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
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
Sr Software Development Manager
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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