# Aadithya Umashankar

> Sofware Engineer @ Retell AI | Ex-Meta | Ex-Amazon | Tech Advisor at Advize | UCLA MBA

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aadithyaumashankar

As a seasoned software industry professional, I have a proven track record of success in software development and AWS. I possess strong leadership skills and have led multiple successful projects and teams throughout my career.

I have achieved numerous successes in designing, developing, and implementing cutting-edge technologies. My experience includes serving as the technical lead for a confidential Machine Learning program for Amazon Studios, where I collaborated closely with teams from Alexa, Amazon AI, and Prime Video to file several patents. Additionally, I played a critical role in the successful launch of AWS Honeycode by designing and developing several essential backend components, resulting in robust and scalable architecture.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Retell AI
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Building voice AI agents for call centers. Backed by Alt Capital and partnered with OpenAI. 
One of the leanest startups in the world: https://leanaileaderboard.com/

### Tech Advisor @ advize
Jan 2023 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | Menlo Park, California, United States
Meta — BizAI Data Team
Automating business-to-customer conversations through AI in WhatsApp and Messenger — supporting lead generation, FAQs, business information, and product catalog discovery. Focused on transforming unstructured data into structured formats to support indexing and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for Meta’s Business AI systems.

Facebook Groups AI
Enhancing engagement in Facebook Groups with LLM-powered conversation starters — applying generative AI to spark relevant, high-quality discussions across communities.

### Senior Software Engineer - Team Lead @ Amazon
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Amazon — Generative AI (Rufus) & Evaluation Systems
* Launch team behind Rufus, Amazon’s generative AI-powered shopping assistant.
* Worked on conversational data pipelines transforming large-scale dialogue data using LLM workflows for fine-tuning and continuous model improvement.
* Led automated evaluation initiatives, designing signal frameworks to assess LLM outputs on truthfulness, faithfulness, harmfulness, and domain-specific guidance such as medical advice.

Amazon Prime Video and Studios
* Contributed to an ML initiative enabling auto-dubbing and lip-syncing of Amazon Studios originals, expanding global reach through automated multilingual content generation.

### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2016 – Jan 2023 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
AWS Honeycode

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India


## Education
### Master of Business Administration - MBA in Technology Management and Entrepreneurship
UCLA Anderson School of Management

### Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Science
College of Engineering, Guindy

### Higher education in Computer Science
SBOA Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Anna nagar, Chennai

### SSLC
SBOA Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Anna nagar, Chennai


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aadithyau

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Last updated: 2026-04-10