About

Elvis D. is an accomplished technology leader with over 17 years of experience in building high-performing teams across technology. He is a previous long-term Amazonian and ex-CTO, known for his ability to hire and develop team members and ensure that businesses make the best decisions possible. Elvis is currently taking a sabbatical with family and friends for his favorite part of the year, working in stealth mode. Elvis has a proven track record in solving problems and getting things done. He enables others to do their best by giving them the tools they need and removes his team as a bottleneck to others. Elvis has hired and developed the talents of his team so that they surpass him and accomplish things they didn’t think they could. He has hired a team of ~30 across employees and contractors. His org included software development, data engineering, analytics engineering, data science, infrastructure engineering, and technical project managers. Elvis's key responsibilities included hiring and developing high-performing technology leaders who deliver world-class technology products in every technology vertical inside his organization. He envisions and implements a world-class technology architecture that delivers on business needs. Elvis ensures the business invests in mundane but critical areas of security, user management, and automation that would otherwise be low business value but "time-sucking" manual processes. He implements business processes necessary to unlock the full value of technology products, including robust documentation, a culture of continuous improvement, and agile development. Elvis negotiates with other senior leadership (e.g., Vice Presidents, CxOs) on how technology will support their needs, move quickly to build technology products, and maintain a healthy level of technology debt. He ensures employee satisfaction of technology team members by creating a culture of empowerment, pushing responsibility down, providing opportunities for learning and career development, and healthy work-life balance that includes ensuring unybrands is a fun place to work at. Elvis has also worked as a Senior Manager, Science Product Innovation - Alexa Shopping at Amazon. He is a single threaded leader using data science to better understand how they can fulfill Alexa Shopping's aspirations to be the anywhere shopping AI with a focus on customers who are less engaged with Amazon. Elvis leads a new team to help him deep dive into the data and research their needs to identify specific marketing programs, features, and product ideas that will better serve these customers. He influences the most senior leaders in Alexa Shopping via PRFAQs to steer marketing and feature roadmaps and advocates for these customers at the highest levels