Summary
Shivam Maharshi is a Software Development Manager in New York with a decade of experience building and scaling high-throughput e-commerce and platform services at Amazon. He has led teams of 10–30+ engineers across Catalog Syndication, Orders, and Alexa platform projects, owning architecture, security, operations and product launches that support millions of catalog items and billions of requests per day. Known for hiring, coaching and performance assessment, he has conducted 70+ interviews and assessed 25+ developers while driving productivity and quality improvements across organizations. His hands-on background includes designing large-scale migration validation and backfill systems that processed billions of entries with strict latency SLAs, and enabling enterprise-grade catalog syndication APIs for merchants with >1M items. Academic research at Virginia Tech and early work at TiVo and Rackspace reflect a strong foundation in benchmarking, performance optimization and automation. He combines deep distributed-systems expertise with a track record of shipping merchant-facing features that bridge product, legal and cross-organizational constraints.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communications Engineering at Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Virginia Tech
English, Hindi