About

Amit Gupta is a highly skilled Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS) with over 11 years of experience in strategic problem solving, distributed software development, and cloud technologies. He has a proven track record in building, architecting, and delivering highly reliable and scalable software, specializing in cloud migration. Currently working at Amazon, Amit is a part of the AWS Commerce Platform team, where he has led multiple cross-project and cross-team efforts. He has successfully built serverless, NoSQL based cloud-native microservices, and helped multiple teams on building disaggregated context, native AWS microservices, backed by NoSQL databases. He has also delivered a crucial change in AWS Commerce Platform onboarding application stack, unblocking Re-invent 2020 related AWS service launches. Additionally, Amit has migrated CP’s Central Database to AWS RDS managed service Aurora as a stop-gap solution before DB’s eventual deprecation resulting in marked improvement in performance and availability. Prior to his current role, Amit worked as a Software Support Engineer at Amazon in the E-Commerce Foundation Technologies (ECFT) team, where he designed and developed an autoscaling application to scale fleet based off of traffic pattern and historical data based extrapolation. He also led the effort to move one of the Detail Page Service stacks to run on AWS and redesigned and redeveloped scaling functionality for improved fault tolerance. Before joining Amazon, Amit worked as a Senior Technical Associate at Cybage, where he made client requested code upgrades in services using big data technologies like Hadoop, Cassandra, and implemented a monitoring application on top of Hadoop cluster comprising of AWS EC2 instances which provided real-time cluster performance information. Amit holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Punjab Technical University. He is proficient in AWS, software engineering, microservices, web development, NoSQL, Hadoop, big data, and Cassandra. With 14.03 years of relevant experience, Amit is a result-driven engineer with a demonstrated success in building highly reliable and scalable software.