Ritwick Manatkar
SDE @ Amazon | MS DS @ UC San Diego | ex-Data Scientist @ SMS digital GmbH | BE Computer Engineering @ PICT
- Role
- Software Engineer at Amazon
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ritwick Manatkar
Hi!I am Ritwick and here is a little about me: Education: Master\'s in Data Science (3.92 GPA) from UC San Diego; Bachelor\'s in Computer Engineering (3.96 GPA) from the University of Pune. Expertise: Over 4 years of experience in building AI/ML solutions, optimizing data pipelines, and leveraging LLMs for intelligent systems. Skills: Proficient in Python, SQL, and TensorFlow with experience in advanced frameworks like LangChain, PyTorch, and Scikit-learn.🧠LLM Experience: Created Map-Reduce LangChain agents and learning pipelines, enhancing course planning efficiency and concept clarity. Collaboration: Mentored teams in AI practices, fostering innovation and skill development. Diverse Projects: From Email Marketing to ECG analysis for heart failure detection to LLMs for Education, consistently delivered high-accuracy, scalable solutions. Passionate Problem Solver: Adept at turning complex data challenges into actionable insights and measurable outcomes. Global Experience: Worked across India, Germany, and the USA.Feel free to connect about opportunities in Software Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning Engineering!
Experience
Software Engineer
Mar 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Led analytics migration as Alexa Now Playing Screen transitioned to new rendering framework, requiring complete re-instrumentation. Collaborated across Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Data teams to design migration strategy, owned schema updates and code changes for all app components, and resolved critical regional data pipeline issues. Enabled successful launch across all 3 regions and supported launch monitoring with data analysis.• Took ownership of unowned Contextual Recommendations feature critical for launch and content discovery. Delivered complete app-side implementation including backend service integration, animated rendering, and responsive grid layouts for multiple screen sizes. Diagnosed and fixed critical touch-handling bug affecting multiple components. Feature now drives ~500K clicks/day.• Owned end-to-end app-side implementation of revenue-driving Amazon Music Unlimited upsell feature for Alexa. Built first queueable overlay component with new orchestration logic, handled complex edge cases across Alexa voice interaction patterns, and coordinated cross-functionally with global Monetization team. Delivered ~10K clicks/day providing consistent upsell exposure to free-tier users.• Inherited deprecation of legacy service receiving ~10M API hits/hour. Collaborated with dependent service owners to execute phased traffic migration, developed execution plan, and drove complete traffic cut-off. Successfully eliminated redundant traffic and cut infrastructure costs.
Education
Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering
2016 — 2020
UC San Diego
Master of Science - MS, Data Science
Thakur Public School
10th ICSE
2014
St Rocks Junior College
12th HSC
2016
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