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    Ankit Sirmorya

    Ankit Sirmorya

    Senior Manager, Data & ML Engineering | Zillow, Ex-Amazon | Startup Mentor Chicago Booth & IIT Bombay | Einstein Visa(EB1A) Recipient in Applied AI

    Software Engineer Seattle University of Florida...
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    Experience
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    75 Open Positions · $0k–$400k/yr
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    ML Engineering Manager 2016 - Present (over 10 years)
    - Lead the Amazon Customer Interests team (in Amazon Core Personalization org) to build and enable experiences that inspire customers to explore their interests by enabling... more discovery of content related to these interests
    - Developed team's structure, vision, software and strategy generating over $75M
    - Managed team performance and represent my team at leadership reviews related to team's yearly roadmaps, business metrics, and performance ratings
    - Recruited 10+ software engineers and applied scientists within 2 weeks using my LinkedIn network, via a pipeline of 100+ candidates
    - Spearheaded the initiation of Scrum-of-Scrums, risk management, & developer training in addition to proposing & implementing the use of Gantt charts resulting in an overall 40% reduction in workflow friction
    - Designed & built applications to personalize the notifications and hints sent to headless and headed Alexa devices (50 million+)
    - Created techniques (Amazon filed a patent) for improving accuracy of reinforcement learning experiments on Amazon product pages that reduced the number of failed experiments by 40% and saved 60% in redundant manual effort
    - Developed, standardized, & delivered training maximizing error analysis tools effectiveness reducing error escalations by 38%.
    - Conducted interviews (150+) and evaluated work artifacts for promotion of software engineers to senior software engineers
    Stealth AI Startup (Restaurant Tech)
    Stealth AI Startup (Restaurant Tech)
    Founder
    Loan Reserve
    Loan Reserve
    Co-Founder/ CTO 2010 - 2012 (almost 2 years)
    - Led a team of engineers and program managers to build a SaaS solution for processing loans for small banks in India
    - Created partnership with 20+ banks in India by negotiating... more partnership agreements with them
    - Designed and Implemented the product using emerging technologies at the time (Angular JS, GWT, AWS).
    Founder
    Stealth AI Startup (Restaurant Tech)
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    Loan Reserve, Amazon
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    About
    Achievements

    Awards
    ● Outstanding Leadership Award by Internet Conference 2.0 USA (prestigious annual tech conference)
    ● Global Achievers’ Award by India Achievers’ Forum (apex non-profit organization)
    ● 40 Under 40 Data Scientists award by AnalyticsIndiaMagazine (2M+ monthly visitors)
    ● AI Professional of the Year Finalist by Computing (renowned UK’s tech magazine)
    Recognition
    ● British Computer Society (BCS) Fellow
    ● Asia Pacific Artificial Intelligence Member
    ● Global AI Hub Thought Leader

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    Skills
    Machine Learning AWS AWS SageMaker Software Development Angel Investing Product Strategy
    Locations
    San Francisco South San Francisco
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