Abhishek Koluguri
Seattle,WA
Summary
Senior Engineering Leader driving AI-native distributed systems and large-scale platform modernization across Amazon Retail. Currently leading a multi-organization initiative spanning 50+ engineers across 6 teams to build an AI-native/Agentic Process Automation and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform powering Amazon Private Brands, Whole Foods Market, and Amazon Grocery. The platform has delivered $2.5B+ in annual cost savings, contributed to a 23% YoY increase in product throughput, and is positioned as a strategic foundation for a future AWS-scale offering. Driving organization-wide adoption of GenAI and intelligent automation to significantly improve engineering and business efficiency.
Previously led the architecture and launch of an AWS-based Speech Recognition Platform comprising 10+ distributed services supporting chatbot solutions across 25+ locales and 18+ AWS regions, contributing to $1B+ ARR.
Strategic Leadership: Multi-org roadmap planning, executive stakeholder management (VP/Director level), organizational scaling, cross-functional technical leadership.
Technical Expertise: AI/ML systems, GenAI integration, distributed systems, cloud-native SaaS platforms, process automation, large-scale platform architecture.
Amazon Leadership: Security Bar Raiser (SBR), Interview Bar Raiser (BR), Mentor for senior engineers and technical leaders.
Overview
1
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Certification
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer
Amazon Retail
2023.06 - Current
- Leading the end-to-end vision, architecture, and execution of an AI-native, Agentic Process Automation and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform enabling automated operations across 10M+ products for Amazon Private Brands, Amazon Grocery, Whole Foods Market, Devices etc.
- Architected and scaled the organization's self-service AI Agents Marketplace, automating critical high-effort business workflows including product opportunity identification, vendor negotiations, claims substantiation, product detail page optimization, vendor support, Bill of Materials generation, and sustainability compliance.
- Built the core distributed platform to support 1,000+ autonomous AI agents and long-running enterprise workflows executing continuously for 15+ months, successfully establishing reusable intelligent automation patterns across the company.
- Direct platform architecture, technical roadmaps, and system health across 50+ engineers spanning 6 teams, ensuring long-term operational excellence, resilience, and scalability.
- Partner with VPs, Directors, Principal Product Managers and Applied Scientists to define multi-year business and technology strategies, influence global roadmap planning, and align platform investments with corporate priorities.
- Designed and delivered the platform's extensibility suite, including an intuitive no-code workflow console for external vendors, PMTs and a robust software development kit (SDK) and Unified API abstractions for enabling other engineering teams to build custom agent behaviors.
- Spearheading cross-functional technical programs to achieve a 20x improvement in developer and team output by establishing standardized engineering guardrails for GenAI and agentic design-patterns.
- Leading the migration of localized, monolithic business logic into decoupled, cloud-native services, establishing the high-throughput infrastructure required for an AWS global SaaS offering.
Software Engineer
Amazon Web Services
2019.04 - 2023.06
- Led 3 two pizza teams (20+ engineers) to deliver Automatic Speech Recognition Service and other Assistant capabilities for our world-wide customer base (25+ regions, 18+ locales).
- Also lead the development of DataHub as a service that is used by multiple customer facing services across other major AWS services like AWS Lex, Rekognition, Comprehend, Transcribe etc.
Software Engineer
Vertafore Inc
2016.07 - 2019.04
- Led a team of 10+ engineers Led the development core product offering with an ARR of $900M for world wide insurance industry used by leading insurance companies like United Health Care, Geico etc. for Workflow Automation and Content Management, OCR technology.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Houston
Houston, TX2016-01
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad, India2014-01
Skills
- Tech Lead
- Java, Python, Ruby, TypeScript
- LangChain, Strands
- Claude Code, Kiro
- MCP and A2A Protocols
- LLM/Agentic Platforms
Personal Information
Title: Leader, Builder, Software Engineer, AI Engineer
Certification
- AWS Solutions Architect
- AWS Machine Learning Speciality
- Amazon Security Certifier
- Amazon Interview Bar Raiser
Timeline
Software Engineer
Amazon Retail
2023.06 - Current
Software Engineer
Amazon Web Services
2019.04 - 2023.06
Software Engineer
Vertafore Inc
2016.07 - 2019.04
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Houston