About

Amar Kumar is a Data Engineer II at Sequoia Consulting Group with over 7 years of industry experience in Java, Python, and Big Data Analytics. He has a strong understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, and System Design, and has worked across multiple domains, including Healthcare and BFSI. Amar has a good knowledge of Multi-Cloud Services, including AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and DigitalOcean, and has experience working with Ruby scripting and relational databases, SQL. He is proficient in Dependency Management, Source Control, and comprehension tools such as Apache Maven, Git, etc. Amar has also interviewed, mentored, evaluated, and graduated new hires and interns in his team. He has participated in peer code reviews to maintain high coding standards and has handled the responsibility of Release and Deployment Manager for pushing code into the production environment, with efficient knowledge of CI/CD. In his current role at Sequoia, Amar is helping build Batch & Near Real-Time HRIS Data Pipelines in AWS Managed Airflow Pipelines using Glue, PySpark. He is also involved in building Data Extract pipelines from different sources, such as PrismHR, Finch, Workday, etc. Amar has been involved in the end-to-end implementation of various HRIS entities, including Variable Compensation, Payroll, etc., from Raw Source in S3 Storage Buckets to Operational Data Store (ODS), Normalization, and generating CDM (Common Data Models). Amar has also worked with Accolite as an Associate Technical Delivery Manager, where he was responsible for developing a Data Insight tool Platform to provide user insights about the data by providing data profiling and data quality reports. He has also worked with KPMG as a Consultant, where he was part of the Portfolio Accounting team and worked on the implementation of caching Mechanism, performance monitoring, and benchmarking via JMeter, reconciliation framework, and deployment of code into Dev, QA, PP, and Prod Environments. Amar holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University, with a major in Information Science & Engineering. He has experience working with a wide range of technologies, including AWS, Data Engineering, SQL, Apache Airflow, Python, Spark, Docker, Jenkins, Kafka, UI, Big Data, Spring Boot, Selenium, CI/CD, Pandas, MongoDB, Hadoop, Spring, Java, Flask, Apache Hive, Software Engineer, Normalization, MapReduce