# Ganesh Sankaran > SDE II @ Amazon Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ganesh Have no fear, I'm an engineer! As a software engineer in big tech, I have consistently delivered business-critical projects while continuously improving engineering tooling and processes. Some of my professional highlights are as follows: - I have collaborated with engineering, product, science, business intelligence, and operations stakeholders to deliver complex, ambiguous projects on time with measurable impact. - I have worked on scalable, highly available, data-intensive systems that serve millions of TPS - I have maintained monolithic legacy services and built greenfield services from the ground floor using new managed and/or cloud offerings - I have championed engineering and operational excellence by participating in an oncall rotation, identifying and resolving pain points in the developer experience, and leading service resiliency and readiness campaigns - I have mentored new engineers and interns and sought feedback from my colleagues In addition, I have 3 years of academic research experience and a few publications in software verification. During my BS/MS studies at UC Santa Barbara, I delivered projects both large (multi-year) and small, from proposal through publication. ## Work Experience ### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Jan 2024 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States Organization: Search & Conversational Shopping • Managing proactive/reactive guardrails for Amazon Stores LLMs using low-latency string processing and NLP techniques • Finished a 2-quarter system redesign to simplify data model, enforce data consistency, and save 2 mo/yr in effort, with no outages Organization: Fulfillment Optimization • Built mission-critical tooling and workflows to explain fulfillment control systems that use linear programming and ML • Led 3 devs end-to-end to build a simulation system to enable rapid iteration on controllers' heuristics and hyper-parameters • Mentored 2 interns through doc writing and backend/UI development on operational and engineering excellence projects • Onboarded to and unblocked 2 sister teams' critical-path projects ahead of schedule by doing "away team" work ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Bellevue, Washington, United States Organization: Fulfillment Optimization • Developed shipping method evaluation and ranking features for one of Amazon's most critical and highest-scale systems • Delivered a new system to replan risky shipments using big data processing, an event-driven service, and React, saving $2MM/yr • Saved $5.3MM/yr in infrastructure costs via host type migration, JVM/GC tuning, and autoscaling with no performance drop • Successfully improved system resiliency score by more than 3x in time for Prime Day as part of a VP-level campaign ### Teaching Assistant @ UC Santa Barbara Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Santa Barbara, California, United States • Assisted faculty in teaching CS24 (intermediate C++) and CS185 (human-computer interaction) • Answered 100s of student questions, taught weekly sections and labs, held weekly office hours, read and evaluated student work (homework, programming assignments, exams), and proctored exams • In CS185, I mentored 5 teams of 5 students each on their term-long design projects, which involved needfinding, ideation, low- and high-fidelity prototyping (Figma), and prototype evaluation ### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Greater Seattle Area • Reduced manual effort to analyze transportation capacity breaches during shipping by 75% compared to prior tools and SOPs • Implemented a Ruby on Rails dashboard for 100+ transportation operations users to visualize capacity breach root causes • Developed a Java service to build capacity breach analysis queries from user input and run jobs on Amazon Redshift ### Research Intern (NSF REU) @ UC Santa Barbara Verification Lab Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 • Designed and implemented a novel concolic testing search heuristic based on branch selectivity • Extended CREST, a concolic test generation tool for C programs, to support the heuristic ### Program Manager Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Redmond, Washington, United States • Drove a 6x improvement in efficiency needed ensure compliance of Windows SKUs within a monthly release cadence • Reduced human effort to find false positive and duplicate compliance issues and route work items to dev teams by 90% • Built a low-overhead, highly maintainable compliance scan pipeline using Azure ETL services and the Power Platform ### Web Developer/IT Assistant @ UCSB Facilities and Planning Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Santa Barbara, California Area • Deployed workstations, mobile devices, and applications to >100 Facilities Management users • Developed features for applications on Facilities Management’s intranet • Migrated intranet infrastructure, applications, and data from on-premises to cloud ### Referee @ U.S. Soccer Federation Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Fremont, California, United States ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science UC Santa Barbara Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science UC Santa Barbara Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 ### High School Diploma Irvington High School Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ### Computer Science Mission College ### Mathematics Ohlone College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ganeshsankaran - GitHub: https://github.com/ganeshsankaran - Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l-CFSaUAAAAJ --- Source: https://flows.cv/ganesh JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ganesh/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22