Summary
Omkar Hegde is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable distributed systems and cloud services, currently at AWS working on ECS after prior roles across AWS CloudFormation and Amazon Last Mile Technology. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science with a specialization in Distributed Systems from Rochester Institute of Technology and has deep hands-on experience in high-performance storage and database engines from work at Microsoft Azure and Intel. Omkar’s background spans full lifecycle product development—designing protocols and algorithms in research settings, implementing firmware and drivers, and owning production services at scale. He brings a practical focus on reliability and performance, demonstrated by contributions to memory-optimized OLTP engines, hyperscale database work, and infrastructure automation. Based in Washington, Omkar couples systems-level expertise with a track record of rapidly ramping across domains, from IoT and FPGA tooling to large-scale cloud orchestration.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at Padre Conceicao College
Konkani, English, Hindi, Marathi