Summary
Biraj Parikh is a Software Engineering Manager at Amazon with a decade of experience building distributed systems and satellite infrastructure, currently leading work on Amazon LEO (formerly Project Kuiper). He joined Amazon as an engineer on Project Kuiper after contributing to AWS EFS, bringing production-grade systems design and operational rigor to connectivity and cloud storage problems. A Northwestern CS graduate and former DAAD-RISE research intern, Biraj combines academic research in assistive robotics with hands-on product engineering across telematics, rehabilitation robotics, and data-driven tooling. He has a background mentoring peers and developing AI/ML curriculum, signaling a strong aptitude for coaching engineers and translating complex technical concepts for wider audiences. Based in New York, he pairs systems-level thinking with a knack for cross-disciplinary collaboration that surfaces in both research and large-scale engineering programs.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate: Advanced, Physics, Certificate: Advanced, Physics at Ohlone College
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Northwestern University
French, Gujarati, English