New York, NY | inantainwala@gmail.com | (919) 695-6234
Professional Highlights
Senior Software Development Engineer2023 – Present
Amazon Q Business
GenAI Launch: Led a tiger team of 8 engineers to build a novel LLM accuracy test framework, crucial for launching Amazon Q Business at re:Invent 2023.
Search Innovation: Spearheaded "Recursive Retrieval," improving answer correctness by 6-10% and reducing time-to-production for passage-stitching by 85%.
Leadership: Formed and scaled the "Accuracy" team, aligning cross-functional departments to drive service quality.
Software Development Engineer II2020 – 2023
Amazon Kendra
Distributed Systems: Built a Consistent Hashing algorithm with virtual nodes, unlocking order-of-magnitude scalability for multi-tenant customers.
Global Expansion: Led cross-functional efforts to expand natural language capabilities to 7 new global languages.
Software Development Engineer I2017 – 2020
Amazon Prime Pantry
High Availability: Built a Tier-1 filtering service handling 4M requests/minute with 99.999% availability.
Technical Proficiencies
Java & Python
AWS Ecosystem
Distributed Systems
LLMs & GenAI
CI/CD & Engineering Ops
ML Infrastructure
Education
Duke University | B.S. Computer Science & B.S.E Electrical and Computer Engineering