Greater Seattle Area
I run AI and Data services in AWS. I have been awarded (or filed for) more than 250 patents, authored around 40 referred scientific papers and journals, and participate in several academic circles and conferences. In addition to these, I was part of the team that built several AWS Services like CloudFront, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon's Paxos based lock service, original Amazon Dynamo etc. I was also one of the main authors for Amazon Dynamo paper (http://bit.ly/1mDs0Yh) along with Werner Vogels. Amazon Dynamo now is the foundation for many other NoSQL systems like Riak, Cassandra and Voldemort.
I manage our database, analytics and machine learning services in AWS. I am excited about enabling developers, data scientists and businesses "to put their data to work" by bring state-of-the-art technologies in databases to handle transactional data, making it easy to analyze and visualize them, and then finally derive insights powered by machine learning. Databases: https://aws.amazon.com/products/databases/, Analytics: https://aws.amazon.com/big-data/datalakes-and-analytics/ Machine learning: https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/. I am hiring VPs, Directors, Product managers, Principal Engineers, and ML scientists for various roles. So, please send me an email to [email protected] if you are interested.
The National AI Advisory Committee (NAIAC) advises the U.S. President and the White House on the state of science around AI and U.S. AI workforce & competitiveness.
My team’s mission is “To put machine learning capabilities in the hands on every developer and data scientist.” My organization works on all aspects of machine learning: right from ML frameworks and infrastructure, Amazon SageMaker (an end to end service for building, training and deploying ML models in the cloud and at the edge), and AI services (Transcribe, Translate, Personalize, Forecast, Rekognition etc) that make it easier for app developers to incorporate ML into their apps with no ML experience required. Also, see other coverage on reinvent ML launches: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-web-services-announces-13-new-machine-learning-services
I was the GM for NoSQL(Dynamo, ElastiCache) and Analytics (QuickSight) in Amazon. I bootstrapped the NoSQL services team for Amazon from scratch and got DynamoDB and ElastiCache to be two of the key pillar services for AWS with broad success in adoption and revenue. I was responsible for the vision, execution and operations of these services. I managed the engineering, product management and operations for core AWS database services that are the foundational building blocks for AWS: DynamoDB, AWS Transactional Services (Paxos based lock services, replication infrastructure), Elasticache (in-memory engines), SimpleDB, and a few other services that were in the works. I have built several large scale systems in the past. Some of the well known ones (that is externally visible) include Amazon Dynamo and DynamoDB, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon RDS, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon's core Paxos infra and Amazon SNS Mobile Push. I has also built other large scale systems that is used for building Amazon service infrastructure including its core distributed lock service infrastructure. I am also one of the main authors of Amazon Dynamo paper (along with Werner Vogels) that was published in SOSP 2007 and became the foundation of several other NoSQL stores. For more information on DynamoDB, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz-7wJJ9HZ0 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjJ3Dkl6VS4 For Elasticache, see: http://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/ To build a 1TB cache in a matter of minutes, use Elasticache: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FQAtbgXrdY For QuickSight, see http://aws.amazon.com/quicksight Product pages for services I managed: http://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/ http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/ http://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/ http://aws.amazon.com/quicksight
Switching from a Principal Engineer (who hands on built several AWS services) to engineering leadership, I bootstrapped NoSQL database services in AWS which started the whole DynamoDB, Core Paxos fabric layer and our ElastiCache layer.