Samyukta Sethuraman is a Senior Research Scientist at Amazon. Her areas of expertise include queueing systems and pricing and yield management. Samyukta holds a Doctorate in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University and a Bachelors from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. She serves on the advisory council of the Industrial & Systems Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. One of the focus areas of her doctoral thesis was fork-join queueing systems, which formed the basis of this work.