Paresh Mundade

About Paresh Mundade

As a Senior Engineering Manager at AWS, I lead an amazing team that owns Amazon Route 53\'s data plane, a Tier0 DNS service with 100% SLA that serves billions of queries per day. I have over 15 years of experience in computer networking and cloud, with a Bachelors in Engineering (Electronics) from the University of Mumbai.I am passionate about building network software and running DNS services at immense scale, solving hard technical and non-technical problems, working with some of the brightest people, and cultivating an amazing work culture in the organization. I also have extensive experience in product and technical program management, delivering features and solutions that meet customer and business needs, working across teams and organizations, and mentoring engineers and managers. I believe that happiness is the key to a high performing team and that a good work-personal life harmony is necessary for that happiness.

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager (Network Software)

   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

   Oct 2021 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Managing an amazing team that owns Amazon Route 53\'s data plane - AWS\'s Tier0 DNS service with 100% SLA* Building network software and running DNS services at immense scale - serving Billions of queries/day * Solving hard problems - technical design based OR anything else, working with some of the brightest people, cultivating an amazing work culture in the organization * Roadmap planning - strategic as well day-to-day sprint planning | Working cross teams solving ambiguous… Show more * Managing an amazing team that owns Amazon Route 53\'s data plane - AWS\'s Tier0 DNS service with 100% SLA* Building network software and running DNS services at immense scale - serving Billions of queries/day * Solving hard problems - technical design based OR anything else, working with some of the brightest people, cultivating an amazing work culture in the organization * Roadmap planning - strategic as well day-to-day sprint planning | Working cross teams solving ambiguous problems across dependencies - leveraging the team strength* Believe that happiness is the key to a high performing team and that a good work-personal life harmony is necessary for that happiness* Actively investing time in hiring, interviewing and developing the best and mentoring across teams* Looking to expand the fun-loving and happy team - hiring SDEs and System Developers to keep breaching the limits of capacity, availability and security needs on behalf of AWS customers

Education

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelors in Engineering

  1999 — 2003

• University of Southern California

  M.S.

  2004 — 2006