Gideon Raj

About Gideon Raj

Leads a dynamic team of engineers to deliver customer impacting projects that featured…

Experience

1. Software Development Manager

   Amazon

   Aug 2016 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Deliver in-store pickup capability for 3p sellers.[By extending 15+ platform layers within Amazon’s retail ecosystem]Built inventory solution at Amazon to manage store level inventory from 3p sellers.Executed two SVP level goals at Amazon with one of them featured as keynote address at annual seller conference.Launched a new-look Your Addresses Page and a new Promotion Shopping Page at amazon.com.Coach & Build a team from scratch at Amazon and delivered back-to-back SVP level goals between 2020 and 2022.Maintained zero attrition in a team of 10 between 2020 and 2022 contrasting the high companywide attrition rate.Multiplied a single unit team at Amazon into two teams by expanding charter and grooming an engineer into manager.Established an open mechanism to document and periodically calibrate individual performances.System Ownership & 6 new AWS services and formed a new platform to manage location aware inventory at Amazon.Managed tier-1 services at Amazon that receive traffic at hundreds of thousands in TPS.Inherited a decade old service at Amazon and transformed it to be tier-1 service with high resiliency.Business new ideas and influenced management to create a VP level goal for 2022 roadmap at Amazon.Influenced business and defined the minimum viable product when launching store pickup for 3p sellers at Amazon.Domain the problem space of a decade old service from just KTLO to dedicated team with 3-year roadmap.Established a new platform at Amazon to manage location and inventory of 3p sellers.

Education

• University of Madras

  Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  1994 — 1998

Skills

• Web Services
• Enterprise Javabeans (Ejb)
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Jboss Application Server
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Enterprise Architecture
• Integration
• Xml
• Hbase
• Ibm Db2
• Java Message Service (Jms)
• Sql
• Linux
• Jpa
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Db2
• Requirements Analysis
• Avro
• J2ee Web Services
• Software Design
• Software Development
• Javaserver Pages (Jsp)
• Software Engineering
• Agile Methodologies
• Jsp
• Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Java Enterprise Architecture
• Hadoop
• Java
• Json
• System Architecture
• Software Project Management
• Ejb
• Jms
• Soa
• Unix
• Oracle Database
• R