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10 Amazon software engineers
These ten Amazon software engineers have held software engineer roles at Amazon and AWS, on work that includes payments security, billing, Alexa AI, the Seller Assistant, Amazon One, GuardDuty, SageMaker and WorkMail. A reader can learn what software engineer work at Amazon involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Alexander Didenko
LinkedInExperience: Senior Software Engineer · Amazon
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon in the Seattle area since 2024; a highlight says Alexander Didenko leads architecture and cross-team execution for a next-generation billing platform at Amazon. They were a Senior Software Engineer at Capital One (2023–2024) and a Lead Software Engineer at Rockpile Solutions (2019–2023).
Ayush Jain
LinkedInExperience: Senior Software Engineer · Amazon
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon in Seattle since 2025, with Amazon Software Development Engineer roles from 2021 to 2025. A highlight says Ayush Jain leads the backend architecture and systems for Seller Assistant (Project Amelia), Amazon's agentic AI assistant for sellers, with work spanning LLM-based agent orchestration.
Joseph S.
LinkedInExperience: Senior Software Engineer · Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services in Seattle since 2020, with AWS Software Development Engineer roles from 2015 to 2020. A highlight says Joseph S. works on AWS SageMaker, the service that helps data scientists build, train and deploy machine learning models.
Leandro Lameiro
LinkedInExperience: Senior Software Engineer · Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services in Arlington, Virginia, with AWS rows since 2016; a highlight says Leandro Lameiro leads initiatives within Amazon WorkMail. They were a Software Teamlead at Civolution (2012–2016) and a Senior Software Engineer at BICS (2010–2012).
Naman Jain
LinkedInExperience: Senior Software Development Engineer · Amazon
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon in Seattle since 2022, with Amazon Software Development Engineer roles from 2016 to 2022. A highlight says Naman Jain is a technical lead in Amazon's Payments Security organization, and the headline names technical leadership for global security platforms.
Ninad Sapate
LinkedInExperience: Senior Software Engineer - Alexa AI · Amazon
Senior Software Engineer - Alexa AI at Amazon in Seattle since 2024, with Amazon roles as Senior Software Engineer - AWS (2021–2024) and SDE II - AWS (2019–2021). Ninad Sapate was a Software Engineer at Viasat in 2018 and a Software Developer at SAP (2015–2017), and can compare work on AWS and on Alexa.
Samaan G.
LinkedInExperience: Senior Software Development Engineer · Amazon
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon in Seattle since 2020; a highlight says Samaan G. has worked as a lead engineer on Amazon One's research development and infrastructure team, and enjoys full stack development, Rust, and building mobile and backend applications.
Santosh Kannan
LinkedInExperience: Senior Software Engineer · Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services in Seattle since 2026, with AWS Software Development Engineer roles from 2021 to 2026. A highlight says Santosh Kannan leads the architecture and delivery of the next generation of Amazon GuardDuty. They were a Software Engineer at ZS (2017–2019).
Sushumna Khandelwal
LinkedInExperience: Senior Software Engineer · Amazon
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon in the Seattle area since 2025, with Amazon Software Development Engineer roles from 2021 to 2025. A highlight says Sushumna Khandelwal designs and scales Tier-1 member growth platforms, experimentation frameworks and content delivery systems that power customer experiences at Amazon.
Tim McClelland
LinkedInExperience: Senior Software Engineer · Amazon
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon in Perth, Australia, with Senior Software Engineer rows at Amazon since 2021 and Software Engineer II rows from 2016 to 2021. A highlight names AWS, Customer Engineering for the current role held by Tim McClelland and lists it under the Engineering and Technical department at Senior level.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do Amazon software engineers take a service from design document to production?
- 02What does operating a heavily used service look like for an Amazon software engineer, including on-call?
- 03How do software engineers at Amazon work with product managers and other teams that depend on their services?
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