Shantha Thimmanna is a Senior Data Engineer at Amazon with over 15 years of experience in data engineering roles, encompassing both management and individual contributor capacities. They have successfully led a team of over 10 engineers while working on various projects in the technical, retail, and marketing domains. Shantha has a solid academic background with a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University. Previously, they held a position as an Associate Manager at Accenture, where they specialized in data modeling for data warehousing and business intelligence applications.