About

Amar Akshat is a seasoned software engineer with over 10 years of experience in writing, reviewing, supporting, refactoring, and copying quality code. He has worked with several world-class companies, gaining a wide range of experience and exposure to different technologies. Amar has reviewed and learned more code than he has written, and he is always looking for new and innovative ways to solve problems. Amar loves Python and is infatuated with Golang, but his first love was C++. He has dealt with data sets exceeding 10s of millions and contributed to the design and implementation of a Read-Intensive system with 10k reads per second, real-time and EOD analysis. Amar has harnessed the power of Kubernetes and invested time into identifying the most powerful config languages and deployment patterns, including GCL, Cuelang, Jsonnet, and Starlark. Amar is a proponent of writing quality code and follows world-class standards laid out by well-established large Investment Banks. He has supported, automated, and robotized infrastructure components of scalable trading systems and build systems. He has also written, failed, and later succeeded in establishing his own standards at adventurous start-ups. Amar has followed freedom-driven quality code standards at well-renowned product companies. Currently, Amar works with Apple as a Software Development Engineer in the  Apple Pay Engineering team. He leads the Transit Partner Tech Feasibility and Workflow Management, creating high-scale, low-latency transit systems as a platform. His team evaluates unique transit use-cases across a matrix of technical solutions and creates seamless user experience workflows for handpicked regions. These workflows are then put through rigorous scalability tests, leading to the creation of a platform and suite of APIs for future partners. Amar has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Sikkim Manipal University of Health, Medical, and Technological Sciences. He also has a strong educational background, including CBSE (High & Senior High School) from Birla Vidya Mandir, Nainital, and ICSE (Mid & High School) from St. Joseph's College Nainital. He has experience with Kubernetes, Software Engineering, infra, Python, Golang, CI/CD, and Integration, among others. With 12.78 years of relevant experience, Amar is a versatile and experienced software engineer who can be deployed to do anything.