About

Amit Kumar is an accomplished engineering leader with over 21 years of experience in the field of cloud-native and SaaS products, specializing in data and ML platforms. Currently, he serves as the Senior Manager of Software Engineering at Snowflake, where he leads the strategy and development of their products. Prior to this, Amit worked at Salesforce as the Director of Engineering for Einstein Discovery, where he led a team of engineers to build an enterprise-grade ML platform and product that provides automated insights, models, and predictions on customer data. He also led the Salesforce Analytics Platform, Desktop Sharing, and File Sync teams in the past. Amit is a visionary leader with a proven track record of creating value for customers by providing simple-to-use solutions while building for reliability and scale. He has a deep understanding of the big and low-level picture of system architecture, driven by operational excellence. He is skilled at creating mindset shifts around set processes and simplifying complex concepts for stakeholders, making him a valuable asset to any team. Amit's skills include engineering leadership, thought leadership, strategic planning, vision, roadmap, people management, project management, product development, hiring, retention, coaching, mentorship, manager of managers, architecture, system design, distributed systems, machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), analytics, business intelligence (BI), data platform, data cloud, full-stack development, scale, performance, reliability, cloud computing, software development, and enterprise. Amit holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from MNIT. He also completed his Class 10th and 12th from Kendriya Vidyalaya. His technical skills include Snowflake, Salesforce, ML, AI, software engineering, senior software engineering, UI, and test. Amit is passionate about the human side of technology and strives to make a positive impact on people's lives through his work.