Feryal Badili

Software Development Manager (Sdm Iii) - Data Privacy Tech @Amazon

Toronto, ON, CA

Build and scale a high-performing team from the ground up; establish mechanisms for Agile planning, documentation standards, and best practices, while aligning short-term deliverables with long-term strategic goals and stakeholder expectations.• Collaborate with global stakeholders across Product, UX, Accessibility, Privacy, and Security teams to drive execution through coordination• Lead multiple distributed systems supporting teams and 1.5M+ Amazon employees, ensuring compliance with GDPR and EU Works Council regulations. • Provide hands-on technical leadership—from architecture and roadmap planning to delivery—across two mission-critical domains.• Own sprint planning, backlog prioritization, reporting to Executives, and long-term strategy alignment across multiple workstreams. • Lead all aspects of people management, including hiring and interviews, career growth planning, performance reviews, managing underperformance, and compensation decisions. Provide regular 1:1 coaching and mentorship.Key Achievements:• Sunset a third-party Privacy Review system, replacing it with an in-house solution - reducing end-user effort by 60% through automation and workflow simplification. • Introduced automated risk assessments and launch approval workflows, achieving a 90% cost reduction per DPIA (Data Protection Impact Assessment).• Led the initiative to modernize 38+ deployment pipelines—deprecated redundant pipelines, significantly reducing maintenance overhead and operational costs while improving deployment reliability.• Led modernization of the legacy Policy Management system, reducing API calls from 1.3M to 100K/day, execution time from 4.5 to 2 hours, and cutting AWS costs by 79%.• Achieved a 60% YoY reduction in low-severity support tickets and eliminated weekly high-severity alarms.• Championed team-wide adoption of AI-powered tools—achieving 100% adoption within 3 months, exceeding the org average of 55%.

AZAD University

Master's degree, Software Engineering

AZAD University

Bachelor's degree, Software engineering