About

Amit Kumar is a highly experienced technical architect with over 13 years of experience in machine learning and data science and engineering. He has a profound understanding of programming skills, including algorithms, statistics, operation research, predictive modeling, machine and deep learning, and natural language processing. Amit is an expert in Python and R programming, with intermediate skills in Java, PERL, and MATLAB, and beginner skills in Scala, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. Amit has a wide range of skills and expertise, including using various tech and tools such as Scikit-learn, Keras, TensorFlow, Spacy, NLTK, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, and PySpark, Plotly for Python, Neo4J, MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL for databases, Pentaho for ETL, Jenkins, Linux admin, Docker, Kubernetes, Apache Mesos, Marathon, DC/OS for DevOps, Hadoop and Map Reduce/YARN, HBase, Hive for big data, Raspberry Pi3, Arduino Uno for IoT, and Ethereum, dapps, smart contracts for blockchain. Amit is a certified Agile Scrum Master and Project Management kit (Defects, Risk, Cost Management) with a persistent focus on providing architectural solutions and support for multiple travel analytics projects. Currently working as a technical architect at igt, Amit is developing data analysis and integration pipelines in Python and AWS Lambda, SAM, Step Functions, and Athena and Snowflake. He is building ML-based solutions for predicting expected passenger count on a given route using flight schedules & historical data. Amit has worked with several companies in the past, including persistent systems, where he was a Sr. Team Lead, Machine Learning Developer, and Max Healthcare, where he was an Assistant Manager IT, Android Developer. At persistent systems, Amit developed and led end-to-end pipelines in algorithm development, statistical data analysis, machine learning, deep learning, and established scalable data platforms using Python, AWS, Pandas, Apache Spark, and Flask/Django. He has also implemented machine and deep learning-based algorithms in topic modeling, classification & recommendation systems. At Max Healthcare, Amit developed an Android app for Bluetooth Pulse-oximeter and worked on business intelligence and analytics on Pentaho software. Amit has an Advanced Post Graduate Diploma in Bioinformatics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, a Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Statistics (PGDAST) from Indira Gandhi National Open University, and a Bachelor of Technology (B