About

Amarnath Chandrakumar is a highly energetic and skilled Software Engineer with 11 years of experience in delivering quality server-side solutions in a distributed environment, chiefly on API Management, cloud storage, and PaaS platform. He is currently working as a Technology Vice President at Goldman Sachs, where he is part of the Application Infrastructure team under the Core Engineering Division. Amarnath has a solid background in API security, cloud storage, distributed systems, scalability, and system design. He has a good understanding of cloud and distributed computing, scalability, and availability. He is highly passionate about working with the latest tools and technologies and can quickly adapt to understand and learn to apply them. He is proficient in Object-Oriented Design and Development using Java. Amarnath is responsible for leading the design and development activity for the Document Lake Application, the firm's centralized highly available, and massively scalable cloud storage application using EMC Elastic Cloud Storage, Amazon S3 SDK, Apache Kafka, Mongo DB, and ElasticSearch. He is also responsible for designing and developing new features in a cloud-hosted, fully managed platform for real-time processing of streaming data at massive scale (DataStream) and cloud-hosted managed services platform (ServiceCloud). He is responsible for data distribution and management of firm-wide reference data. Amarnath has previously worked as a Technology Associate and Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from K.L.N College of Engineering and a High School degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Y.W.C.A Matriculation & Higher Secondary School. He is proficient in Terraform, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Kafka, Infra, Java, and is a skilled Software Engineer with relevant experience of 11.27 years.