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Himaja Apparascheruvu
Sr. Manager, Software Development | IIM A | IIT R
Bellevue
Summary
Leader in the Amazon Finance Technology (FinTech) organization leading talented engineering teams that builds high-performance, large scale financial systems supporting Amazon's new business growth, providing operational efficiency, compliance with law and analysis of financial data. Owns software platforms responsible for handling billions of dollars’ worth of transactions that must be processed accurately and timely. A Passionate builder of talent and teams focusing on innovation and enabling customers with scale and capabilities.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Senior Manager, Software Development
Amazon
04.2024 - Current
- Engineering head managing Invoice Life Cycle across AP (Amazon Payable) and AR (Amazon Receivable) charters within Finance Technology Organization
- Manager of managers, leading six (6) software development managers and indirectly managing a team of 70+ technical members.
- Responsible for processing ~300MM invoices worth $400B across ~90 distinct business ensuring accurate and on time payments to 1.2MM payees
Senior Manager, Software Development
Amazon India Pvt Ltd
10.2023 - 04.2024
- Responsible for establishing right organization structure for engineering team and overall technology strategy to meet long-term tax and compliance needs of organization
- Owns technology solutions that enables tax compliance for 3P payees (including sellers, vendors, publishers, associates and others) across 27 Amazon businesses operating under 22 entities.
- Evolve architecture of withholding tax services and unify TDS application process to address the needs of diverse business use cases in India.
- Establish partnerships with Senior tax leaders globally and build Tax technology solutions
Software Development Manager
Amazon India Pvt Ltd
09.2021 - 09.2023
- Led the organization-wide technology strategy development for withholding tax (TDS) in India (IN) and Mexico (MX) market place sellers
- Managed a cross-functional team of engineers, applied scientists and product managers to deliver software to meet customer, business, and/or technology needs
- Partnered with business stakeholders, compliance and operations, setting up the right processes in the team focusing on software quality and product maintainability.
Sr. Technical Program Manager
Alexa India, Amazon
01.2020 - 08.2021
- Led a green field initiative 'Learn with Alexa' (code named Vidya) - an India-First Alexa Education experience from inception to launch.
- Launched Vidya 1P skill and 3P Pearson MyPedia English learning skills driving 17.5K MaU and rated 4.1 stars on Alexa Skill store (as of Nov'20).
- Launched 'Macmillan Altura' skill focusing on curriculum learning for 6-11 years old, addressing ~260M market.
- Launched 'Pay with Alexa', an India-First Alexa domain for voice enabled utility bill payments (~INR 65M TPV in 1 year).
Senior Program Manager
Supply Chain Execution, Amazon
09.2017 - 01.2020
- Led 3 initiatives from product inception to launch - VAST, Heimdall & EPOD.
- VAST (Vendor Appointment Scheduling Tool) is an end-to-end automated self-service system that confirms a guaranteed appointment in real time. ~$ 3.5 MN annual savings and associated benefits of GMS improvement due to reduced OOS/deletions is $280MM.
- Vendor Satisfaction Survey in Q3’19 for retail vendors show an improvement of 2100bps post VAST launch
- Heimdall is Inbound truck scheduling tool that dynamically ranks all the inbound trucks at Amazon FCs. Reduced truck TAT from ~12 hrs to less than 3 hrs
- EPOD (Electronic Proof of Delivery) is a tool to systemically generate a Proof of Delivery (POD) replacing the existing manual process, thus improving reliability, accuracy and efficiency with a savings of INR 72MM (as of Q3'19)
Senior Product Manager
Jio Cloud, Reliance
06.2015 - 08.2017
- Product Managed the complete lifecyle of Identity & Access management (IAM) service of Jio cloud (JCS)
- Managing & leading team members, defining timelines and measures of success & risks, allocating deliverables to resources and guiding the team towards achieving the milestones
- Provide service status updates regularly to senior management & constantly update the documentations & narratives for new features in the roadmap
- Implemented agile framework of project management, and thus played the role of a scrum master
- Involved in hiring, training & mentoring the team along with resource and performance management
- Setting up best practices and driving the adoption across team towards continuous improvement
Head of Sales
Dunia Finance
04.2015 - 06.2015
- Led a team of 45 sales persons & relationship officers and helped them identify potential customers and new markets
- Forecasting & planning weekly/monthly sales targets and executing them in a given time frame
- Have setup customer centric approach & ensured customer satisfaction by achieving delivery timelines and service quality norms
Education
MBA -
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad 05.2013 - 03.2015
Exchange Term, MBA -
Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM)
Sydney, Australia 09.2014 - 12.2014
Integrated Dual Degree (B.Tech+M.Tech) - Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Roorkee Jun 2005 - 06.2010
Previous Experience
UBS Markets, Singapore | MBA Summer Intern, Emerging Markets Rates | Mar'14–May'14
Goldman Sachs | Analyst Developer - Quantitative Investment Strategy | Mar'12–May'13
Oracle India | Member Technical Staff (SDE) - Identity Services | Jun'10–Mar'12
Certification
Certified Interview Bar Raiser at Amazon
Interests
National level Marathon Runner - Vertical Marathon; Ultra (100km) marathon; Duathlon
Adventure Junkie - Skydive; Scuba dive; Bungee Jump; Canyoning; Abseiling
State Squash Player - Runner-up, Uttarakhand State Squash Rackets Championship tournament
Dramatics - 1st prize in National street play competition; Acted in short films & stage plays
Timeline
Senior Manager, Software Development
Amazon
04.2024 - Current
Senior Manager, Software Development
Amazon India Pvt Ltd
10.2023 - 04.2024
Certified Interview Bar Raiser at Amazon
04-2022
Software Development Manager
Amazon India Pvt Ltd
09.2021 - 09.2023
Sr. Technical Program Manager
Alexa India, Amazon
01.2020 - 08.2021
Senior Program Manager
Supply Chain Execution, Amazon
09.2017 - 01.2020
Senior Product Manager
Jio Cloud, Reliance
06.2015 - 08.2017
Head of Sales
Dunia Finance
04.2015 - 06.2015
Exchange Term, MBA -
Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM)
09.2014 - 12.2014
Financial Risk Manager (FRM)
05-2014
MBA -
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
05.2013 - 03.2015
National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) certified Market Professional
10-2012
Integrated Dual Degree (B.Tech+M.Tech) - Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Jun 2005 - 06.2010
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