About

Amitha Talasila is an accomplished Engineering Leader at Amazon with over 15 years of industry experience. She has worked in various roles, including Senior Engineer, Engineering Leader, and Product Manager. Her passion lies in leading business-critical product areas that require a mix of technical, people, and product focus. She excels in inspiring and empowering teams to realize their full potential. Currently, Amitha works as a Software Development Manager at Amazon. In her previous role at Pegasystems, she was a Senior Product Manager Cloud and owned the product vision and execution of control plane services for Pega Cloud. She worked on several initiatives, including proposing distributed tracing across components based on Open Telemetry, improving the upgrade success rate of tenant environments, defining the technical roadmap for control plane services, and leading the specification and execution of the Cloud Storage subsystem. Before that, Amitha was a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Pegasystems, where she built and led a group of 18+ engineers and architects to deliver multiple differentiating capabilities for the Pega platform. She also led the design, implementation, roadmap, and user studies of the effort to rebuild the background processing framework in Pega and improve the stability of the caching subsystem of the product on Pega Cloud. Amitha holds a B.Tech degree in Electrical & Electronics from the National Institute of Technology, Warangal. Her tech stack includes Software Engineering, Product Management, Senior Software Engineering, and Kafka. With relevant experience of 16.03 years, Amitha is a highly skilled and experienced Engineering Leader with a proven track record of delivering results.