Sankalp Verma

Sr. Software Development Manager AI/ML @ Amazon | Gen AI & ML Platform Leader | Ex-Intuit | IIT Roorkee | Leading Gen AI Platform Development

Role
Sr Software Development Manager at Amazon
Location
Seattle, WA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Sankalp Verma

AI/ML Platform Leader with 23 years in software engineering and over 15 years in hands-on engineering leadership roles. Currently leading strategic development of enterprise-scale Generative AI and ML platforms at Amazon. Proven ability to build, scale, and institutionalize AI/ML platforms that power core business functions, drive organization-wide adoption, and support TPS, sub-20ms latency, and 99.99% availability. Adept at cross-functional leadership, platform evangelism, and driving AI-first transformation initiatives. Bar raiser at Amazon. Areas of expertise: Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, MLOps, ML Feature Stores, Platform Engineering, Distributed Systems, Cross-functional Leadership, Technical Strategy.

Experience

  1. Sr Software Development Manager

    Amazon

    Oct 2022 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

    Spearheaded strategy and execution of Amazon’s Universal Feature Catalog (UFC), now the core ML featurization platform across the Amazon catalog organization- Scaled UFC from 39 to 240+ image models (515% growth), supporting 17+ multi-modal feature models and 80B+ features- Launched ML Feature Store to enable secure, scalable, self-serve embedding management, reducing ML time-to-market- Established Annotation Management System (AMS) as the single Human-In-TheLoop annotation platform across Amazon catalog org currently being used by 200+ human Amazon associates- Built the AI First strategy for AMS to reinvent the platform using GenAI- Directed the strategy and development of a GenAI platform to automate Manual Workflows across Amazon Classification org- Led development of GenAI platforms automating manual workflows and supporting 500+ models across Alexa AI, Search Science, M5, and more- Oversaw infrastructure planning, budget, and performance optimization for AI/ML platform org- Filed 2 patents on dataset filtering and SOP automation using iterative ML refinement.

Education

  • Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

    B.Tech.

    1998 — 2002

  • Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

    General Management Programme for IT Executives

    2015 — 2015

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