Summary
Liju Jayakumar is a senior software engineer based in Seattle with 8 years at Amazon and 15+ years of overall technical experience building large-scale, customer-facing systems. He currently leads work on the Core Shopping Experience—shaping the Amazon homepage, navigation and mobile-first discovery features that drive daily customer engagement at massive scale. Prior to this he helped architect Alexa Smart Home integrations and contributed to the industry-wide Matter initiative, blending device connectivity, security, and developer tooling. His background includes hands-on architecture and team leadership across .NET, cloud services, and frontend stacks from earlier roles at UST Global and Clinipace, with practical experience applying ML techniques in forensic and tax domain projects. Liju pairs product-focused engineering with developer advocacy (AI Ambassador) and a curiosity for systems that sit between hardware, cloud and consumer UX. He studies computer science formally while maintaining a learner’s mindset—reflected in his Github persona, “Student Profile - Knowledge makes a World of Difference.”
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of the People
Electronics engineering Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Electronics engineering Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at State Board of Technical Education, Kerala
English, Hindi, Malayalam