About

Amit Kumar is a highly experienced Senior Director at Salesforce with a career spanning almost two decades. He has a wealth of knowledge in front office trading technologies, NoSQL DB design, low-latency market data infrastructure, direct exchange data feeds, multithreaded and distributed systems, data science using NumPy tools, data visualization, compression techniques, storage technologies, and key-value DBs such as Redis, memcached, Python, Java, and C++. Amit started his career at the D. E. Shaw Group, where he worked as an Associate Director and was responsible for building technology infrastructure. He developed an ultra-scalable proprietary database and created a hugely successful market data infrastructure. As the head of Futures' information technology group, he delivered software for trading and quant modelling, mentored programmers from premier colleges, and provided opportunities for them to excel. Amit's experience at D. E. Shaw & Co. helped him hone his skills in developing reliable software, hiring the best programmers, and mentoring them. He then joined Salesforce as a Director and is currently serving as a Senior Director. His responsibilities include conceptualizing, designing, and developing extremely reliable software. Amit is a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli. He is also a CFA Level 2 candidate from the CFA Institute. Amit is proficient in Salesforce, infra, Redis, data science, NoSQL, Python, and Java. He has been in the industry for almost 20 years and has gained a wealth of experience in his field. Amit is a highly skilled professional who is dedicated to delivering quality work and mentoring his team to achieve their goals.