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AWS SDM · Product intelligence · Engineering leadership · Distributed systems

Praveen Kotteswaran

Engineering leader building AI-powered product intelligence, developer productivity, and distributed decision systems. Software Development Manager at AWS with 15+ years across Amazon and AWS, leading teams that turn customer, product, and operational signals into trusted platforms for better decisions and faster execution.

AI Platforms
Leadership
Praveen AWS SDM
Product Intelligence
Distributed Systems

Operating Thesis

A people leader with the technical depth to make hard platform calls.

The thread across my career is helping large engineering organizations replace fragmented, expert-driven workflows with durable platforms. I lead teams, planning, architecture, operational readiness, hiring, performance coaching, and cross-org execution while staying close to the product and system decisions that determine whether a platform actually earns trust.

Leadership Operating Scope

The management work behind the platform work.

Org Planning

Roadmaps, ownership models, and readiness.

Annual planning inputs, roadmap prioritization, ownership models, delivery mechanisms, and operational readiness across multiple engineering workstreams.

Resourcing & Hiring

Team growth with promotion outcomes.

Hiring plans, headcount and resource allocation inputs, 20+ engineering hires, and 8+ engineer promotions supported.

Team Leadership

Direct team plus broader workstreams.

Direct team leadership up to 12 engineers, with broader execution leadership across 40+ engineers and manager-led workstreams.

Execution System

Cross-functional delivery cadence.

Operating rhythm across product, UX, TPM, data, QA, finance/accounting, compliance, operations, and distributed U.S./India teams.

Selected Accomplishments

A compact view of scale, scope, and operating ownership.

Leadership Scope 12 + 40+

Direct team leadership up to 12 engineers plus broader manager-led workstream execution.

Platform Reach 500+ teams

Product-decision workflows across hundreds of Console surfaces and service-team use cases.

AI Adoption 5K MAU

Natural-language analytics over governed tools, with strong success and latency outcomes.

Data Scale 18TB/day

Roughly 500M daily interaction events converted into product intelligence signals.

Feedback Speed Weeks to hours

Template-based feedback workflows reduced setup time for targeted collection and reporting.

Launch Readiness 50%

Reduced complex digital launch validation from roughly 6 weeks to 3 weeks through automation.

Relevant Leadership Areas

The domains where my background is most useful.

AI platforms
Product intelligence
Developer productivity
Distributed systems and telemetry platforms

Technical Range

Hands-on across the stack when the mission needs it.

AWS Engineering management Annual planning Headcount allocation Product intelligence Telemetry platforms Amazon Bedrock MCP tools Distributed systems Data lakes OpenSearch DynamoDB Digital commerce Engineering productivity Operational excellence

Contact

For senior engineering, AI product, or platform leadership conversations.

The best conversations are with teams building consequential products where engineering leadership, AI leverage, customer trust, platform quality, and shipping speed all matter at once.

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