Steve Beach

About Steve Beach

Results oriented professional with over 25 years experience (14 years at Amazon) in…

Experience

1. Sr Manager, Software Development, Amazon Logistics & Last Mile Delivery Tech

   Amazon

   Jun 2020 — Present

   Lead 40+ tech organization consisting of Business Intelligence Engineers, Data Engineers, Product Manager - Techs, and Software Development Engineers. We built planning systems (and data pipelines, dashboards, analytics) to ensure we had enough delivery capacity to meet customer demand while minimizing excess capacity. I helped grow the organization from 15 to 40+ FTEs and set the north star vision to standardize, centralize, automate, and optimize our planning processes. We improved our cost structure by $200M+ annualized by converting manual processes to centralized products, automating data pipelines, reducing manual steps, reducing cycle time (that then enabled planners to do scenario planning and improve accuracy), and launched route scheduling optimization models. Additionally, my team built and launched two platform-level products designed to accelerate and scale my organization\'s ability to solve business problems. First, the SDEs built a workflow orchestration product that enabled BIEs to focus on writing code (that solved business problems, such as complex ETL or entire end-to-end planning steps) without needing to know about nor maintain the underlying compute infrastructure. Second, the SDEs built a real-time, central, and authoritative repository for storing planning data. This provides clients single-source-of-truth access and enabled end-to-end, hands-off-the-wheel planning via document notifications. In 2023, BIEs built solutions that have improved cost structure by $40M+ annualized.