Ainesh Sootha

i currently work at amazon ads, where i'm building a globally distributed LLM inference platform and researching novel inference-optimization techniques.

previously: performance & serving infra for open-source LLMs at aws bedrock, and auth orchestration at amazon just walk out.

before that, i studied computer engineering and philosophy at purdue.

i'm currently based in toronto, on.

email · github · linkedin · résumé

experience

  • Amazon — Ads AI software engineer (ml) · new york, ny / toronto, on · dec 2025–present distributed LLM inference platform on kubernetes
  • AWS — Bedrock AI software engineer (ml) · seattle, wa · apr 2024–dec 2025 perf. for open-source LLMs; built Custom Model Import (3,000+ endpoints)
  • Amazon — Just Walk Out software engineer · seattle, wa · jul 2023–apr 2024 low-latency auth & authorization orchestration
  • Amazon — Just Walk Out swe intern · seattle, wa · may–aug 2022 customer identification & tracking
  • State Street Corp swe intern · new york, ny · jun–aug 2021 BestX - TCA

projects