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Priyank Patel

Priyank Patel

Hyderabad

Summary

Experienced Software Development Manager with a strong track record of leading high-performing teams of 10+ members to deliver scalable platforms that generate high-quality ground truth data for improving ML models efficiency. A Computer Science graduate with nearly 8 years of hands-on experience in software industry, including ~3 years as software Engineering Manager. My strength is to drive complex and ambiguous initiatives by aligning stakeholders, setting clear goals for engineers, and delivering significant business impact. Key achievements include successfully launching labeling platform with a team of 10 SDEs, collaborated with leaders of three organizations to onboard their data associates, resulting in 500k labels per week. During my tenure as SDM, I built team from 2 members to 10 engineers and expanded my charter to own three customer facing, business critical tools for AGI org.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Development Manager

Amazon
Hyderabad
06.2022 - Current
  • Managed team of 10+ engineers in building new scalable labeling platforms used by 3 organizations in Amazon. 5000+ Data Associates(Amazon employees) uses the platform to generate 500k labels per week to improve ML model’s efficiency. Developed roadmap for 2024-25 to externalize the platform for 3rd party Vendors in generating data to improve ML models' performance.
  • Owned customer-facing, business-critical applications and developed team mechanism to enhance the app's operation and development processes. The application's availability metrics increased from 99.0 to 99.8.
  • Collaborated with leaders of 2 organizations, science and product team to structure goal of cost reduction. Defined P0 metrics and goals for each engineers in the team. The initiative reduced $2MM by integrating decision-making with ML models and reduced manual task.
  • Promoted 3 Engineers to SDE-2. Hired 2 System Development Engineers and considering their interest, developed growth path to transition to SDE job family. They were successfully promoted to SDE based on goal success and stakeholders feedbacks.

Software Development Engineer

Amazon
06.2021 - 06.2022
  • Lead SDE in the team and drove charter of improving privacy footprint of Alexa labeling application. Created roadmap plan to integrate application with privacy tools to apply 10+ Privacy controls. The app is internal customer facing UI tool build on top of reactJS and processes confidential Alexa customer data.
  • Created architecture plan to migrate labeling service to AWS micro-service based architecture from legacy platforms. Developed project and execution plan for 3 SDEs. Based on successful delivery of the project and aligned to my career interest, I moved to SDM track in Jan’22 and started managing team of 4 SDEs.

Manager

Morgan Stanley
Bengaluru
06.2020 - 06.2021

Enhanced Portfolio Accounting platform to generate real time analytics reports of Asset Custody, Collateral Management for prime brokerage customers. The stack handles 20k+ trades per day accounting for more than $2MM+. The enhancements helped to improve customer satisfaction score by 20% and improved trading volume by 500 bps.

Software Engineer - 2

Goldman Sachs
Bengaluru
01.2019 - 05.2020

Worked as SDE-2 capacity in developing OLTP cloud based platform to legally verify derivatives contracts. The platform has improved efficiency, stability and supported growing business of Alto trading, enabling firm to earn revenue of $40MM from high volume equity trading. Took additional responsibility of leading three support engineering team in onboarding equity customers to the tools.

Software Engineer

Goldman Sachs
Bengaluru
06.2017 - 12.2018

As a core software Engineer in Derivative org, contributed in automating legal document generation process. This removed human touch in the process and saved 2 operation headcount for the firm and avoided risk of legal penalty due to manual error.

Software Engineer Intern

Goldman Sachs
Bengaluru
01.2017 - 05.2017

Software Intern

Goldman Sachs
Bengaluru
05.2016 - 07.2016

Education

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology(Computer Science)

Nirma University
Ahmedabad, GJ
05.2017

Skills

  • Team Leadership
  • Team building
  • Written Communication
  • Problem-solving abilities
  • Software Development
  • Problem-Solving
  • Agile development methodologies
  • Software Architecture
  • Technical Design Documentation
  • Full-stack development

Timeline

Software Development Manager

Amazon
06.2022 - Current

Software Development Engineer

Amazon
06.2021 - 06.2022

Manager

Morgan Stanley
06.2020 - 06.2021

Software Engineer - 2

Goldman Sachs
01.2019 - 05.2020

Software Engineer

Goldman Sachs
06.2017 - 12.2018

Software Engineer Intern

Goldman Sachs
01.2017 - 05.2017

Software Intern

Goldman Sachs
05.2016 - 07.2016

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology(Computer Science)

Nirma University
Priyank Patel