Steven Spielberg P

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Hi! I am Steven Spielberg P, I plan & build things that move the needle at scale.


I am a Principal Product Manager at Providence Health & Services, leading the development of a scalable GenAI platform that optimizes complex healthcare workflows and improves patient outcomes. At Amazon I wore multiple hats across Research Scientist, Economist, Software Engineer, and Product Lead roles across AWS, Alexa, and Retail. I shipped production systems that powered some of the world’s largest ML models — from Alexa’s Automatic Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding stack to reinforcement-learning-based pricing that was projected to drive hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue and free cash flow. I also helped build the ML engine behind Amazon’s Private Brands product innovation platform (automatically discovering, designing, and iterating new Amazon Basics products at scale) and led a petabyte-scale data system for massive datasets that now underpins AWS billing at planet scale.


Before big tech, I was one of the first researchers to bring deep reinforcement learning to process control (UBC, 3 papers published). My earlier work spanned mathematical modeling of solar stills (advanced differential equations + C implementations), offset-free model predictive control (published in I&ECR), Model Predictive Control of Industrial systems, and large-scale systems at Amazon where I moved from building production features to shaping multi-hundred-million-dollar economic systems. My obsession has always been the same: using RL, control theory, NLP, and hybrid first principle mathematical modeling of complex dynamic system to solve hard, high-stakes problems in real noisy production settings.


  • Providence Health & Services

    Principal Product Manager

    1. Conversational Navigation Platform - a Gen AI - LLM platform to accelerate Healthcare workflows

    2. Grace - A GenAI Multimodal conversational chatbot for Health systems

    3. DevOps, MLOps & LLMOps Product lead for AI & ML initiatives

  • Amazon Web Services - Commerce Platform

    I was the lead Product Manager for

    1. AWS FactStore - a data based version control system for big data & ML models.

    2. AWS Data Platform (ETL) that supports Analytics use cases across AWS.

  • Amazon Ads Economics Technology

    I was the Lead Product Manager for Amazon Ads - an ML & RL based Pricing system that processes search queries in Amazon.com to decide showing advertisement or organic contents.

  • Amazon Alexa

    I managed ML infrastrucutre initiaves for Alexa Communications products. 1. Alexa Photo Sharing. 2. Alexa EE/ Vodafone integration 3. Alexa Emergency Helpline 4. Alexa, Send a Hug 5. Alexa Music Sharing

  • Amazon House Hold Organization

    I helped built Alexa's Natural Language Understanding ML model, the then one of the largest language models (LLM) in the world along with systems like Alexa for email.

  • Synopsys (Previously Black Duck Software)

    I developed & launched a new product that uses a custom trained NLP Language models to mimic lawyers decision on legal documents.

  • University of British Columbia

    I was the one of the first to combine Deep RL advances with process control with 5+ publications, changing the strategic direction of our lab.

    Fun Fact: I was named after the Director Steven Spielberg!


    I am also a creative person and web designing (using HTML, CSS, JS) help me explore my artistic abilities from scratch and this website is a testimony to that! Also, I got to have schooling in different parts of the world (7+ different schools) chasing after many meritorious scholarships for my high academic standings (ASK scholarship for my highschool, University Endowment Scholarship for my UG, Mitacs Scholarship for my PG) to successfully migitate the challenges in my family and it is my moms tenacity and endurance that she supported me to pursue my dreams.