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Sanket Nayak

Bellevue,WA

Summary

* Accomplished technology leader with over 15 years of experience spearheading complex engineering initiatives, building high-performing teams, and delivering innovative products.

* Led development and launch of state of the art web-scale systems powering AI capabilities.

* Passionate about developing talent and fostering operational excellence across organizations. Equipped with strong technical expertise, product vision, and proven leadership capabilities.

Accomplishments

· Part of leadership team responsible for generative AI program in Amazon. Currently leading an organization of 100+ engineers, scientist and analyst across USA, Europe and India.

· Developed and launched state of the art web crawling, processing and storing engine for Amazon capable of handling entire internet thereby powering Amazon's large language model. Systems led by me are the backbone for all LLM initiatives across Amazon.

· Handled yearly operating budget of $275 million for web processing. In span of of 2 years, reduced operating costs for web crawler and storage systems by 71% and 78% respectively through optimization and automation saving $150 million yearly.

· Transformed legacy web crawler for Amazon managing only 5K TPS into state-of-the-art system operating at 400K TPS bridging gap to competition by 48% and thereby being top 2 crawler in the world.

· Lead creation of first self-service web scale storage engine for Amazon capable of holding exabytes of data. Onboarded 17 teams as customers across Alexa, AWS, and Amazon Retail to the storage engine.

· Led delivery of Alexa Hosted Skills program, reducing Alexa skill publishing funnel dropout from 85% to 36%. Acquired 100K+ MAUs and 10K+ live skills, paving path to become an AWS service.

· Initiated and delivered EventBridge hybrid cloud solution using API integration. Widely adopted by 10K+ weekly active AWS customers sending 11B+ events per week.

· Promoted 70+ engineers to next level and oversaw talent growth of 15+ direct manager reports. Maintained remarkably low attrition rates (< 10%) through mentorship and career development focus.

Work History

Senior Software Development Manager

Amazon
08.2021 - Current
  • Leading engineering and science organization of 100+ members in Alexa Al responsible for crawling, processing and storing the internet as consumable data for Alexa Al engine.
  • Leading 7 engineering teams each responsible For crawling the entire internet at scale, processing/cleaning crawled web data and storing exabytes of web data in structured form.
  • Leading 3 applied science team responsible for understanding the web data and producing enrichments that tunes the Al engine to use the web data in best possible manner.
  • In 2023, my team was successful in crawling entire internet, processing and storing 1 exabyte of data that helped answer 99% of questions asked to Alexa as compared to 10PB and 62% respectively in 2022.

Prinicipal Group Engineering Manager

Microsoft
12.2020 - 08.2021
  • Led the partner video experience organization in Office Media Group responsible for integrating video experiences across entire M365 suite.
  • My teams were responsible for improving user engagement across seven Microsoft products by 13%.

Senior Software Development Manager

Amazon Web Services
12.2019 - 12.2020
  • Leader of AWS EventBridge product, recognized the potential of hybrid cloud solutions and proposed a a business idea outlining the benefits of combining on-premises infrastructure and public cloud services. With AWS leadership team approval, I led the team in developing the EventBridge hybrid cloud events team, which has become widely used with 11 billion weekly events and over 10,000 active customers accounting for 78% of EventBridge revenue.
  • Responsible for 180% revenue growth for AWS EventBridge product and 60% revenue growth through down. stream impact.

Senior Software Development Manager

Amazon
07.2015 - 12.2019


  • Lead the Alexa skill development tools business For Amazon. Built a
    multifunctional team to develop a cloud platform called Alexa-Hosted skills that empowers Skill Builders to create rich conversational experiences (Skills) For Alexa.
  • My organization comprised of four product development teams within
    Amazon's Alexa Organization: the Alexa Developer Portal supporting all Alexa customer-facing websites; the ASK Developer Console enabling Alexa Skill development; Alexa Hosted Skills; and Alexa Marketing Technologies.
  • Under my leadership, Alexa skills kit product reduced the skill funnel dropout rate from 85% to 36% and achieving over 100,000 monthly active users and 10,000+ published skills in the store.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science and Engineering

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, MD
05.2013

Skills

AWS Cloud / Microsoft Azure Cloud / Serverless Architecture /  Distributed Computing / Machine Learning / Natural Language Processing  / Large Language Model (LLM)

Sanket Nayak