About

Senior Engineering Manager at Amazon, leading engineering for Books and Kindle’s purchase and payments experience worldwide. Twelve years building distributed systems at the edge of how millions of customers discover, purchase, pay, reward and read books — most recently steering the org through an AI-native engineering transition and exploring agentic commerce.

I optimize for mechanisms over heroics, building over discussion, evidence over opinion, proactive over reaction, ambiguity over simplicity.

Experience

Senior Engineering Manager

Amazon
Apr 2014 - Present

Progression: SDE (2014) → SDM L5 (2017) → SDM L6 (2019) → Sr. Manager (2024 → Present)

Lead a multi-team engineering organization (~60 engineers, 4 managers) responsible for digital books purchase, payments, and content experience worldwide. Work spans high-throughput Java services, interoperability with other orgs, and the platform layer that lets product teams ship without re-inventing the wheel each time.

Recent focus areas:

  • Frictionless Buying Experience - Continuously optimize the Books purchase and payment flows to deliver a seamless, delightful, and frictionless checkout experience.
  • AI-native engineering — Turn expert AI workflows into standard developer habits and remove bottlenecks in both code quality and delivery speed.
  • International payments — new methods, compliance work, and platform consolidation across multiple marketplaces

Software Developer · Content & Platform Group

Yahoo!
Jun 2011 - Apr 2014

Content & Platform Group

Built foundational platform components used across Yahoo’s news, entertainment, search, and shopping properties. Shipped the authorization service that gated content publishing across Yahoo properties, and a multi-dimensional key–value store used as the substrate for content processing pipelines.

Education

B.E. Computer Science & Engineering

PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore 2007 - 2011

Skills

Distributed systems · Java / JVM · AWS · Payments & commerce · Platform engineering · Org design · Mechanism design · Strategy narratives · AI-assisted development · Latency & performance engineering · Peak / capacity planning · Hiring & calibration

Off the clock

Football and FIFA. Anime — Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Naruto are the desert-island picks. And, increasingly, farming — there is something clarifying about a system whose feedback loop is measured in seasons. New skills unlocked - surfing and pickle ball