Atul Singh
Sammamish,WA
Summary
Seasoned technical leader with 15+ years of experience driving high-performing data and software teams. Expertise lies in strategic development and implementation of enterprise-scale data strategies for cloud-based platforms, ensuring seamless alignment with business objectives. Proficient in establishing robust data governance and security policies, enhancing operational efficiency, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. Proven track record of talent acquisition and development across multiple regions. Seeking challenging opportunities to leverage leadership and technical acumen, driving innovation and organizational success in dynamic environments.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Head of Software Engineering
Amazon
Seattle, WA
08.2022 - Current
- Led a team of 53 engineers and 6 managers and delivered saving of over $418MM for Amazon in year 2023 against the goal of $280MM.
- Created multi year product/tech vision and strategy for data and analytical products to support Amazon's customer fulfillment business across North America(NA) and Europe(EU) to generate over $2B in cost savings by 2026, starting with $580MM in 2024.
- Established and Led Privacy program across NA and EU Customer fulfillment (CF) network to support 600+ applications there by ensuring consistency in data governance and security polices.
- Managed $18MM in infrastructure cost and $24MM in vendor cost. In 2023, drove 14% reduction in infrastructure cost while supporting 25% additional traffic.
- Revamp tech promotion process and led DEI efforts to establish mentorship program across North America consumer fulfillment.
- Established and led engineering excellence across the global customer fulfillment division of Amazon. This program supported 385 software applications. This program improved security compliance by 27% and availability of services by 18%.
- Led globalization of three products while maintaining 99.999% availability.
- Facilitated Internal Audit (SOX and Security) for 160+ application.
- Own designing and maintenance of a database cluster hosting over 20 peta byte of data to power Analytics and Science functions across NACF.
Sr Manager Software Engineering - PXT
Amazon
Seattle, WA
01.2021 - 08.2022
- Led 60 members team including 4 managers located across USA ( Seattle, Dallas), and Canada.
- Led globalization of a product to 12 countries to support over one million employees.
- Managed 15MM in OPEX including vendor selection process.
- Fueled innovation to reduce time to launch product for a new line of business from 2 months to 1 week.
- Lead the design, implementation, and operation of a cloud-based data platform, covering architecture, governance, data modeling, integration, and data management. This platform serves over 10 MM transactions per day.
- Led software teams in optimizing test plans and improving test designs to reduce testing time by 80% and personal required for testing by 20%.
- Recruited engineering personnel, technical staffing and decided on project team formation. Organized hiring events across USA and Canada, and participated in over 100 interviews.
- Established, monitored and improved operational excellence for software and data platform. This include improving latencies (P90, P50), reducing data redundancies, Improving ticket SLAs ( First touch, Mean time to resolve), eliminating non actionable tickets.
Manager, Software/Data Engineering
Amazon
01.2019 - 01.2021
- Led all the data integration and analytical projects across People Technology group to supports Amazon's COVID response projects.
- Managed a team of 32 engineers, spread across Software Engineering, Data Engineering and Quality Assurance Engineering.
- Led the team through requirement analysis and implementation of over 100 small projects in 3 years. Highest number of projects implemented by a single team within an Org of 1800 developers.
- Led development effort for Attendance module to support over 1MM employees. This module manages employee's schedule infractions.
- led development for automated punch capture solution to reduce lead time to start work for employees. This led to over $200MM is labor cost savings.
- Established a global team located across USA, Canada, and India to build and support eight business critical products
- Hands-on Experience building software using cloud computing technologies.
Senior Data Engineer
Amazon
Seattle, WA
05.2014 - 01.2019
- Designed and Built Amazon's Global Payroll ETL job responsible for managing over 1MM payslips on a weekly basis.
- Improved backend API latencies by 40% through implementing modern caching techniques (Elastic Cache, Redis) and improving persistence layer.
- Built a data stream to facilitate asynchronous integration between timekeeping application and its 29 clients like ADP, Payroll etc.
- Designed and built workday integration to manage leave information.
- Established coding standards and code review process across PXT data engineering team.
- Managed performance monitoring and tuning while identifying and repairing issues within database realm.
- Implemented new database technologies such as NoSQL databases for efficient storage of large volumes of data.
- Performed advanced analytics on structured and unstructured data using SQL, and Python.
- Developed data pipelines to ingest and process large datasets.
- Created ETL scripts to move and transform data from various sources into a centralized repository.
Project Lead
Ahold USA
Greenville, SC
03.2012 - 05.2014
- Coordinated four engineering resources to ensure successful completion of projects.
- Communicated with stakeholders throughout the life cycle of projects.
- Managed multiple concurrent projects from initiation through closure phases.
Project Engineer
American Bureau of Shipping
Houton, TX
08.2009 - 03.2011
- Developed Java based application to automate fleet execution.
- Improved customer experience rating from 3.4/5 to 4.6/5 by reducing MTTR by 80%.
Software Engineer
Freelance Web Programmer Php Mysql Coding
06.2008 - 08.2009
- Developed a software to consolidate health signals for a electric grid to improve observability.
Skills
- Product Vision and Strategy
- Project Planning & Leadership
- Operational Excellence & Reporting
- Agile methodology
- Data and Software Architecture, Design and implementation
- Stakeholder Management and Collaboration
- Hiring and Team Building
- Process Improvement
- Java/Python/Nodejs/Java Script
- Software Development Life Cycle
- Cloud Computing -AWS
- Databases - S3/Dynamo/Oracle/SQL Server/Dynamo/Redshift/RDS
- REACT/CloudFront/Chaperone/Harmony
- REST API/API GateWay/GraphQL
- HCM/CRM/TAA
- Infrastructure, Vendor, OPEX budget management
- Data Migration and integration
- Analytical and Critical Thinking
Timeline
Head of Software Engineering
Amazon
08.2022 - Current
Sr Manager Software Engineering - PXT
Amazon
01.2021 - 08.2022
Manager, Software/Data Engineering
Amazon
01.2019 - 01.2021
Senior Data Engineer
Amazon
05.2014 - 01.2019
Project Lead
Ahold USA
03.2012 - 05.2014
Project Engineer
American Bureau of Shipping
08.2009 - 03.2011
Software Engineer
Freelance Web Programmer Php Mysql Coding
06.2008 - 08.2009
Bachelor of Technology -
Rajiv Gandhi Technical University
Education
Bachelor of Technology -
Rajiv Gandhi Technical University
India06-2008