Manan Nayar
Software Development Engineer Ii @Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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WORK HISTORY
Software Development Engineer Ii @Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Vancouver, BC, CA
Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive query service that lets you analyze data without managing servers or infrastructure.* At AWS Athena I was responsible for end-to-end ownership of multiple customer-facing feature launches, spanning product design, backend architecture, capacity provisioning, autoscaling, billing, and metering.* Led the design and launch of Amazon Athena Provisioned Capacity and Athena Capacity Auto Scaling, building highly scalable systems that manage thousands of capacity transactions per minute and support large enterprise customers.* Contributed to the launch of Athena Apache Spark with SageMaker Notebooks, expanding Athena’s interactive analytics and data science capabilities.* Helped architect and evolve the Athena control plane, improving scalability, reliability, and operational excellence for a global, multi-tenant service.* Modernized core admission control, queuing, and scheduling services processing 150M+ queries daily across 30+ regions, reducing transient failures by 80% and improving latency by 45%.* Designed and built event-driven, serverless backend systems using Java, Python, AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, DynamoDB, AWS EventBridge, and AWS API Gateway.* Senior engineer of the Athena Admission Control team, partnering with leadership to define the technical roadmap and growing the team by interviewing, onboarding, and mentoring 10+ engineers.* Led CI/CD and deployment automation initiatives across multiple production pipelines, reducing operational overhead and saving an estimated 165 developer-days per year.* Collaborated closely with product managers to deliver features from concept to production.* Led the adoption of generative AI across the team, driving integration into engineering workflows and production systems to improve developer productivity and feature delivery.
EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University
Master of Science (M.S.), Management Information Systems, General
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science & Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT MANAN NAYAR
Passionate about writing high quality and high performance software, I am interested in solving problems at scale.
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