Sekhar Cherukupalli

About Sekhar Cherukupalli

Thorough professional with 20+ years hands-on experience in Delivery Management - PMP Certified, Cloudera Certified,Big Data, Data Warehousing and IT Operations• Demonstrated expertise in driving product vision and road map across various assignments• An effective leader with excellent communication, negotiation and relationship building skills• Skilled in liaising with Project Teams, Business and IT teams to gather, define, clarify and refine requirements; guided the architecture and design of applications• Led large-scale business application architecture and design efforts; developed and maintained application architectures for various business functional areas; resolved integration and interface issues between various applications or systems with focus on optimizing application performance and scalability

Experience

1. Software Development Manager

   Amazon

   Feb 2020 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Manages software development teams with 20+ engineers supporting global compliance and audit solutions, ensuring high software quality, clear direction, and consistent on-time delivery.• Envisions and drives creation of unified data transformation frameworks that balance compliance, scalability, and developer efficiency—enabling global teams to focus on innovation over infrastructure.• Independently owns product roadmaps, strategy, and customer experience for software platforms, aligning technical execution with business priorities.• Spearheaded complex data platform integrations involving multiple engineering and infrastructure teams, creating scalable, reusable frameworks that eliminated ~30K development hours and simplified cross-team data workflows.• Delivered multiple high-impact initiatives such as standardized reporting, large-volume PII data extraction, and secure data enrichment pipelines—each improving compliance accuracy and system scalability.• Led modernization of legacy systems through migrations, JDK upgrades, codebase refactoring, and adherence to stricter testing and observability standards to raise overall code quality.• Mentored and promoted engineers to higher levels, hired and ramped up new SDEs, and delegated architectural ownership to empower senior engineers, fostering leadership depth within the team.• Authored multiple strategy and technical documents (data strategy, audit readiness, product FAQs) influencing broader data engineering and compliance design decisions across partner organizations.• Transformed manual audit and compliance processes into automated, self-serve data solutions—reducing manual effort by over 80% and improving operational efficiency across multiple jurisdictions.• Partnered with tax and compliance stakeholders to proactively identify data risks, improve reconciliation accuracy (up to 96.5%), and prevent audit escalations through deep technical and business understanding.

Education

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  B.Tech, EEE

  1995 — 1999