile platform)
Software Development Engineer
Amazon
07.2013 - 07.2014
- Contributed towards design and development of REST/SOAP based services for IAM team AWS
- Developed features for AWS single sign on service used by all AWS portals
- Worked on OAuth 2.0 based protocol for AWS sign in service
Software Engineer
Infosys Technologies
01.2010 - 07.2011
- Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
- Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces.
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
- Delivered unit-tested systems within customer-prescribed timeframes.
Education
Master of Science - Software Engineering
San Jose State University
San Jose, CA05.2013
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
University of Pune
Pune India05.2009
Skills
- Software Architecture
- Team Collaboration
- Distributed Systems
- Machine Learning
- Problem-Solving Abilities
- Stakeholder Management
- Technologies: Java, SQS, SNS, Lambda, MySQL, DynamoDB, Amazon Web Services
Accomplishments
- Deep learning, AI and computer vision for search solutions at Amazon scale
- Led engineering team to deliver iterations of next-gen shopping applications for Amazon
- Shop The Look for discovering fashion and home decor using a photo
- Augmented Reality for visualizing furniture and other decor in your home before you buy
- Camera Search for finding 100s of millions of products using camera
- Non product search in Amazon - Videos
Skills
Programming Languages : C, Java, C#, Unix Shell scripting (bash), JavaScript, Perl
Databases : Dynamo DB, Oracle, MySQL, Mongo DB, PostgreSQL
Web Technologies : Web Services-SOAP & REST, AWS Services (S3, EC2, Lambda, ECS, Athena, Data pipelines, SQS, SNS, Kinesis)
Timeline
Software Engineering Manager
Amazon
01.2021 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Amazon
07.2017 - 01.2021
Senior Software Engineer
Walmart Labs
07.2014 - 07.2017
Software Development Engineer
Amazon
07.2013 - 07.2014
Software Engineer
Infosys Technologies
01.2010 - 07.2011
Master of Science - Software Engineering
San Jose State University
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
University of Pune