Hrishi Bakshi
Principal Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHrishi Bakshi is a Principal Engineer with 15 years of experience building high-scale, region-aware systems to improve product discovery and purchase flows. Based in Seattle, he leads technical vision and delivers location prediction, regionalization, and ranking capabilities that reduce friction in Amazon’s local shopping experience. His background spans low-level performance work in C and FPGA/ASIC design to full-stack web and mapping projects, giving him uncommon depth across systems, embedded, and cloud platforms. He progressed through engineering roles at Amazon after early careers at Bloomberg and Rutgers, where he led a campus mapping application built on Google App Engine. Known for turning complex regional signals into reliable production features, he balances hands-on coding with cross-team leadership to move experiments to scalable services. Outside core product work he brings a pragmatic mix of performance optimization and data-driven feature design grounded in electrical and computer engineering training.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology Electronics Engineering at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)Master of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University
Marathi, Hindi
Github Skills (75)
lambda10
serverless-application-model9
amplify9
aws-amplify9
serverless-applications9
autocomplete9
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serverless9
sam9
amazon-web-services9
barrage9
aws9
hide9
react9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hsbakshi/reddit_hide_sidebar
Jan 2013 - May 2017
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Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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hsbakshi/reddit-check
Oct 2010 - May 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 6 years 7 months
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