Dheeraj Mehta

Senior Engineering Manager at SoFi

Dheeraj Mehta is a Science & Engineering Manager at Amazon Music, where he has been responsible for leading a team of data scientists, applied scientists, and engineers. His role involves driving improvements in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) systems for Amazon Music, contributing to major voice-related launches such as DJ Mode, Spotlight, and Versions. He has also implemented multiple continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) services using technologies like Fargate, ECS, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and Redis, handling significant traffic loads of 800-1200 transactions per second (TPS) during his tenure from November 2019 to November 2021.

Prior to his role at Amazon Music, Dheeraj worked in various capacities at Amazon, including as a Software Development Manager for Alexa Speech Recognition and as a Senior Technical Program Manager. His earlier experience includes a significant tenure at Microsoft, where he contributed to product management and software engineering initiatives.

Dheeraj holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.

Experience

Senior Engineering Manager at SoFi

Science & Engineering Manager at Amazon Music (Nov 2019 - Nov 2021); Software Development Manager at Alexa Speech Recognition (Jan 2019 - Nov 2019); Senior Technical Program Manager for Alexa Speech Recognition (Nov 2017 - Jan 2019); Product Manager at Microsoft (Nov 2012 - Nov 2017); Software Engineer at Microsoft (Jul 2010 - Nov 2012); Software Engineer at Accenture (Jun 2006 - Jun 2008)

Education

Masters of Computer Science, Multimedia & Creative Technologies from University of Southern California (2008 - 2010); Bachelors of Technology, Computer Science from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (2002 - 2006)