Abhinav Simha is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon, specializing in Alexa Automotive since 2023. Previously, from 2019 to 2021, they worked at PayPal as a Software Engineer, where they played a key role in developing critical technologies, including the first-ever production-grade Apache Kafka Streams microsystem and a Unified Data GraphQL API. Abhinav also gained experience as a Data Mining and Analysis Intern at Stanford University, where they fostered interests in machine learning and IoT. They hold a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego.