About

Amit Kumar is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with over 13 years of hands-on experience in designing and developing highly scalable, reliable, and high-performing application servers and web services. He is currently working as a Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, where he is responsible for developing distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-based applications. Amit has a strong ability to work collaboratively with teams across multiple locations and as an individual contributor to deliver results. He also possesses excellent technical and functional design skills and experience in writing good specifications. He is highly enthusiastic about learning new technologies and is always looking for ways to improve his skills. Amit's technology and platform highlights include Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, AWS, Redshift Spectrum, AWS EMR, AWS Glue, Athena, DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Shell, and Python. He has worked with various technologies and platforms, and his expertise includes AWS, software engineering, microservices, Python, Kubernetes, Java, web development, AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, MongoDB, Spring, Cassandra, Spring Boot, GCP, infra, Kafka, Big Data, testing, Redis, Jenkins, New Relic, Spark, data science, Hadoop, Azure, integration, and senior software engineering. Amit has a Post Graduate Diploma in Data Science from the International Institute of Information Technology in Bangalore, where he graduated in 2019. He also obtained a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Vellore Institute of Technology in 2009. Amit completed his high school education at D.A.V. Public School, where he obtained his AISSE and AISSCE degrees in Physics, Chemistry, and Maths. With 11.62 years of relevant experience, Amit is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer who is passionate about developing distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-based applications. He is an asset to any team and is always looking for ways to improve his skills and knowledge.