Sandeep R.

About Sandeep R.

A seasoned Engineering Leader with 20+ years of experience scaling distributed platforms, building FinTech and media systems, and delivering AI-integrated products at Amazon, Audible and Google Cloud. Proven track record of leading platform engineering organizations that drive developer productivity, customer value, and operational excellence. I specialize in building high-performing teams, setting long-term vision, and fostering inclusive culture focusing on delivering customer-centric products that drive business growth. Core Strength and Impact:* Platform Engineering Leadership: Built scalable global payments and entitlement platforms, enabling web/mobile app growth. Delivered Payments platform with success rate exceeding industry benchmarks. Expertise in building regulatory compliant systems and increasing operational excellence.* Cross-Functional Strategy: Partnered with Product & external stakeholders to align platform investments with business priorities. Launched multi-tiered Audible subscription and Podcasts on Audible with 15M+ daily episodes* Cloud Transformation: Led the successful migration of standalone cloud observability tools to a fully integrated suite on GCP, enhancing interoperability and providing a unified customer experience.* Team Development: Proven ability to develop and lead geographically dispersed engineering teams, fostering a culture of excellence and mentoring future leaders to drive organizational success.* Education: Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in Finance and Technology, BE in Instrumentation and Electronics.Skills:Technology leadershipApplication developmentProgram managementDevOps and AutomationCloud platformsArchitecture and designCustomer satisfactionInnovationMentoring and team development

Experience

1. Software Development Manager

   Amazon

   Oct 2022 — Present · Jersey City, NJ, US

   Amazon FinTech builds and operates global disbursement capability catering to a wide array of Amazon Payees, including Corporate Vendors, Sellers, Delivery partners, Digital content creators, Game developers, Employee Payroll and more. We handle global payments originating from 60+ countries in 70+ currencies supporting Real-time payments, batched payments, Card payments and more. In 2024, we disbursed 52M payments worth $560M with an annual growth over 25%.

Education

• Bangalore University

  Bachelor of Engineering, Instrumentation Technology

  1994 — 1998

• New York Institute of Technology

  MBA, Information Technology

  2007 — 2008

Skills

• Software Development
• Software Project Management
• Itil
• Program Management
• IT Operations
• Data Warehousing
• Iis
• Performance Tuning
• Offshoring
• Sql
• Web Services
• Project Management
• Asp.net
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• IT Strategy
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• IT Service Management
• Data Center
• .net Framework
• .net
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Soa
• Disaster Recovery
• Enterprise Architecture
• Data Migration
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Web Applications
• Infrastructure
• Requirements Gathering
• Architecture