Brad Karjama

Software Development Manager - Supply Chain Optimization Technology @Amazon

CA

Managed teams that own the business development, software development, and operation of 3 distinct business domains: 1) Procurement Infrastructure, which owns Amazon\'s critical-path supply chain systems that generate tens-of-millions of purchase orders each year, representing hundreds of billions of dollars in real and virtual inventory, 2) PO User Experience, which owns web portals to receive signals from vendors and internal users regarding their ability to fulfill POs, and 3) Out of Stock Supply Forecasting, which enables the sale of out-of-stock items on Amazon marketplace websites by predicting future supply availability- People leader of 26 resources including engineering managers, software developers, and business intelligence engineers operating in a hybrid work environment in 5 major cities across 2 time zones- Collaborated and negotiated with 250+ internal stakeholder teams and senior leaders from around the world to evaluate, prioritize, and estimate cost and benefit to long-term free cash flow for proposed projects- Owned developing and executing multi-year strategic technology plans, including successfully delivering a paradigm-shifting initiative to improve how out-of-stock predictions are created and published to downstream dependencies- During the pandemic, increased gross merchandising sales of out-of-stock items from $1.0 to $4.5 billion by improving the selection coverage and world-wide parity of machine learning models that predict Amazon\'s ability to replenish out-of-stock inventory- Increased scope by successfully moving the Procurement Infrastructure group to the Toronto office, rebuilding the team from the ground-up by hiring, training, and re-organizing 18 engineering resources. Eliminated historical tech-debt and improved operational excellence, cutting the number of annual high-severity tickets in half- Achieved the rare honour of receiving an Amazon performance rating of \"Exceeds\" for 3 consecutive years.

University of Toronto

BASc, Computer Engineering