Mahesh Shankar
Building Cool Things at Amazon
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolMahesh Shankar is a seasoned technology leader with more than 20 years of experience driving innovation and growth across startups and large-scale organizations. Currently at Amazon, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to build compelling, scalable products. He has led technology and product organizations as CTO at Influx Worldwide and Zivame, co-founded TenTenTen Digital, and served on the board of Mayajaal, reflecting a track record of turning vision into delivered systems. His early career spans architecture and engineering roles at Transera Communications, Vovida Networks, Cisco, grounding his leadership in deep technical breadth from VoIP and distributed systems to cloud-native platforms. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines regional focus with global product thinking, drawing on an electronics and communications engineering background from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering. He also brings a rare blend of startup pragmatism and enterprise-scale discipline, enabling teams to move fast while maintaining reliability.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
SBOANorth Carolina State UniversityBE, Electronics and Communication, BE, Electronics and Communication at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
sql-server6
apache-spark6
pandas6
beautifulsoup6
sql6
python6
scala6
subquery6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tarun4931/ING_UI_product_hackathon
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
maheshshankar/Polymer-3
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 months
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