About

Dinesh Vijayakumar is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon with over 10 years of experience in the industry. He is a strong technical leader with a proven track record of end-to-end ownership and delivery of large-scale systems. Dinesh specializes in Big Data Technologies, Serverless Architecture & Microservices, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing & Web Services, Machine Learning, and Data Warehousing. Dinesh's current role at Amazon is Senior Software Development Engineer - DC Tech, where he is responsible for designing and developing scalable systems. In his previous role as Senior Software Dev Engineer - Amazon Flex, Dinesh led the architectural design and development of automated surge pricing for Amazon Flex programs. He collaborated with research scientists working on machine learning models to suggest prices based on various factors that influence the supply of labor. Dinesh automated the steps involved in building and developing ML models at scale, which helped developers and research scientists experiment to validate their hypothesis and roll-out features quickly to production in a controlled manner. This multi-year effort has now been launched in multiple countries across the world, resulting in savings of ~100 man-hours per week and enabling Amazon to sustain higher rates of filling labor supply (>97%) in the US alone. Dinesh has also worked as a Software Development Engineer II - Amazon Flex, where he was responsible for designing, developing, and launching automated payments for the Flex Pro program introduced by the Last Mile Organization. He developed Rates Management systems for Flex Programs and mentored interns and new hires in the team. Dinesh drove Operational Excellence best practices across teams. Dinesh holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, and completed his schooling from Devanga Higher Secondary School. He has expertise in Software Engineering, AWS, Big Data, Machine Learning, Microservices, Web, Java, Kotlin, Integration, and Research Scientist. Dinesh has relevant experience of 11.79 years.