Ashwin Kumar V M

About Ashwin Kumar V M

Engineering Manager with 15+ years of IT experience in E-commerce industry implementing and maintaining large scale customer facing websites, leading projects from inception to successful completion on time and building diverse teams of software engineers.Specialties:Agile technologies, E-Commerce, Project and People Management, Micro services and Responsive Web Design

Experience

1. Software Development Manager

   Amazon

   Mar 2022 — Present · Arlington, VA, US

   Site Lead for Amazon Gift Cards, Virginia location owning Regulatory Compliance, Fraud Prevention,Marketplace Expansion and Bulk ordering capabilities across 22+ marketplaces worldwide.Led a team of 22, including 2 engineering managers leading teams of 7-8 each, responsible for performance evaluation, career development, and growthLed cross-organizational initiatives and built an extensible and scalable compliance toolkit for Gift Cards across EU, JP and SG markets resolving business continuity risks.Delivered 3-yr strategic product vision by launching Gift Cards Manager on Amazon Business, an enterprise-grade bulk procurement capabilities supporting up to 20k recipients resulting in 13x increase in average order valueLaunched Gift Cards in 4 new countries generating incremental business and driving new customers to Amazon. Proposed Tech Strategy for light weight expansion model and reduced expansion efforts by 40%Proposed comprehensive technical strategy to prevent Fraud and Abuse, built controls and rapid response tools driving 93% fraud loss reductionDrove operational excellence reducing high severity incidents and improving SLAs by 50%.Led AI-driven initiatives and experiments to improve research and design outcomes, optimizetroubleshooting and reduce incident resolution times driving 30% productivity.Collaborated across teams covering Product, Design, Engineering, and other departments to align organizational goals with product objectivesInterviewed over 100 candidates, hired 15+, promoted 8+ and coached under performers.

Education

• National Institute of Technology Warangal

  B.Tech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  2001 — 2005

Skills

• Web Development
• C++
• Backbone.js
• E-Commerce
• Git
• Mybatis
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Soap
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Agile Methodologies
• Spring
• Jboss Application Server
• Sql
• Linux
• Javascript
• Cvs
• Tfs
• Jsp
• Splunk
• Selenium
• Unix
• Mysql
• Tomcat
• Sdlc
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Requirements Analysis
• Jquery
• Web Applications
• Core Java
• Servlets
• Apache
• .net Framework
• Object Oriented Perl
• Java
• Xml
• Responsive Web Design
• Ajax
• Web Services
• Perl