Amar Kumar
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Bharati Amarnani
Amar is a very result oriented team player. He helped improve the billing and rewards process ensuring there were 0 errors which helped reduce customer interaction thus leading to reduction in cost. Amar lead the new process changes and always delivered his projects on time. Very focused individual whose main aim was to improve the internal processes for the company. It was a pleasure working with Amar.
Raymond Lei
Smart is the phrase that comes to mind when I think about Amar. I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Amar for a year. Above all, I was impressed with Amar’s ability to solve difficult Software Engineering problems such as System Design. And, of course, his honesty and good communication skills. Amar would be a true asset for any positions requiring backend Software Engineering skills and comes with my heartfelt recommendation.
Bharati Amarnani
Amar is a very result oriented team player. He helped improve the billing and rewards process ensuring there were 0 errors which helped reduce customer interaction thus leading to reduction in cost. Amar lead the new process changes and always delivered his projects on time. Very focused individual whose main aim was to improve the internal processes for the company. It was a pleasure working with Amar.
Raymond Lei
Smart is the phrase that comes to mind when I think about Amar. I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Amar for a year. Above all, I was impressed with Amar’s ability to solve difficult Software Engineering problems such as System Design. And, of course, his honesty and good communication skills. Amar would be a true asset for any positions requiring backend Software Engineering skills and comes with my heartfelt recommendation.
Bharati Amarnani
Amar is a very result oriented team player. He helped improve the billing and rewards process ensuring there were 0 errors which helped reduce customer interaction thus leading to reduction in cost. Amar lead the new process changes and always delivered his projects on time. Very focused individual whose main aim was to improve the internal processes for the company. It was a pleasure working with Amar.
Raymond Lei
Smart is the phrase that comes to mind when I think about Amar. I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Amar for a year. Above all, I was impressed with Amar’s ability to solve difficult Software Engineering problems such as System Design. And, of course, his honesty and good communication skills. Amar would be a true asset for any positions requiring backend Software Engineering skills and comes with my heartfelt recommendation.
Bharati Amarnani
Amar is a very result oriented team player. He helped improve the billing and rewards process ensuring there were 0 errors which helped reduce customer interaction thus leading to reduction in cost. Amar lead the new process changes and always delivered his projects on time. Very focused individual whose main aim was to improve the internal processes for the company. It was a pleasure working with Amar.
Raymond Lei
Smart is the phrase that comes to mind when I think about Amar. I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Amar for a year. Above all, I was impressed with Amar’s ability to solve difficult Software Engineering problems such as System Design. And, of course, his honesty and good communication skills. Amar would be a true asset for any positions requiring backend Software Engineering skills and comes with my heartfelt recommendation.
Experience
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GameChange
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United Arab Emirates
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Technology Leader / Engineering Manager
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Nov 2021 - Present
• Owned everything in tech/engineering for Shopkey. From, managing engineers (~10) at all levels to optimising infra and hands-on coding. • Developed Payment and Metrics micro-services as an IC from scratch, integrated with payment gateways such as Doku (based in Indonesia) and Stripe. • Lead the development of other micro-services (On-boarding, Product Mgmt, Scrapper, User Mgmt) from scratch in the capacity of Technical Architect / Engineering Manager. • Owned everything in tech/engineering for Shopkey. From, managing engineers (~10) at all levels to optimising infra and hands-on coding. • Developed Payment and Metrics micro-services as an IC from scratch, integrated with payment gateways such as Doku (based in Indonesia) and Stripe. • Lead the development of other micro-services (On-boarding, Product Mgmt, Scrapper, User Mgmt) from scratch in the capacity of Technical Architect / Engineering Manager.
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FinAccel
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Indonesia
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Staff Engineer
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Jun 2020 - Nov 2021
• Owned and lead the migration of Lender and Loan micro-services (in Go) from (Python based) Monolith that included Architecture design, integration with existing system and ensuring zero downtime/data loss. • Established and built Go best practices, Unit tests framework, Protocol buffers, CI/CD pipelines, deployment and provisioning methodology that guided the team through technology transition. • Built a framework for lender integration and integrated Permata bank (based in Indonesia) as lender with the Lender service in the capacity of an IC. • Integrated new in-house end user apps as clients to Loan service in the capacity of an IC Show less
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Circles.Life
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Singapore
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Telecommunications
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Nov 2018 - May 2020
• Owned and lead the development of Rewards PaaS from scratch that included Architecture and System design, migration of features from existing Monolith to support Circles.Life's Telco OS. • Developed multiple rewards/promotions features in the capacity of an IC that enabled Marketing & International Launch teams with hyper growth in Singapore as well as successful launch in Taiwan and Australia. • Developed Mobile data Bucketing/Mgmt from scratch for the cross vertical Telco platform team in the capacity of an IC. Show less
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Paytm
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India
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Jan 2018 - Nov 2018
• Design and developed a Producer/Consumer based OTT system from scratch in the capacity of an IC to efficiently sync movie shows from ~3k cinemas all over India. • Integrated and on-boarded TicketNew (leading cinema ticketing platform in South India with ~1k cinemas under its banner) on PayTm single-handedly as an IC. • Lead the Acquisition squad for integrating with Nearbuy.com and Insider.com (Paytm's new business acquisitions) that included Architecture design and cross vertical communication. Show less
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Compro Technologies
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India
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Oct 2015 - Dec 2017
• Lead the development (as Founding engineer) for in-house product ComproDLS, developed 6 back-end micro-services from scratch.• Established and built NodeJS best practices, Unit tests framework, Heroku deployment and provisioning methodology that guided the team through technology transition.• Developed a web based content editor/ingestion tool for Cengage's National Geographic editorial team, involving full-stack development.
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Software Engineer
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Oct 2013 - Sep 2015
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Associate Software Engineer
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Aug 2012 - Sep 2013
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Education
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2008 - 2012
Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology
B.Tech, Information Technology
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