About

Shrikant Khadilkar is a highly experienced Manager III, Software Dev at Amazon with over 17 years of relevant experience in the industry. He is currently managing a team of rock star engineers at Alexa Skills, responsible for building a data processing platform that operates at a huge scale of over 5000 records per second. Shrikant and his team use the latest and cutting-edge technologies available on AWS to build and scale their platform, including EMR, Hadoop, Lambdas, Machine Learning, Serverless, Streaming, React, and Node. Shrikant's role is critical in upholding customer trust in Alexa skills and ensuring that Amazon customers have a safe and enjoyable experience with Alexa Skills. Prior to his current role, Shrikant has played multiple roles at Amazon, including Quality Assurance Engineer-2 for Subscribe with Amazon, Alexa Skills, and Quality Assurance Engineer-3 for Alexa Skills. He has also served as a Technical Program Manager-3 and Software Development Manager-3 for Alexa Skills. Before joining Amazon, Shrikant worked as a Senior Software Test Analyst at Overstock.com, where he embraced failure and tried something new. He has also worked as a QAE 2 at Amazon, where he helped launch Small Business Software Solutions, wrote test automation for critical initiatives, tested existing and new purchase flows, wrote integration tests for backend services, and mentored and helped team members design and write test automation. Shrikant has a strong educational background, having completed a Post Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: Business Applications from the University of Texas, and a B.E in Information Technology from the University of Pune. He is well-versed in a range of technologies, including ML, QA, AWS, test, Hadoop, Software Engineer, SDET, Integration, and Backend. Overall, Shrikant is a highly skilled and experienced professional with a proven track record of success in the industry. He is passionate about building and scaling data processing platforms, upholding customer trust, and mentoring and helping team members design and write test automation.