Amit Kumar
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Architect and Developer
Amit is a senior full-stack architect and developer with nearly 17 years of experience building robust system architecture, DevOps, and data engineering for different clients, including DXC Technologies and various startups in India, like Canvera and HireHunch. He specializes in AWS DevOps and data engineering using Kinesis, Glue, Athena, QuickSight, language agnostic, and SQL and NoSQL databases. Amit is also an expert in integrating open-source alternatives to commercial software.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Java, NoSQL, RDBMS, Python 3, Spring 5, Amazon Web Services (AWS), MERN Stack, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Docker, System Design
The most amazing...
...opportunity I've had is working as a CTO and co-founder of a B2B platform that provides technical interviewing services.
Work Experience
Senior Consultant, Infrastructure and Technology
Coastr
- Architected, developed, and migrated 500 GB of telematics data from Couchbase to AWS S3 data lake, saving a third of the company's AWS bill.
- Set up a data lake on AWS to store the telematics data. Used AWS Glue to catalog the JSON document, flattened it, and processed it.
- Provided a provision to query this data using Athena query and refactored how the telematics data was consumed.
- Used the tech stack Node.js with Apollo GraphQL, TyepScript, GRPC, AWS, and Redis for microservice communication.
Co-founder and CTO
HireHunch
- Built a product from idea to MVP stage. Developed HunchVue, a video conferencing, whiteboarding, and code editor using FFmpeg with a code compiler tool.
- Followed the Agile methodology using Jira, created the product roadmap, prioritized tasks, and conducted coding and system design.
- Built a video processor for recorded video content using AWS Auto Scaling, which can autoscale and process hundreds of videos simultaneously. The CEO appreciated the frugal approach to solving this task.
- Earned Amazon's "Just Do It" award for releasing the coding and video conferencing platform.
Advisor, System Architect
DXC Technology
- Worked as a full-stack system architect and was involved in the enterprise app migration to AWS, GCP. Designed the Smart City Big Data platform on GCP and handled different phases of data collection, ingestion, transformation, storage, presentation, and security.
- Used Azure DevOps for managing the sprints and daily scrum.
- Designed the GreenField LandScape to migrate hundreds of the Bespoke App.
Technical Architect
Kloud9 Retail
- Worked as an individual contributor and mentored a team of 7-8 members. Involved in working as a full-stack technical architect. The application was developed using the Spring Framework and MongoDB for data storage.
- Built the infrastructure on GCP. This application was deployed for Macy's in the USA.
- Employed distributed streaming platform for click streams.
Experience
Hire Hunch
https://www.hirehunch.comCoastr Telematics
https://www.coastr.comTo solve this issue, I set up the data lake on AWS to store the telematics data. Used AWS Glue to catalog the JSON document, flattened the JSON, and processed it. This provided a provision to query this data using Athena query and refactored how the telematics data was consumed.
Photographers Portfolio
https://photographers.canvera.comI worked as a senior developer of Vivyo, a subscription-based web hosting application intended for professional photographers providing integrated e-store and creating personalized websites for showcasing their work, creating customized photo books, and selling their photographs. With Vivyo, one could make and publish a website in one minute using over a thousand available in-house designed themes.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Information Technology
BMS College of Engineering - Bengaluru, India
Intermediate Seconday Education in Physics, Chemistry, Maths
Muslim Minority College - Bhagalpur, Bihar, India
Matriculation in Matriculation
Gurukul High School - Bhagalpur, Bihar, India
Certifications
Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer
Google Cloud
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
Skills
Languages
Google Apps Script, SQL, Java, JavaScript, HTML, TypeScript, CSS, Python 3, Java 8
Frameworks
Spring Boot, Spring, Spring 5, Spring 4, gRPC
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js, FFmpeg
Tools
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Git, AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, Terraform, Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM)
Paradigms
DevOps, Microservices, REST, ETL
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Docker
Storage
RDBMS, Amazon DynamoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Data Lakes, Google Cloud, Couchbase, Spring Data Elasticsearch, Database Migration, MongoDB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Other
System Design, Computer Science, Amazon RDS, Amazon Chime, Back-end, APIs, Networking, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Distributed Systems, Big Data, Web Development, Video Conferencing, Data Engineering, CTO, Product Management, Okta, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Containerization
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