About

Amar Malik is a highly skilled and experienced software development engineer and security certifier currently working at Amazon. With expertise in AWS, microservices, API development, automated testing, domain-driven design, and application security, he has a proven track record of solving complex problems and delivering successful projects end-to-end. Amar's strategic project planning skills, using the Working Backwards approach, have led to quick decisions and effective communication with senior leaders. He has a strong sense of leadership and is known for his strengths in ownership, bias for action, customer obsession, learning, and delivering results. As a security certifier at Amazon, Amar is responsible for raising the bar of Amazon products by supporting a security development lifecycle. He enforces security policies within Amazon, reviews the design of applications from a security point of view, performs threat modeling, and conducts security testing. Currently, Amar is working with the Universal Image Feature Catalog team at Amazon, building a fully-managed machine learning platform for applied scientists and engineering communities within Amazon. The platform is used to deploy machine learning models that extract features from the biggest catalog of product images, and manage the lifecycle of their models and features. Previously, Amar has made significant contributions to the re-architecture of the Retail Vendor Payment Systems at Amazon. He designed and developed the first and most critical domain service of the system, the Invoice Domain Service, which creates invoices worth more than 100 billion USD per year. He also designed a component named Invoice Ingestion Gateway using the API Gateway pattern for ingesting invoices into VPS. Amar has also designed and implemented an LDAP permission-based data segregation capability in two applications critical from compliance and legal points of view, for which he received a Quarterly Excellence Award in Oct’20. With over 5 years of relevant experience, Amar's technical stack includes software engineering, testing, machine learning, AWS, microservices, and integration. He is a highly motivated and skilled professional, always willing to learn and apply new technologies to solve complex problems.