About

Pavankumar Patwari is an experienced Engineering Leader at Amazon, with over 18 years of experience in the software industry. He is a passionate technologist who thrives on solving complex engineering problems and working with engineering minds and thinkers to deliver world-class solutions that enhance the lives of customers, partners, stakeholders, and the engineering community. Pavankumar's expertise lies in software, people, problem-solving, tech-leadership, team-building, motivation, culture, and collaboration. He believes that people management is a horizontal perspective that blends in every aspect of day-to-day software engineering life. Pavankumar is a coach most of the time and a pacesetter whenever needed. He builds trust with his folks while motivating them with a definitive purpose and focused vision, which has been instrumental in accomplishing all the engineering complexities and overcoming people and tech challenges. Human element is at the heart of all activities in development, design, leadership, planning, execution, and overall engineering. Pavankumar believes that leadership and management intersect across people, technology, products, and services. He operates with this DNA and tries to lead, manage, and operate in this essence. Pavankumar has worked with several companies in the past, including Twilio and VMware, where he managed software engineering teams responsible for data engineering, analytics/ML platform, cloud resource provisioning portals, real-time dashboard portals, and collaboration tools services. He designed and built a next-gen data platform to stream structured and unstructured data, applied data correlation, basic ML models, and reduced MTTR, MTTI for R&D services. Pavankumar has also managed 3rd party tools vendor management and collaborated with technical account managers and finance teams for license and cost management. Pavankumar holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Technology from SDM College of Engg & Tech, Dharwad. He also has a Pre-University College (PUC1 | PUC2) degree in Physics, Chemistry, Math, and Biology from JSS Banashankari Arts, Commerce & S.K.Gubbi Science College, Vidyagiri Dharwad, and a Matriculation (Grade 7 to 10) degree from K E Boards High School Dharward and Kindergarten - Grade 6 degree from St Josephs High School Dharwad. Pavankumar's tech stack includes frontend, backend, ML, senior software engineer, data engineering, search,