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10 Amazon engineering leaders
These ten Amazon engineering leaders, including Amazon's CTO, lead technology and software development at Amazon, AWS and units such as Amazon Business, Amazon Canada, AbeBooks and Prime Video. Readers can learn how Amazon organizes large engineering teams, sets technology strategy and runs software development across its businesses.
Professionals to explore
01—10Amanda Hodgson Doerr
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Software Development - Core Shopping · Amazon
Vice President, Software Development - Core Shopping at Amazon since 2019, and former Director, Software Development - Supply Chain Optimization Technologies at Amazon (2016–2019). Her profile says she leads a 550-person global organization responsible for engineering, science, operations and product.
Andrew Finall
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technology Officer · AbeBooks, an Amazon company
Chief Technology Officer at AbeBooks, an Amazon company since 2021; former Head of Sustainability Technology (2018–2021) and Head of Core Engineering, Enterprise Ad Products (2015–2018) at Amazon. His profile describes him as the single-threaded leader owning the definition and execution of the technology strategy and vision across AbeBooks.
Arun Tirumale
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technology Officer, Amazon Canada, Amazon · Amazon
Chief Technology Officer, Amazon Canada since 2022; his other Amazon roles include Head of Supply Chain Technology and Integration, AmazonDx Health (2020–2022) and Head of Product and Technology, Amazon Worldwide Private Brands (2019–2020). He says that as CTO of Amazon Canada he leads initiatives across retail, supply chain, e-commerce, operations and AI and ML technologies.
Doug Gray
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technology Officer · Amazon Business
Chief Technology Officer at Amazon Business and VP of Technology at Amazon, both since 2021; former General Manager and Senior Vice President, Engineering (2019–2021), Senior Vice President, Engineering (2014–2019) and Vice President, Engineering (2008–2013) at Indeed. His profile places the Amazon Business role in Engineering and Technical at the C-Level.
Girish Bajaj
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios Technology · Amazon
Vice President of Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios Technology at Amazon since 2017, and former Director, Software Engineering (Amazon Video) at Amazon (2014–2017). His profile describes him as VP of Software Engineering for Prime Video, driving the strategic vision and execution to use Generative AI across the video business.
Jaideep Ravela
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Technology · Amazon
Vice President of Technology at Amazon since 2025; his Amazon roles also include Technical Advisor (2024–2025), Vice President of Software Development (2022–2024) and Director, Software Development (2017–2022 and 2010–2017). His profile places the current role in Engineering and Technical at the President/Vice President level.
Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Technology, AWS · Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Vice President of Technology, AWS at Amazon Web Services (AWS) since 2016, and former General Manager, Amazon S3 (2013–2015) and General Manager, AWS Monitoring and Workflow Services (2010–2013) at AWS. Her profile describes her as AWS Vice President of Technology (Data and Analytics) and as Vice President (Engineering) and General Manager for Amazon S3.
Pier Paolo Cirillo
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Technology · Amazon
Vice President, Technology at Amazon since 2024, and former Director, Software Development at Amazon (2021–2024). He was also Global VP Software Engineering at Solera Holdings, LLC. (2017–2021) and Global CTO and Spain Country Manager - Lumata at Evolving Systems (2014–2016).
Werner Vogels
LinkedInExperience: VP & CTO · Amazon
VP & CTO at Amazon since 2005, and former Director of Systems Research at Amazon (2004–2005) and Research Scientist at Cornell University (1994–2004). His profile describes him as Amazon's chief technology officer and vice president in charge of driving technology innovation within the company, with broad internal and external responsibilities.
William Bowes
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering · Amazon
Vice President of Engineering at Amazon since 2020, and former Head of World Wide Engineering & Design (2016–2020) and Director Innovation & Design Engineering (2015–2016) at Amazon. He was also Vice President, Advanced Engineering, Corporate R&D at Magna International (2014–2015), and his profile describes executive leadership at both Amazon and in the automotive industry.
Choose the right perspective
Pick a leader whose business unit matches your question, since retail, cloud, devices and media engineering face different constraints. For company-wide technology strategy, favor a CTO or VP of Technology; for team structure and delivery, a software development VP may be closer to day-to-day practice.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does Amazon decide when a team should own its own service instead of using a shared platform?
- 02What mechanisms keep large Amazon engineering organizations shipping quickly?
- 03How do Amazon engineering leaders decide where to apply generative AI in existing products?
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