Amol Kothari
Senior Engineering Leader - Amazon Payments
- Role
- Head of Engineering Payments Secure Storage & Transmission at Amazon
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Amol Kothari
Engineering leader with 19+ years of experience building and leading globally distributed organizations delivering high-impact business transformations at large-scale companies. Key achievements: • Delivered multiple complex & critical business objectives that require mobilizing multiple-teams, stakeholders and sustained execution excellence. • Deeply technical leader, hands-on in driving architectural evolution and resolving complex engineering issues.• Fostered a lean engineering culture focused on maximizing productivity and optimizing costs. • Grew top talent and cultivated a distinct, high-performing culture that consistently exceeds org-health benchmarks (like job satisfaction, top-talent retention).• Orchestrated rapid organizational cultural shifts to align with evolving business needs (most recently, adoption of GenAI in SDLC).
Experience
Head of Engineering Payments Secure Storage & Transmission
May 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Lead a multi-disciplinary engineering org. of 120-members across Seattle, Dublin, Vancouver and New York responsible for Amazon’s Payments Secure Storage & Transmission services. The org. builds & manages a secure & resilient eco-system of micro-services which store billions of sensitive payment instruments (e.g. credit cards, bank accounts, SSNs) and process payments with 70+ external partners on behalf of all Amazon businesses (e.g. Retail, AWS). • Led strategic Gen-AI programs like enabling payments for Amazon’s AI agents purchasing on third-party sites (“Buy-for-me”); & build-out of a security and legal compliance platform for AI/ML models.
Education
University of Mumbai
B.E, Computer Science
2000 — 2004
University at Buffalo
Masters, Computer Science
2004 — 2006
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