Sumit Balani
Sr Software Engineering Manager at Amazon
Old Toronto, Ontario, United States
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Top SchoolSumit Balani is a senior software engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently leading teams that power Amazon’s product Search with low-latency, fault-tolerant services. He progressed from hands-on SDE roles at AWS and Amazon Search—where he built real-time ranking engines, telemetry suites, and cost-saving data pipelines—to managing multiple Search platform teams focused on unifying high-performance entry points into backend services. Sumit combines strong technical chops in Java, distributed storage, and real-time infrastructure with operational ownership of billion-object indexes and multi-million-dollar budgets. He has a practical knack for squeezing performance and cost savings out of systems (e.g., shrinking heavy batch jobs and designing telemetry/features that became productized) and mentors teams to deliver production-grade ML-infused search features at scale. Based in Toronto with a Waterloo software engineering degree, he pairs deep engineering experience with product-minded leadership and an investor’s curiosity about reimagining eCommerce via live video.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Software Engineering, Bachelor's of Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
node-application9
algorithm6
singly-linked-list6
linked-list6
javascript6
binary-tree6
java6
nodejs4
youtube4
Github contributions (5)
sumitbalani/Algorithms
Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
sumitbalani/sbalani-resume
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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