Alok Upadhyay
Software Development Manager at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlok Upadhyay is a software development manager and machine learning engineering leader with 14 years of experience building high-scale voice and identity systems at Amazon, currently heading Ambient Recognition & Authentication for Alexa. He has been a founding engineer on multiple Alexa identity initiatives—driving voice training, automatic voice recognition, and biometric-enabled features—balancing technical trade-offs to deliver low-latency, highly available production systems. Comfortable bridging ML research, speech science, and product stakeholders, he emphasizes operational excellence and pragmatic decision-making to accelerate delivery without one-way-door risks. Based in Seattle, he brings a background across AWS IAM, enterprise security at Symantec, and early fintech and CSR projects, reflecting a mix of deep systems engineering and user-focused product work. Notably, he scales teams and systems with a disciplined sprint culture that sustains rapid iteration under heavy traffic.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
English, HindiGithub contributions (5)
alok-upadhyay/guptSSHClient
Mar 2012 - Jan 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 1 year 9 months
alok-upadhyay/gupt
Mar 2012 - Jan 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 1 year 9 months
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