Abhishek Ray

About Abhishek Ray

Engineering Leader with 19+ years of experience building mission-critical fintech and data products. Currently leading Amazon’s EMEA and ROW Tax Technology teams, overseeing the compliance data for 90+ countries. I specialise in transforming complex global regulations (Mexico Cash-Based Tax, EMEA tax compliance, Digital Service Tax) into scalable automated systems. I lead multi-disciplinary teams to build technical foundations including one of Amazon’s largest financial data ecosystems, ensuring worldwide tax compliance at massive scale. Strategic Leadership & Execution: I have a proven track record of steering high-visibility engineering programs in Agile environments. My expertise lies in:• Partnering for Impact: I act as a strategic partner to Product, Program Management, and International Tax Leadership to transform emerging regulatory obligations into innovative software products.• Architectural Strategy: I drive the technical roadmap for next-generation tax, audit, and accounting systems, ensuring they are designed for reliability, scaling, and high-traffic performance.• Managing Complexity: I lead multiple concurrent programs and development teams, delivering systems that seamlessly handle the nuances of multiple jurisdictions, including e-invoicing and tightening filing cycles.Technical Excellence at Scale: I bridge the gap between complex business requirement and software engineering, creating reliable systems.• Scalable Solutions: I lead engineering teams to build robust architectures that manage massive amounts of global content data, ensuring data integrity across one of Amazon’s largest financial databases.• Operational Excellence: I drive initiatives that scale across the global fintech ecosystem, focusing on design patterns that solve for both existing legacy systems and new, high-visibility platforms.• Mentorship: I am passionate about raising the bar for engineering excellence by mentoring engineers, program managers, and development managers.

Experience

1. Engineering Leader Global Fintech Tax Technology

   Amazon

   Jan 2024 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Scope: Lead fintech teams responsible for EMEA and Digital Service Tax compliance across 90+ countries.Data Scale: Manage one of Amazon’s largest financial databases, sourcing data from payments, accounting, and invoicing systems.Innovation: Spearheading the \"Digital Tax\" product suite, automated forecasting and nextgen of Data tools for worldwide business units.Leadership: Manage senior engineers; oversee architectural strategy for next-gen tax engines, ensuring reliability and scaling for high-traffic financial events.

Education

• DAV Public School,Chandrasekharpur

  Science

  1990 — 2002

• KIIT Deemed University

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology

  2002 — 2006

Skills

• Requirements Gathering
• J2ee Application Development
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Etl
• Pl/Sql
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Hyperion Drm
• Business Intelligence
• Sql
• Shell Scripting
• Performance Tuning
• Informatica
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Data Modeling
• Java
• Data Modelling
• Odiee
• Elt
• Databases
• Data Warehousing