About

Amrendra Jha is a Senior Software Engineer at Visa, with a focus on developing backend components for data product applications. He has a strong background in Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, HQL, Scala, and Spark, and is experienced in developing RESTful APIs in Spring Framework using Java. Amrendra has filed a patent application under Visa's intellectual property program for a system and a computer-implemented method for detecting peers of a client entity. Prior to his current role, Amrendra worked as a Data Engineer and Intern at Visa, where he gained experience in full-stack development of the Merchant Peer Recommendation System. This system recommends peers/competitors of merchants based on transaction data and utilizes machine learning, SOLR, Spring, Java, AngularJS, HTML, and CSS. Amrendra holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. He has a diverse tech stack that includes software engineering, Java, Spark, Big Data, SQL, Spring, data engineering, Hadoop, backend, Apache Hive, microservices, recommendation systems, HDFS, ML, MySQL, mobile, web, and Android. With relevant experience of 1.45 years, Amrendra is a dedicated and skilled software engineer who excels in developing complex data products and systems.