Ankit Kuwadekar
GM, Private Marketplace (Ads)
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnkit Kuwadekar is a seasoned technology and business leader with 13 years at Amazon building the advertising stack from early days into a $10B+ business, currently leading the Private Marketplace (Deals) for Amazon DSP. He combines product, engineering, machine learning, UX and GTM expertise with hands-on systems experience—scaling teams from dozens to 200+ engineers and operating mission-critical distributed systems handling billions of daily requests. His work spans end-to-end ad infrastructure: real-time auctions, creative rendering at sub-millisecond latencies, attribution for physical retail, and partner-facing APIs. He launched and still maintains a widely used internal hackathon platform adopted by 250k+ Amazonians, showing a knack for developer tooling and grassroots productization. Comfortable owning P&L and cross-functional execution, he’s equally fluent in technical strategy and talent development, having hired and sponsored many senior engineers. Based in Redmond with a BS in Math & CS (ML specialization) from Purdue, he blends rigorous technical depth with pragmatic business judgment.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science Honors (Specialization in Machine Learning), Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science Honors (Specialization in Machine Learning) at Purdue University
Github Skills (6)
decision-tree10
id310
javascript9
nodejs9
macos1
terminal-emulator1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
serendipious/nodejs-decision-tree
Apr 2013 - Oct 2022
NodeJS Implementation of Decision Tree using ID3 Algorithm
Contributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 18 pushes in 9 years 7 months
decision-treedecisionjavascriptnodejsid3-algorithm
serendipious/iTerm2-Minimal-UI
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:1 commit, 4 pushes in 1 day
iterm2emulatormac-osterminal-emulatormac
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