vm.Vasanth Muralidharan
Engineering & leadership

Engineering experience / 2012 — present

Leadership in practice.

Fourteen years of building products and organizations, including 4+ years leading through engineering managers.

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Managing managers
4+ years
Amazon engineering organization
30 people
Alexa Routines daily users · 2 years
10M → 40M
Chapter 04

SoFi

Feb 2025 — Present

Seattle, WA
SoFi Tech Solutions

Senior Manager, Software Development

Own the enterprise applications and UI design system that power SoFi’s customer service, fraud, disputes, back-office operations, and finance workflows. My remit spans technical direction, application delivery, and production operations across a distributed engineering organization.

  • Led the transition from legacy PHP applications to React and Next.js, alongside ownership of the shared UI design system for SoFi Tech Solutions.
  • Co-own technology strategy and multi-year roadmaps with Product and Business, including capacity planning, budgets, and hiring priorities.
  • Drove AI adoption through tooling pilots and automated reviews, tests, and release workflows, delivering approximately 15% improvement in engineering productivity.
  • Guide teams through production incidents as an incident commander. Automated SLA measurement and reporting for web applications and led incident management and observability platform selection.
  • Lead engineering across the US, Mexico, and South America. Introduced and ran company-wide technical mentorship and employee rotation programs to develop talent across team boundaries.
Enterprise applicationsUI design systemsMulti-geo leadership
Chapter 03

Amazon

Sep 2018 — Feb 2025

Seattle, WA
Alexa Routines

Manager III, Software Development

Owned Alexa Routines and the distributed orchestration platforms behind everyday automation on Alexa devices, connecting product development with systems built to serve millions of daily users.

  • Co-invented a US patent for detecting the completion of AI-driven automated actions on Alexa devices.
  • Led engineering as Alexa Routines grew from 10 million to 40 million daily active users in two years, through new features and product adoption initiatives.
  • Owned orchestration systems operating at approximately 10,000 queries per second.
  • Led a 30-person engineering organization across the US and India as a manager of managers, with responsibility for delivery across teams.
  • Served as an Amazon Bar Raiser, conducting more than 250 interviews and coaching interviewers to strengthen hiring practices.
Consumer technologyDistributed systemsVoice & automation
Chapter 02

Amazon

2015 — 2018

Seattle, WA & Bangalore, India
Delivery Experience

Software Development Engineer

Served as technical lead for Amazon’s two-hour delivery launch in the US and India, building the logistics and warehouse integrations required to take the service from concept to launch.

  • Built the Amazon Buyback exchange platform and shipped delivery feedback and delivery speed-based search filters.
  • Improved customer retention by approximately 10% through Buyback, and customer satisfaction by approximately 15% through cross-functional logistics programs.
  • Led delivery programs spanning Sub-Same-Day, regionalized delivery, and Amazon Fresh scheduling, improving delivery speed by approximately 30%.
Zero to oneLogisticsProduct engineering
Chapter 01

Honeywell

2012 — 2015

Bangalore, India
Flight Management Systems

Software Engineer

Developed flight management avionics software for the Boeing 787-9, building a foundation in systems engineering for safety-critical environments.

  • Implemented I/O interfaces and the Flight Planning Module in C++.
AerospaceC++Flight planning
05

Independent AI products

Independent projects
Project 01

Talk to the Site!

Chrome extension · Archived

Built and published an AI browser extension that let users converse with websites through pluggable language models and AWS Bedrock. Reached hundreds of daily active users before retiring the product after Chrome introduced native Ask Gemini capabilities.

Conversational AIBrowser tools
Project 02

Immortal Stories Retold

Automated storytelling podcast

Built and operated a fully automated AI storytelling pipeline, from story generation through podcast publication on Spotify, YouTube, and Amazon Music.

Generative AICreative automation