Uttara Shekar
Software Development Manager at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolUttara Shekar is a software development manager with 12+ years of engineering experience and a decade at Amazon, currently leading teams that build the intelligence layer behind Rufus, Amazon’s conversational shopping assistant serving hundreds of millions of customers. She has driven measurable product impact—50M+ incremental engagements, 66% personalized AI responses through automated memory extraction, and a gRPC streaming API that handled 70K+ TPS on Prime Day with zero downtime. Equally comfortable in strategy and deep technical design, she scaled deployment velocity by 50%+ and reduced multi-turn conversation defects while promoting engineers through deliberate sponsorship and a “lead-of-leads” coaching model. A hands-on background as an IC across mobile, backend, and cloud microservices (including contributions to the AWS ECS CLI) gives her credibility to implement robust, production-grade systems and DevOps improvements. She champions AI-augmented engineering workflows and LLM-assisted tooling to multiply team throughput, and she’s the author of a practical guide for first-time founders, reflecting her systematic approach to turning chaos into structure. Based in Seattle with a Master’s in Computer Science from Northeastern, Uttara blends operational instinct, technical depth, and people-first leadership to deliver scalable AI products.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology at Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Mumbai
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
docker10
dockers10
aws-cloudformation10
go10
aws-ecs10
devops9
yaml9
cli8
command-line-interface8
command-line8
constants6
accelerometer6
http-client6
android-studio6
android6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-ecs-cli
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
The Amazon ECS CLI enables users to run their applications on ECS/Fargate using the Docker Compose file format, quickly provision resources, push/pull images in ECR, and monitor running applications on ECS/Fargate.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 55 commits, 75 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Uttara contributed to the AWS ECS CLI by implementing support for new Docker options within the Compose YAML file, enhancing the tool's compatibility with Docker Compose configurations. They added the `image-id` option to the `ecs-cli up` command, improving cluster deployment flexibility. Furthermore, the user addressed deployment-related issues by including dependencies within the CloudFormation template and updating the CLI to handle deployment configurations.
monitorpushecrcomposeecs-fargate
uttarasridhar/api
Oct 2020 - Nov 2022
The API microservice to manage votes.
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 1 month
golangapivotesmicroservicesmicroservice-api
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