About

Sameer Akhtar is an experienced Engineering Lead with over 10 years of experience in software design and development at product companies. He has contributed to multiple successful applications in production and loves to code and do hands-on development while mentoring the team for greater good. Currently working as a Software Developer at josh technology group, Sameer has previously worked at companies such as Tokopedia, Paytm, and urbantouch.com. At urbantouch.com, Sameer served as a Senior Software Development Engineer and contributed to the development of an e-commerce platform built on node.js. He was involved in designing and implementing the webstore and the admin site, implemented store search using sphinx, and worked on UI implementations. He was also involved in interviewing software engineers. At Paytm, Sameer served as a Team Lead and was responsible for designing and developing various modules in the e-commerce engine, including Catalog, Fulfillment, Order Management, Merchant Panel, Storefront, and SEED. He also set up the infrastructure in AWS and led a team of around 10 people. Sameer was the owner for Catalog Management and Storefront Management from the tech side and was responsible for hiring software engineers and tech leads. Sameer holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from VIT and has completed a Certificate in Management Essentials from Harvard Business School Online. He also attended Boys' High School, Allahabad, for his Junior High/Intermediate education. Sameer's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, and he has relevant experience of 12.95 years. With his extensive experience and expertise in software design and development, Sameer is a valuable asset to any organization.