Summary
Sanjeev Sekar is a seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience, currently managing AWS Labs engineering teams that build scalable, secure systems for Amazon Care. He blends hands-on architecture and engineering—serverless, microservices, ML-driven fraud detection, and React-based UIs—with strong delivery discipline, driving 99.9% uptime and multi-million-dollar budgeting. Sanjeev has repeatedly scaled teams and products—from greenfield cloud services ingesting hundreds of terabytes to fraud-mitigation platforms handling 500K+ daily transactions—while improving deployment cadence and reducing defect rates. He pairs quantitative training in econometrics with practical cloud and UI/UX expertise, enabling data-driven product decisions that measurably cut fraud by 40% and improved response times by 25%. Known for hiring and mentoring talent (85% retention, multiple internal promotions), he also established security-first practices that became company-wide standards. Based in Portland, he enjoys turning complex, compliance-sensitive problems into user-friendly, production-ready products.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA Econometrics and Quantitative Economics, Master of Arts - MA Econometrics and Quantitative Economics at Columbia University
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Hendrix College