About

Amit Sinha, Ph.D. is a Senior GIS Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience in product design, system design, and software development life cycle (SDLC). He has a strong background in optimization and distributed computing using Hadoop, Spark, and Dask with Python/Scala and C++. He is experienced in using space-time cubes in climate and atmospheric science with engineering models to determine climate impacts. Amit is also experienced in Indoors Mapping for wayfinding within a facility, indoor positioning system, space planning, and asset management. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at esri, where he architects and develops geospatial solutions. Amit has conducted research on automatic differentiation for nonlinear optimization and has built deep learning (tensorflow, pytorch) and big data models for prediction and classification. He has worked on software products shipped and used worldwide. Amit's education includes a Ph.D. in Nonlinear Optimization Models and Automatic Differentiation from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He also holds a Certificate in Predictive Analytics from the University of California and a Nanodegree in Deep Learning and Computer Vision from Udacity. Amit's tech stack includes Software Engineer, Javascript, Spark, Deep Learning, SQL, AWS, Hadoop, Python, MongoDB, iOS, Senior Software Engineer, Big Data, product designer, Research Scientist, Tensorflow, Pytorch, Django, NodeJS, and Swift. His relevant experience is 8.77 years.