About

Abhishek Sharma is a Software Development Manager at Amazon, leading the Selection Monitoring team. With almost a decade of experience in the tech industry, he has a strong background in software engineering, information retrieval, big data, and machine learning. At Amazon, Abhishek is responsible for building state-of-the-art information retrieval systems that mine the web and automatically create structured entities from unstructured and semi-structured data. He constantly pushes the boundaries of large-scale distributed systems, elastic computing, big data, and ML technologies to tackle challenges at Amazon's global scale. Before joining Amazon, Abhishek served as an Engineering Manager at Flipkart, where he managed Data Platform & Data Products for Ads, Merchandising, Recommendations, and CRM. Prior to that, he was the Director of Engineering at Sigmoid, where he led real-time data analytics at scale with Apache Spark. He also contributed to Apache Solr and Apache Yetus during his time at Sigmoid. Abhishek holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from IIT. He has a strong technical background in Java, SQL, web development, Redis, JavaScript, Hadoop, AWS, and more. He is also experienced in data engineering, data science, infra, and DevOps. Overall, Abhishek is a seasoned software development manager with a proven track record of building and leading high-performing teams. He is passionate about solving complex technical challenges and leveraging cutting-edge technologies to drive business impact.