About

Himanshu Agrawal is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer at Amazon, where he is the software engineering team lead in the Alexa Speech Recognition (ASR) Cloud team. He is responsible for managing a team of over 10 engineers to improve speech recognition for Alexa customers and increase adoption worldwide. As an engineering team lead, Himanshu wears multiple hats, including being a developer, code/design reviewer, mentor/guide, SRE, on-call support for Tier-1 services, inventor, and planner for current and future projects. Himanshu's key contributions at Amazon include simplifying the ASR Cloud services architecture by introducing cell-based architecture to develop a low maintenance cost solution to manage fleets for audio processing services containing 10,000+ hosts. He also introduced the ability to conduct large-scale A/B testing involving millions of customers for ASR ML model releases, providing much-needed visibility on customer-facing metrics. Himanshu designed and developed an ML model release automation framework to safely release 100s of ML models per month across multiple audio processing Tier-1 services in the ASR org. He also designed and developed a false traffic suppression service for Alexa to safeguard Alexa from media-induced triggers from millions of devices waking up simultaneously due to commercials. Before joining Amazon, Himanshu worked at de Shaw as a Senior Member Technical and Member Technical in the Compliance development team. His projects included Compliance Platform, insider trading surveillance, anti-money laundering check, best execution, restriction reporting for IAM trading, Position Limits monitoring, and swap reporting – Dodd-Frank act. Himanshu holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science from IIT. His technical skills include software engineering, ML, SRE, and test. With 11.87 years of relevant experience, Himanshu is a highly experienced software engineer with a proven track record of delivering complex projects. He is currently co-founder at Stealth Mode Fintech and is hiring for SDE roles.