About

Amanpreet is a Software Development Engineer at Flipkart.com, with over 12 years of relevant experience in the field. He is a quick and continuous learner, and believes that well-written, maintainable code is as important as its correctness and performance. Amanpreet follows the general philosophy of doing things the right way rather than the easy way, which reflects in his code and design choices. At Flipkart, Amanpreet owns a few core services like Product Service and Image Resizing Service, along with varied small tasks in different components. He is part of the core team and has learned how all systems are connected over time. He has gone through Flipkart's flagship sale, Big Billion Days, twice in his tenure, which was full of learning and stress testing their systems to the limit. Amanpreet's work is focused on being performant and scalable in whatever they build, without compromising on the maintainability of the systems. Amanpreet has worked on multiple components and has used and understood deeper things like Hystrix Framework, Nginx, Core Java, Performance Testing tools like Wrk & Seige, Importance & Usefulness of highly instrumented systems using Collectd & Grafana, Clean design using D.I. Systems like Spring & Guice. He has developed skills like Clean Contracts, Backward Compatibility & Dependency Management, Stakeholder management, and building self-debugging systems that could alert and help users debug problems with minimal team member involvement. Before joining Flipkart, Amanpreet worked as a System Analyst at Subex, where he mostly worked in Java and .NET C#. He was part of the Global Delivery Team and built various customized solutions on top of core products to cater to specific needs of Telecos. He also designed and built various Data Processing Tasks and Related GUI using GWT framework for customization/CR’s specific to Telco. Amanpreet holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Visvesvaraya Technological University. He has experience in Software Engineering, Java, Test, Ruby, Web, Spring, PHP, UI, Integration, Big Data, QA, Redis, Javascript, MSSQL, DevOps, GCP, Mobile, and Frontend.