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# Akshay Sumant on Tal

## Headline

Sr\. Engineering Manager @ Amazon \(Site Head\) Identity Services

## About

With over a decade of software development experience at Amazon, I lead teams that build and operate identity solutions for personalization and multiple tier\-1 services for managing PII data and identity verification\. These solutions serve millions of customers worldwide and enable them to access various Amazon products and services with ease and security\. My core competencies include technical product management, feature prioritization, web services, distributed systems and scalability\. I also have a certificate in software product management from the University of Washington\. I am passionate about creating innovative and customer\-centric solutions that enhance the user experience and solve complex problems\. As a Software Development Manager, I empower my teams to deliver high\-quality software products that meet the business and technical requirements of Amazon\.

## Location

Pune Division

## AI stack

codex

cursor

claudecode

## Work experience

Senior Software Engineering Manager at Amazon, Apr 2026 \- Present · 5 mos, Pune

Software Development Manager, Identity Services at Amazon, Oct 2021 \- Apr 2026 · 4 yrs 7 mos, Building Identity solutions for personalization and multiple tier\-1 services for managing PII data and Identity verification\.

Software Development Manager, Alexa Devices at Amazon, Jun 2020 \- Oct 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India, Building Setup and Out\-of\-box experience for Alexa devices

Software Development Manager, Amazon EKS at Amazon Web Services \(AWS\), Feb 2019 \- Jun 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos, Greater Seattle Area

Software Development Manager, IAM at Amazon Web Services \(AWS\), Mar 2017 \- Jan 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos, Seattle, Washington

Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services \(AWS\), Oct 2013 \- Mar 2017 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Greater Seattle Area, Identity and access management\. aws\.amazon\.com/iam Building scalable, fault tolerant multi\-tier software that is a backbone of authentication authorization for AWS\.

Software Development Engineer Intern at Amazon\.com, May 2011 \- Jul 2011 · 3 mos, Greater Seattle Area, Worked with Transaction Risk Management group\. I worked specifically on seller feedback operations responsible for feeding in high quality and high quantity of feedback data for third party sellers at Amazon\. Technologies include Perl, Mason, Java

Advanced Programmer \(Intern\) at Massively Parallel Technologies, Nov 2010 \- Apr 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos, Worked on Blue Cheetah App Ecosystem\. An application to facilitate HPC for scientists and especially for non\-programmers\. This system provides easy code generation features\. Development on Java, C\+\+, Adobe Flex\.

Software Engineer at Motorola, Mar 2010 \- Aug 2010 · 6 mos, Worked on Motorola Droid for linux OS bring up\. Especially on power management and battery components\.

## Education

Certificate in Software Product Management, Computer Science, University of Washington

Masters, Computer Science, Arizona State University

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