Summary
Sachiko Banos is a senior engineering manager with two decades of experience scaling mission-critical platforms across startups and large public enterprises, currently leading engineering at Veritone from Irvine, CA. She has a strong track record at Amazon driving cross-functional teams for AWS, Amazon Music, and Alexa, where she set technical vision, launched ground-up products, and rebuilt central QA and productivity functions for 100+ engineers. Known for translating organizational strategy into measurable engineering outcomes, she specializes in modernizing platforms, incident management, and transitioning organizations to dev-ops and autonomous delivery models. A passionate developer of leaders, Sachiko focuses on building high-performing, geographically distributed teams that ship with quality and customer focus. Outside of management, she contributes to open-source documentation—improving CakePHP docs—highlighting attention to developer experience and clarity. Her background in business information systems and SQA certification gives her a pragmatic blend of product, process, and technical rigor.
9 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Business Administration in Information System Decision Science, B.A. Business Administration in Information System Decision Science at Cal State Fullerton, College of Business and Economics
University of California, Irvine
English, Japanese