About

Amit Kumar is a Technical Lead at Ola ANI Technologies with over 10 years of experience in Java/J2EE Development. His core skills include Java 8/J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring RESTful services, Apache Kafka, Apache Ignite, Redis, Microservices Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, Domain Driven Design, and Agile practices such as TDD, BDD, Agile, Kanban, Scrum, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Integration. He is also well-versed in testing frameworks like JUnit and Cucumber, and tools like IntelliJ Idea, Bamboo, GIT, Maven, Splunk, AppDynamics, Oracle Sql Developer Tomcat7x, and New Relic. At Ola, Amit is the primary tech lead for Global Customer Payments, where he works closely with product teams and leaders to solve problems ranging from cash-to-cashless in India and International markets. He has also successfully integrated multiple payment methods such as Juspay (Phonepe, AmazonPe Wallet) and Paytm Wallet in India to increase cashless transactions and integrated fraud management services such as Ravelin to avoid international payment fraud. Amit is currently working with the product team to create the architecture of a unified payment platform for all Ola verticals to provide a seamless payment user experience. Amit has also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at IG and as an Application Software Developer Senior Consultant/Tech Lead at NttData. At IG, he helped junior members in the team to understand the current system architecture, actively participated in code review sessions, and helped the Transaction Reporting Team in high-level design for research projects. At NttData, he worked with Goldman Sachs Client for migrating the database from Hong Kong to New York and made the system reliable, stable, and resilient 24/7 during any pandemic like an earthquake or flood. Amit holds an Engineer's Degree in Computer Science from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, and completed his high school education from DAV Public School, B.S. City. His relevant experience in the industry is 11.61 years, and he is well-versed in tech stacks like Kafka, Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Microservices, SQL, Bamboo, CI/CD, test, Redis, Integration, MySQL, MongoDB, and more. Amit is also a team player and a mentor who emphasizes following clean code practices.