About

Harsha Nagesh is a highly accomplished Senior Software Development Manager at Amazon with over 22 years of experience in the industry. He has a proven track record of launching products from ideation to impact, with some of his products having a business impact of over 100 million dollars. Harsha has expertise in various domains such as distributed search, information retrieval, structured finance, mathematical optimization, location-based services, optical networking, parallel computing, data mining, and machine learning for e-commerce risk management. Harsha has led 50+ member teams owning critical systems and consistently delivered exceptional results through innovative products. He has transformed innovation into successful products and holds 22 US patents. Currently, Harsha leads the Unified Risk Evaluation System at Amazon, which is responsible for preventing bad actor risks worldwide. In his previous role as a Software Development Manager at Amazon, Harsha led the worldwide Buyer Abuse risk management program, which resulted in tens of millions of dollars of bottom-line impact for the company. Prior to that, he served as a Lead Technologist at Thomson Reuters, where he led a group of technologists responsible for providing technical oversight to a 100-member engineering team to develop new features for WestLaw Next, the world's leading Legal Information Retrieval System with $5 billion in revenue. Harsha holds a Master of Science (MS) in Computer Engineering from Northwestern University, a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a Pre-University degree from M.E.S College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Malleshwaram, Bangalore-3. He also completed his schooling from Vidya Vardhaka Sangha. Harsha's technical skill set includes Software Engineering, Information Retrieval, Search, ML, and Research Scientist. With his relevant experience of 22.54 years, Harsha has established himself as a highly skilled and experienced professional in the industry.