About

Ananth Duggirala is a highly experienced Senior Manager with almost two decades of relevant experience in the software development industry. He is currently the Head of Engineering for Alexa Skills Content Moderation & Monitoring at Amazon, where he leads a global multi-disciplinary team of engineering, product, program, and sciences professionals. As the Single Threaded Leader (STL) of this team, Ananth is responsible for ensuring customer experience (CX), privacy, security/trust, and policy compliance for Alexa Skills. Ananth's main responsibilities include defining and executing the long-term product and engineering vision for scaling skills content moderation and monitoring. His team has enabled developers to create high-quality voice experiences for Alexa through services that have helped them decrease time to market skills by 8X. Additionally, his team is responsible for protecting customer experiences with skills through monitoring services that ensure privacy, security, and policy compliance. Ananth has built his tech stack on AWS services and Machine Learning, which have significantly reduced certification latency, defect detection latency in live skills, and operational costs. Prior to his current role at Amazon, Ananth held Principal Software Engineering Manager positions at Microsoft, where he worked on Update Adoption & Enablement (WSD) and Windows Servicing & Delivery. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago and has expertise in Senior Software Engineering, SDET, Software Engineering, AWS, and ML. Ananth is a highly skilled and experienced professional who has a proven track record of delivering exceptional results. He is passionate about using technology to improve customer experiences and is always looking for new and innovative ways to achieve this goal. With almost 20 years of experience in the industry, Ananth is a valuable asset to any organization looking to improve their software development capabilities.