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Divya Yadav

Fremont,CA

Summary

Engineering manager with 18+ years of diverse experience in mobile applications, security software, and devices like FireTV and Astro. Proven track record of successfully managing multiple projects, consistently delivering high-quality results. Demonstrated expertise in delivering v1 products and achieving top-tier performance at Amazon for the past five years. Currently focused on developing products with advanced prompt tuning for LLM decision making.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Engineering Manager

Amazon Lab126
10.2020 - Current
  • Lead a team of engineers to develop an AI architecture that learns user preferences through interactions, enhancing conversational experiences with advanced prompt engineering techniques.
  • Built engineering team from scratch (2 => 11), established charter(robot autonomy) for team to align with organization goals.
  • Provided coaching and feedback to engineers, participating in their overall growth. This helped develop self sustaining engineering team with high quality deliverables.
  • Handled multiple work streams and project roadmaps across different PM, UX, TPM leads and across organizations. Delivered successfully complex projects involving multiple engineering teams.
  • Delivered metric/data driven products that can be evaluated for customer feedback in production.
  • Established tools/processes with Marketing/UX/PM/QA teams to enable processes independently outside of engineering releases e.g. marketing content, software updates etc.

Senior Software Engineer

Amazon Lab126
10.2017 - 10.2020
  • Designed & Implemented recently seen row and Live TV tab on FireTV
  • Designed & Implemented FireOS applications on Astro from scratch that handle motion utterances e.g. Follow me, Come here etc.
  • Designed & Implemented autonomy framework on Astro that enables the device to take autonomous decisions when idle, e.g. Go Hangout with people, Go to charger when low on battery, Initiate conversations to build trust and relationship.

Software Engineer

McAfee
01.2014 - 10.2017

Secure Home Gateway (Router Security Application) https://securehomeplatform.mcafee.com

  • Worked on OpenWRT/Lantiq router. Porting in-house solution on these routers.
  • Designed and implemented features on router software that blocks access to all malicious websites, provides parental control, does vulnerability scan for iOT devices.
  • Created portal that helps McAfee/customer support to handle customer query. This was the 20% project and self driven.

McAfee Safe Call - http://www.mcafee.com/japan/home/pd/safe_call/

  • Designed and implemented android application that rejects/warns user about incoming fraud call. User can create their own set blocklist.

Lead Engineer

Samsung Research Center
02.2007 - 05.2013

Samsung Tizen Bluetooth

  • Developed Bluetooth application on Samsung Tizen mobile phones, contributed to open source BlueZ stack for Bluetooth profiles.
  • Redesigned Bluetooth audio application to handle various applications such as Skype, GTalk etc. over Handset Profile.

Bluetooth Avatar (Patent) https://www.google.com/patents/US20140019565

  • Bluetooth profile were not very readable, gave user option to create Bluetooth profile with picture and name. User can preview image/video thumbnails and get multiple files in one bluetooth transaction.

Bluetooth Friendship Mode (Patent)

  • Provided extra Bluetooth visibility mode to user for instant messaging and file transfers.

Software Engineer

IBM
07.2006 - 02.2007

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

J.S.S. Academy of Technical Education
06.2006

Skills

  • Android
  • Project Roadmaps, planning, execution
  • Human Robot Interaction
  • Data driven decision making
  • Prompt Engineering for LLMs

Certification

Codepath Android Bootcamp - April 2017

https://www.codepath.org/courses/android-development

Timeline

Engineering Manager

Amazon Lab126
10.2020 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Amazon Lab126
10.2017 - 10.2020

Software Engineer

McAfee
01.2014 - 10.2017

Lead Engineer

Samsung Research Center
02.2007 - 05.2013

Software Engineer

IBM
07.2006 - 02.2007

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

J.S.S. Academy of Technical Education
Divya Yadav