About

Lucky Wankhede is a seasoned Technical Program Manager at Amazon with over 13 years of relevant experience in the field of software engineering. He has a strong background in building internet-scale cloud services and incubating new products. Lucky is responsible for leading the requirements disambiguation from business, design, and delivery of the web service to handle the load of 7+ Billion requests. He has also built a vital vendor payments platform with elastic search stack, which currently serves multiple internal engineering teams and external vendors platform. Prior to joining Amazon, Lucky worked as a Software Development Engineer at Microsoft, where he worked on products used by millions of users such as Office365, Bing, BingAds, Fraud detection in Ads and education-related investments and efforts in India. He has a keen eye on the front end and great user experience, and can quickly hack up a new solution and build POCs, which can showcase the strength of products and later on build on it as a full-fledged scalable product. Lucky is also a Co-Founder of MindIQ, which was ranked in the top 25 startups worldwide at GMIC Bangalore Top 25. He has mentored and led teams of Engineers, Interns, and vendor developers and successfully delivered V1 products. Lucky's specialties include scaling the web/micro-services to handle billions of requests, front-end development, cloud computing, search engine, project management, incubation and V1 products, and open source technologies. Lucky holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Pune University and a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Chemistry from BAMU. His technical skillset includes expertise in Frontend, Web, Software Engineering, AI, Search, Elastic Search, and Microservices. Lucky is passionate about working on customer-focused products and building impactful businesses.