# Kalyan Kanuri

> Principal SDE at Amazon

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kalyankanuri

Accomplished technology leader and innovator with extensive technical expertise in the architecture, design, and development of diverse enterprise and internet software products. Demonstrated success in creating both large-scale and small-scale products from the ground up, as well as enhancing, integrating, and optimizing existing systems. 

Specialties:
Distributed Systems and Architecture, Data Modeling and Database Design, Batch and Stream Data Processing, Analytics, Online Advertising Systems,  User Profiling and Behavioral Targeting, Cross-Device Identity, Information Extraction.

## Work Experience
### Principal SDE @ Amazon
Jan 2019 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States
Sponsored Products  is the biggest Advertising product of Amazon. I worked as Principal Engineer to build Thematic Search Widgets on Amazon Search. Bootstrapped a new program SP Offsite to extend the Ads to premium non-amazon apps like Pinterest, Offerup. I guide Engineers, Product Managers, Scientists to build features that customer love through experimentation.

### Distinguished Architect @ Verizon Media
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale
I worked as an Architect to Lead the DSP engineering team, consisting of UI, API, Ad Serving, and Machine Learning Pipelines and User Targeting. Built various features that Advertisers loved to take revenue close to 1B per year.

### Architect @ Yahoo
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Sunnyvale
Targeting & Identity Powering Yahoo Ad Platforms - Brightroll DSP+ and Gemini.

### Sr. Engineering Manager @ Yahoo
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Sunnyvale, CA

### Principal Engineer @ Yahoo
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Domain: Display Advertising, Audience sharing, Real time bidding
Division : Advanced Product Group
Team : Rightmedia Applications
Role: Gather requirements, Write design docs, Code, Code review, Ship, Go to Market 
Work: RMX UI and SOAP webservices for RMX API
Technology: Linux/Apache/Mysql/PHP

Projects worked:

Mobile/Techno Targeting 
Content marketplace
Publisher Inventory Visibility Controls
Click Url Testing as part of Trust and Saftey 
Analytics reporting
Trading Pit 
UI Re-architecture

### Tech Lead @ Yahoo
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Domain: Search and Information Extraction
Division : Yahoo! Search Team
Team : Vertical Extraction
Role: Prototype, Code, Ship 
Work: Tool for Annotation, Technology for extraction, Integrate with Yahoo! Indexer
Technology: Java/XSLT

### Sr Software Engineer @ Yahoo
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Domain: Yahoo! Frontend Properties 
Division : Yahoo! India
Team : India Extensions 
Role: Code, Ship
Work:  SMS Backup for Yahoo! India, Yahoo! Messenger J2ME SMS Version  
Technology: C++, J2ME

### Systems Engineer @ Emuzed
Jan 2003 – Jan 2004
Emuzed is Mobile startup in 2003 that was building audio video players on Symbian and UIQ devices, Later got acquired by Huges Software. I was building mobile apps using emuzed audio/video codecs.

### Product Engineer @ Pramati Technologies
Jan 2002 – Jan 2003
One of few product startups in India. Worked on building JMS server for Pramati and integrating into their app server. Worked on  Web container implementation.


## Education
### B.Tech in Computer Science Engieering
National Institute of Technology Warangal

### Gayatri Junior College

### Lutheran High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12