About

Amit Karunakaran is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer at Shutterstock with over 8 years of relevant experience. He graduated from New York University with a Master's Degree in Computer Science in 2015 and has since been working at Shutterstock. At his current role, Amit has designed scalable APIs and built microservices for Shutterstock's Commerce/Payments platform. He has also designed and built simple microservice applications on message queues like RabbitMQ which handles actions related to fulfilling Shutterstock Orders and Chargeback notifications from External payment processors. Additionally, Amit has designed and architected systems for syncing products and orders created in Salesforce with Shutterstock Commerce Service. Amit has experience in building standalone cron jobs for payment reports generation which integrates seamlessly with external services and also syncing products created in Salesforce with Shutterstock’s product service. He has also successfully built single page Business Administrative applications for all the Business Units across Shutterstock using React and Redux. As part of development, Engineering responsibilities also included full stack testing across all levels - Unit, Integration, and Acceptance. Amit has mentored junior developers in building and understanding REST based APIs and microservices. He has also worked as a Software Developer Intern at Shutterstock Premier Team and assisted in expanding the web application. Amit has also been a part of the Shutterstock Hackathon 2015 winning team for developing Email Generating Template Application. Prior to Shutterstock, Amit worked as a Web Developer Intern at SalesBus, where he worked as an intern in the field of web development using various JavaScript frameworks and front end skills in implementing desktop and mobile applications for SalesBus on various platforms. He also structured the design for the Karavan IOS application using Swift and implemented OAuth calls for the application. Amit's technical skills include Software Engineering, Microservices, Web, Salesforce, test, RabbitMQ, Redux, Integration, NodeJS, iOS, Javascript, Mobile, Frontend, and Swift. Amit is a highly motivated individual with a passion for software development and a proven track record of delivering high-quality products.