Krithika S.

Software Development Manager in Amazon

Greater Dublin

About

An experienced professional and leader with 19 years of IT experience, predominantly in Tech Consulting and 8+ years in Product development and Engineering. Currently working in Amazon Dublin as part of the engineering org and work towards delivering complex customer facing solutions in the email space. My team includes a set of competent engineers and program managers who plan, design, build and launch products that support traversal of billions of email messages annually. My team operates with a DevOps culture and owns and supports legacy applications while also driving innovation using modern technologies to meet the ever-changing needs of the customer at Amazon's scale. Other Specialties: • Skills: Delivery management, Goal planning and scoping, Stakeholder management, People & Team management, Business Analysis, Data modelling, Functional & Technical Design , Documentation, Waterfall & Agile • Technologies: Predominantly Java/J2EE Frameworks (including Spring/Struts), Data modelling, SQL/NoSQL, AWS technologies

Experience

  • Amazon ()
    • Software Development Manager III
      Apr 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

      Managing an engineering team including software engineers and program managers working on product suite of email services. I also own our team's roadmap, strategy, customers and stakeholders interactions on our services related to Amazon's complex email routing infrastructure that processes billions of messages annually. My team develops solutions for Amazonians to send and receive emails via different mediums and ensures productivity and business continuity. This is more complex than it sounds because of the scale at Amazon. We work on both modern and legacy infrastructure and take ownership to deliver a better tomorrow to our customers. I strongly believe in developing those around you through continuous feedback , both encouraging and constructive. I am invested in the success of my team, customers and stakeholders and work actively with them to remove any blockers. I seek feedback and encourage discussions but don't hesitate to take calculated risks or make a hard decision. Doing the right thing is important to me even if the journey to reach there is hard.

    • Software Development Manager
      Nov 2020 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Led and scaled the enterprise email team in Dublin. My team owned 20 different services that managed email lists, mass communications and email routing for internal business teams and external customers. I played a critical role in scaling up the Dublin team. Between Jun and Oct 2021, my team grew from 3 to 10 as part of my hiring efforts. I authored a strategy document that resulted in hiring a new manager and creation of new team to lead a subset of my services to 1) provide better customer experience with focussed technical improvements and 2) better team experience for the new hires and promote job satisfaction and work-life balance.

  • Deloitte Ireland (8 yrs 1 mo)
    • Solutions Manager / Architect
      Sep 2017 - Oct 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos

      Though I was a permanent employee of Deloitee, I was working for a public-sector client full-time in their Business Intelligence team for almost 8 years. I started in a Consultant role and at the time of leaving, was a seasoned Manager after having earned 3 promotions. My work started as being a individual contributor working on Java/J2EE applications focussed on transactional operations for customer matching and compliance tracking/insights. I eventually led the technical project delivery of an international exchange program delivering 4 projects and leading a cross-vendor team of 6-8 developers. Besides my full-time impact at the client program, I owned the Finance operations for the whole client account and was responsible for timely and accurate billing. Drove finance compliance activties across a team of 90 and developed budget reports, investment and value-add reports. Built the resourcing pipeline not just for my team but for the wider business. Assisted with any tenders or business proposals, leading the value-proposition in the client's BI space. Was also a member of Deloitte's Inter-European Talent and People Initiatives across the firm.

    • Senior Solutions Engineer
      Sep 2016 - Aug 2017 · 1 yr

    • Senior Consultant
      Sep 2013 - Aug 2016 · 3 yrs

  • Consultant at IBM India Software Lab
    Sep 2010 - Aug 2012 · 2 yrs

    Worked in Sterling Commerce suite of products that specialised in Order capturing and fulfillment solutions. Was part of the Product consulting team where my team customised the Sterling order capturing and fulfillment systems for customers like Xpedx. I wrote papers on product bugs and customer impact influencing the Product Engineering team to innovate on existing product APIs. Also developed and published a paper on a re-usable code component within Sterling COM product that was approved by an architectural panel for use in similar Sterling commerce use-cases. Later, I was part of the core team trained in IBM Webspehere commerce and worked with clients like David Jones[Australia] on solutions that integrated IBM Websphere commerce with Sterling Distributed order management.

  • Associate Consultant at Polaris Software Lab
    Sep 2009 - Sep 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo

    During my stint with Polaris, I worked with their clients BNP Paribas and Fidelity Investments from locations in Mumbai and Bangalore. I developed and enhanced applications using PHP, SQL, Java/J2EE

  • Senior Software Engineer at MindTree Ltd.
    Sep 2006 - Sep 2009 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Joined Mindtree as a Programmer Analyst post my bachelor degree and started working on Java/J2EE projects in the manufacturing and retain domain customers, building shopping carts, product catalogue pages, calculating payments and order processing. At the end of my stint with MindTree, I was operating as a senior software engineer with more impactful workstreams.