About

Amit Kumar is an experienced software engineer with a strong background in architecture, design, and development of large-scale software systems. He has a sound knowledge of data structures and algorithm design, and is proficient in programming languages such as Go and Java. Amit has hands-on experience in designing and developing large-scale distributed systems, and is well-versed in OOAD, design patterns, software architecture design, and software development life cycle. Amit is specialized in microservice architecture, Kafka, Hive, NoSQL DB, and distributed cache Redis, and has experience working with microservices and RESTful APIs. He is an expert in database design and no sequel DB, like Cassandra and MongoDB, and has hands-on experience with Git, GitHub, and Bitbucket. Amit is also experienced in working on agile/scrum methodology and has worked on backend development for distributed systems. Amit is currently working as an Engineering Leader at Jio, where he is building a highly secure health data platform at scale. He has previously worked as a Lead Engineer at Samsung R&D Bangalore, where he was involved in the development of Smart Framework for Tizen OS based devices, and the development of Tizen Multimedia Framework in support of multimedia features like Audio, Video, and Camera. Amit has also worked as a Software Development Engineer at Uber. Amit holds a Master of Technology (M.Tech.) degree in Computer Science from BIT, and has relevant experience of 11.11 years. He has a good understanding of containers, VMs, and container-based tools like Docker and Kubernetes, and has experience leading the scrum as a Scrum Master and leading multiple projects simultaneously. Amit is proficient in various tech stacks, including Spring, Hadoop, Web, and Big Data. He is a skilled designer and has experience working with technologies such as Apache Hive, MySQL, HDFS, Spring Boot, and Jenkins.