Kanika Arora

Kanika Arora is a Software Development Manager at Amazon in London, where she leads an engineering team building the Retail Catalog Pipeline—the systems behind the product detail page for every item on Amazon. Over the past year, her team has integrated AI into their everyday engineering practices, building and shipping internal tooling that has since been adopted by a dozen other engineering teams across the organization. Before Amazon, Kanika worked at Meta on Instagram Shopping and Reels, and spent several years as a Computer Scientist at Adobe, where she built ML-powered features for Acrobat. She studied Computer Science at the University of Southern California. Outside of work, Kanika hosts Work, Life & Zen, a podcast exploring how to build calmer, more intentional careers. She is passionate about the intersection of technology, engineering leadership, and wellbeing—and about helping people do exceptional work without burning out.