Venkata Krishnan Ramamoorthy

About Venkata Krishnan Ramamoorthy

19 years of experience across Amazon, Bright Machines and Yahoo. Led and built several 0-1 initiatives, scaled out to millions of customers with cost efficiency. Architected and hands-on experience with high-scale distributed systems, computer vision solutions, desktop solutions, device software. Exposure to several AWS technologies at depth over the course. Pioneered several wide-impacting initiatives.Notable products and solutions built over the course:+ Brightware Studio: Ground up initiative to help customers orchestrate assembled hardware (Fanuc Arm, Conveyors, Cameras etc.), Beckhoff and CV modules.+ Kindle Android In-app purchases in European region and US+ Photos Gather: Social photo capture and collection during events+ Amazon Photos People Views & Memory generations available across Alexa/FireTV wallpapers (powered by several CV models behind the scenes)+ Photos Search and Orchestration Infrastructure+ Messaging & Announcements as part of Alexa+ Re-architecture of Calling enabling 6+ teams to work on features in parallel+ Search and system applications in resource-constrained 7\" inch Fire tablets+ Unlocking non-fiction content across marketplaces on Kindle with file format, device SDKs, rendering innovations and several authoring tools+ Yahoo! Developer Platform (various web services and monetization platform).

Experience

1. Principal Software Engineer

   Amazon

   Jun 2010 — Present · Chennai, IN

   Kindle: Currently leading Kindle purchase and payments charter driving several ongoing experience, fintech and architectural initiatives in the space.+ Kindle: Led and Built non-fiction category for Kindle from file formats, device SDKs, authoring tools (Previewer, Kindle Comic Creator, Kindle Kids Book Creator, Kindle TextBook Creator) collaborating with rendering stacks+ Photos: Drove the gather idea ground up from a hackathon to product launch+ Photos: CV initiatives driving a highly accurate people view in Photos, and smart selection of photos to display in wallpapers+ Photos: Infrastructure initiatives to scale out search infrastructure to millions of customers & billions of photos, Cost and Dev Velocity efficient orchestration for several photos processors+ Alexa Comms: Zero to ONE development of messaging and announcements. Overhaul of calling stack to scale out and parallelize features.+ Fire Tablets: Launched cloud solutions for search and several optimizations to ensure system applications run on a constrained 7\" hardware Software Engineer (Chennai, India)- June 2023+Principal Software Engineer (Seattle, WA, US)- Apr 2022 - June 2023Software Development Engineer - (Seattle, WA, US): Jan 2016 to July 2019, July 2020 - Mar 2022Software Development Engineer - (Chennai, India): April 2013 to Dec 2015Software Development Engineer - II (Chennai, India): July 2012 to March 2013Software Development Manager (Chennai, India): December 2011 to June 2012Software Development Engineer - II (Chennai, India): June 2010 to November 2011

Education

• PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore

  M.Sc, Software Engineering

  2001 — 2006

Skills

• Web Services
• Java
• Javascript
• Xml
• Perl
• Software Development
• Json
• Soa
• Php
• Linux
• C
• Databases
• Soap
• C