About

Amit Raj is a highly experienced engineer with over 8 years of experience building tools and running applications at an enterprise scale. He has worked across various product domains such as finance, health, and wellness, and has played multiple roles in engineering teams, starting from an automation engineer to a front-end developer, and finally evolving into a senior cloud engineer. Amit has addressed both functional and non-functional requirements needed to meet the right product and operational excellence. Currently, Amit works as a mentor at Scaler Academy, where he plays a mid-senior leadership role as a tech lead, solving deployment architecture, improving processes, and balances for effective team collaboration across time-zones. Additionally, he mentors young engineers in the team for both technical and non-technical facets of career development. Amit is also an active member of the wider community, sharing knowledge and experiences through his blogs at https://amit894.medium.com/ and his learning contributions at https://github.com/amit894. Amit has previously worked as a Staff Software Engineer at Walmart, where he played a tech lead role, directly responsible for both the deployment and functional architecture of the product to fully scale to distributed needs. Additionally, he helped the teams improve on processes and documentation needed for effective team collaboration across time-zones. As a people leader, he was also involved in mentoring young engineers in the team for both technical and non-technical facets of career development. Amit holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Sciences from BITS, Pilani, and has completed a Product Management Course from PM School. He also holds a Senior Secondary degree from Jawahar Vidya Mandir, Ranchi, and a Secondary School degree from Vidya Vihar Residential School. Amit has a diverse tech stack that includes expertise in Senior Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Frontend, DevOps, AWS, Backend, Azure, Web, Product Management, Ansible, Ruby, Java, Mobile, and Python. With 9.70 years of relevant experience, Amit is a highly skilled and experienced engineer who is passionate about mentoring and contributing to the wider community.