# Shankar M

**Enterprise Architect** — Los Angeles, CA, United States

> Enterprise software architect driving digital transformation at global luxury retail, with 10+ years of experience building scalable systems and leading large engineering organizations at Amazon and beyond.

Career Archetype: **Junction Artisan** (HE-MX) — One of the first Junction Artisans on Saywise

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/meetshankar

## Experience

### Enterprise Architect, Saks Global, Saks Global (2022-01 – present)
Remote · Leading digital transformation across merchandising, marketing, commerce, payments, order management, and infrastructure for a global luxury retailer. Architected next-generation Product Detail Pages and led payments modernization with a new PLCC provider. Migrated order flows to scalable service-oriented architectures while guiding architectural decisions for 400+ engineers.

### Independent Consultant, Consulted for multiple firms, including one of the Big Three Management Consultancies (2017-01 – 2018-01)

### Product and Tech Lead, Indirect Supply Chain, Amazon (2015-07 – 2016-06)
Greater Los Angeles Area · Owned Tier-1 services for Amazon Go, refactoring production systems to reduce monthly operational issues from 40+ to 2. Built KPI aggregation and reporting services to track system health and performance.

### Software Engineer, Qualcomm (2013-10 – 2015-06)
Greater San Diego Area · Implemented middleware features for NFC software stacks on commercial Android and prototype Windows devices, enabling near-field communication capabilities across multiple platforms.

### Software Engineer, Pendrell Technologies (2012-06 – 2013-09)
Greater Los Angeles Area · Developed Python scripts to extract and analyze structured and unstructured patent data, generating business insights from large datasets.

### Research Intern, AT&T Labs, Inc. (2011-05 – 2011-07)
New Jersey · Given a pair of stereo-images, obtained an implicit 3D representation of the scene, and used this representation to synthesize the image visible from a virtual viewpoint

### Research Assistant, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2009-01 – 2010-01)
Madrid Area, Spain · GPU-acceleration for algorithms in graphics: Implemented a recursive subdivision algorithm on CUDA, a general-purpose GPU architecture.

## Education

### MS in Computer Science, UCLA (2013-09 – 2015-06)

### B-Tech in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (2008-09 – 2012-06)

## Projects

### Cataract Surgery Software
Wrote software for the Jules Stein Center (UCLA) to prevent rupture of lens sac during Cataract Surgery The software tracks the operating tool-tip across frames and detects the formation of folds near the tool tip, which indicates the possibility of rupture

### Principal Component Analysis for Human Faces
Machine Learning

### Human Pose Estimation from images
Created a framework for pose estimation using a combination of face and skin-color detection Used a Mixture of Gaussians model for skin, color histograms to ensure invariance to illumination and belief propagation for the final pose estimation

### Tracking deformable objects using Particle Filters
Computer Vision (Team)

### Implementation of a simple ray-tracer
Computer Graphics

### Improve the visualization of workflows in LONI pipeline software
Software engineering (Team)

### Introduction to Optimization, Bi-linear Image Interpolation
CAD Lab

### Modeling a primitive two-resource market using Animats
Animats Modeling

### Modeling of supervised and unsupervised learning
Biological Vision

## Skills

Enterprise Architecture, Digital Transformation, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), C, C++, Java, Matlab, Algorithms, Python, SQL, HTML, Data Structures, Machine Learning, Linux, Programming, MySQL, Perl, Unix, Software Engineering, OpenGL, Android, Kotlin, JavaScript, React, AWS Lambda, AWS Kinesis, AWS DynamoDB, AWS Redshift, AWS SNS/SQS, AWS CDK, Microservices, Event-driven systems, Cloud Architecture, Full-stack development, System Design, Architecture, Leadership

## Credentials

- **Indian National Talent Search Exam (NTSE) Scholar** — Jan 2003
- **Gold medal in Computer Science** — University of New South Wales (issued 2002-01)
- **AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate** — Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- **Objective and subjective evaluation of static 3D mesh compression Signal Processing: Image Communication, Volume 28, Issue 2** (issued 2013-02)

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