About

Amit Chandel is a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer with over 15 years of relevant experience in the field. He is currently serving as the Co-founder and CTO of SmartCoin Financials, where he is responsible for hiring Engineers for the ML Platform and Backend Infra. Amit has a diverse and extensive background in software development, engineering management, team management, and recruitment. Prior to his current role, Amit worked as the Director of Engineering at Kiwi, where he was responsible for the core backend, business intelligence/analytics, and the infra platforms. He also helped with team management across engineering and analytics teams, and recruitment for key positions. Regularly performed 1-1 meeting with team members to make sure Kiwi was helping them achieve career goals. At Kiwi, Amit implemented the highly available and scalable php-based gaming backend which was used for all the different app-store based versions (android, iOS and amazon). He also developed a Content CMS platform with localization, and A/B testing support. Additionally, Amit designed and implemented a lambda-architecture based BI platform to handle and process millions of streaming events (~10TB of monthly data) on top of Google BigQuery (earlier Vertica). It comprised of an events sdk, real-time dashboard, reporting engine, Games and UA tracking dashboard. With a team of 3 devops engineers, Amit managed the infrastructure to make sure it was up and running 24x7 handling millions of daily active users, and constantly improved it to so that developers could deploy releases/hot-fixes in a seamless manner - using open source tech e.g. git, jenkins, rundeck, puppet, etcd, nagios, ganglia etc. Amit has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a degree from the University of Toronto. He is proficient in various technologies, including Backend, Infra, ML, Puppet, Test, Android, PHP, Jenkins, iOS, and DevOps. Amit is a highly motivated individual who is passionate about technology and its impact on society. He is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to learn and grow.