Shivam Sharma

Engineering Leader | Scaling AI/ML platforms serving millions | B2B Growth & Analytics, Consumer IoT/Smart Home | Amazon, Alexa, Accenture

New York City Metropolitan Area

About

I build and scale engineering organizations that ship products at massive scale — from AI-powered platforms serving millions of sellers to embedded software running on hundreds of millions of alexa/echo devices. Currently at Amazon leading a 3+ team org building the next generation of AI-driven growth systems for worldwide sellers. Previously spent 4 years at Alexa Smart Home, where I grew a team from 4 to 20+ engineers and shipped software deployed on 200M+ Echo devices, controlling 500M+ endpoints. Before Amazon, at Accenture, I was one of three founding engineers on a Fortune 10s connected vehicle IoT platform. Over 7 years, I scaled from individual contributor to Senior Engineering Manager leading a 44-person global org across 3 countries. What I do: • Build and turn around engineering teams — I've inherited orgs in crisis and transformed them into top performers driving significant business impact • Ship at scale — consumer IoT (hundreds of millions of devices), B2B platforms (millions of users), enterprise systems (millions of daily transactions) • Develop leaders — promoted a Principal Engineer, multiple Engineering Managers, and dozens of senior engineers across my career Domains: Agentic AI, ML/MLOps, Real-time Data Pipelines, Embedded/On-Device Software, IoT Protocols (Matter, Zigbee, BLE, Thread), Connected Vehicles I'm always happy to connect with engineering leaders, founders, and anyone passionate about building great teams and products.

Experience

  • Amazon (6 yrs 10 mos)
    • Engineering Leader
      Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

      Lead engineering for seller growth recommendations and plans platform.

    • Software Engineering Manager
      Nov 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

      EM for World Wide Amazon Sellers for Sales and Traffic domain, analytics and metrics.

    • Software Engineering Manager
      Oct 2019 - Nov 2023 · 4 yrs 2 mos

      I lead engineering for local/edge Smart Home for Alexa. - My team owns Alexa Smarthome-hub capabilities across all echo devices (25+). Discovery, control and state for 10+ local protocols (standards such as matter, zigbee, thread etc. and custom protocols over wi-fi and BLE) for 100 million+ endpoints. - We also support mission critical features such as FFS (magic setup), OTA (over the air update), casting etc. - We also provide on-device infrastructure for domains such as Gadgets, Sensors, Alexa Guard etc. - Our software also runs Firetv and Eero devices. - We also own components which enable local (w/o cloud) voice, touch and state modalities providing ultra-low latency and reliability experiences for hero features.

  • Accenture (6 yrs 4 mos)
    • Senior Manager
      Nov 2017 - Oct 2019 · 2 yrs

    • Digital Technology Manager
      Nov 2015 - Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    • Consultant
      Sep 2014 - Oct 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Software Implementation Technology Consultant

  • Associate, Software Developer at Acquity Group
    Aug 2012 - Jun 2013 · 11 mos

    Technical Services and Experience Management Acquity was acquired by Accenture in 2013

  • Resident Advisor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Aug 2010 - Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    •Developed, led & conducted programs on diversity, academic performance, personal development, chemical abuse, technology & relationships for 30 to 600 students •Organized & planned the Academic Support Committee for 1200 students of the Residence Hall •Served as a leader & role model to residents •Managed daily administrative tasks & enforced college policy

  • Product Management Intern at Turn
    May 2011 - Aug 2011 · 4 mos

    - Synthesized research on emerging markets & proposed international expansion - Designed, created & launched company’s product training center; still used by 300 internal stakeholders - Analyzed user needs & created personas for the new generation Turn Platform - Created product requirement & market research documents for the Turn Platform - Boosted sales & revenue by producing training material for flagship product to aid end customers & prospective partners