AMIT KUMAR
South San Francisco
Summary
Accomplished Software Engineer with over 9 years of expertise in designing, developing, and implementing scalable, event-driven systems and microservices architectures. Proven track record in delivering high-quality, performance-driven solutions with a focus on innovation, efficiency, and robust scalability.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Developer
Fanatics Inc
11.2021 - Current
- Led the "Refund to Gift Certificate" project across legacy and multi-tender environments and designed a fallback mechanism for refunds with minimal database and code changes, ensuring seamless implementation and zero production issues post-deployment
- Additionally, played a key role in developing the payment domain leveraging Temporal orchestration and PostgreSQL for enhanced reliability and scalability
- Architected and implemented the Order Life Cycle application as the source of truth for order state management, utilizing Golang gRPC for efficient inter-service communication, Kafka for event-driven processing, and Redis for low-latency state caching
- Designed the system with an event-sourcing pattern to ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and eventual consistency across distributed services
- Contributed to the design and implementation of a global order management system using Temporal orchestration, microservices, and event-driven architecture.
Software Engineer
The MathWorks
03.2019 - 10.2021
- Developed a module to automate MATLAB installation in AWS, Azure, and Docker containers, leveraging Akka Streams, the Dropwizard framework, and gRPC
- Built REST APIs using the Gin web framework to facilitate MATLAB stack creation for internal AWS users
- Developed a CLI tool for cross-account sharing of AWS resources using the Cobra CLI framework and AWS Go SDK, enabling seamless cloud resource management
- Implemented a custom Packer plugin in Go to create EBS snapshots of MATLAB-installed volumes and distribute them across multiple AWS accounts and regions
- Automated CI/CD pipelines using Maven plugins, streamlining code integration and deployment.
Software Engineering Intern
The MathWorks
01.2018 - 06.2018
- Implemented a component to capture footprint of Matlab product using Perl script and made it available as a daemon service using Linux Systemd
- Implemented a template to create example components using Node,js, webpack, inquirer and handlebar module
- Worked with BatUP team to reduce calls to JMD Api by using Apache JCS cache, Akka Actor model and Dropwizard framework.
Application Developer
IBM India Pvt Ltd
05.2011 - 12.2016
- Active contributor in the re-architecture of the entire system, in adopting microservice approach.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida12.2018
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
National Institute of Technology
Durgapur, India05.2011
Skills
- Go
- Java
- Elixir
- Nodejs
- JavaScript
- Perl
- RESTful services
- GRPC
- Spring/Spring Boot
- Dropwizard
- Kafka
- Temporal
- Redis
- Postgres
- Cassandra
- AWS
- Packer
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Elasticsearch
- Apache Camel
- Maven
- Docker
- GNU Make
- JUnit/JMockit
- Git
- Perforce
- Jenkins
Accomplishments
- IBM Orion awardee for excellence and eminence in work.
- Received Technology Maven certificate in IBM.
Timeline
Senior Software Developer
Fanatics Inc
11.2021 - Current
Software Engineer
The MathWorks
03.2019 - 10.2021
Software Engineering Intern
The MathWorks
01.2018 - 06.2018
Application Developer
IBM India Pvt Ltd
05.2011 - 12.2016
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Florida
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
National Institute of Technology
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