About

Amar Kumar is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer at Swiggy with over 6 years of experience in the software development industry. He has a strong background in microservices, backend development, and cloud-based technologies such as AWS. Amar has a proven track record of building highly scalable and reliable systems that meet the needs of his clients. Currently, Amar is working in the intelligence stream at Swiggy, where he is responsible for increasing the relevancy of the user food journey on the Swiggy app. He also works on systems that maintain the classification of food in different cuisines and food groups. Amar is highly proficient in a range of technologies, including Java, Golang, Redis, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Dynamodb, dynamodax, and Kafka. Prior to his role at Swiggy, Amar worked as a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, where he was responsible for the development and maintenance of the SBT library used to store backups on object storage of different cloud platforms such as AWS, OCI, and OPC. He also worked as a Software Developer in Oracle Database Cloud Group, where he primarily focused on software development for backup and recovery of Oracle Database. Amar holds a B.TECH + M.TECH degree in Mining Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is highly skilled in software engineering, AWS, Redis, MySQL, Elastic Search, Kafka, microservices, backend development, and Golang. Amar is a dedicated team player who enjoys mentoring his peers, taking interviews, and engaging in technical discussions.