Amit Kumar has been in Engineering setup for almost 2 decades. He is an open-source enthusiast having a passion to build large-scale (more than 10-15 million customers), cross-country platforms/systems across various industries.
He enjoys speaking at Developer and Open Source Technology Conferences worldwide. Some of the talks can be referred below or here. He is co-founder of the Open Source Not-for-profit community JSChannel - organizes meet-ups and conferences.
He is a strong believer of:
YOU TOUCH IT, YOU IMPROVE IT!
He started his journey as a Java Engineer writing Servlets, JSPs, EJBs.. very early part of his career, he was influenced by industry veterans: Uncle Bob aka Bob Martin & Neal Ford. He learnt Agile software paradigm and architecture thinking from them. He is a close follower and implements modern engineering practices of using technology to solve business problems. He is in constant pursuit to find simpler solutions to complex problems.
For the last more than 6 years, he has focussed on building Digital Solutions and Transforming Financial Service Institutions. Currently, he is leading product and engineering teams to build Financial Service Solutions for Bank Jago - the fastest bank to become a Unicorn.
Competencies
- Emerging trends/ technologies, architecture patterns
- Cloud Computing (GCP, Alibaba Cloud, AWS) with focus on Security controls
- Build Digital Bank (fully cloud-based) and Lending Infrastructure (including STP) - Team building & Engineering Engagement
- Monetize business with API Ecosystem
Driving leadership abilities:
- Established engineering setup (including the legal entity) of DKatalis across 3 locations (Singapore, Pune - India, Jakarta - Indonesia), to build regional scalable & predictable growth of Engineering capacity (over $3 million budget)
- Transformed IT Organisation of a Bank from a siloed setup towards being Agile and People-Centric (600+ employees, modified version of Spotify model)
- Talented at demystifying tools, frameworks, and platforms for non-technical stakeholders
Technology speaking:
- Organizer of largest DevOps Conference in Jakarta, Indonesia – 2018
- Organizer of largest Javascript Conference (JSChannel) with 500+ attendees (2013-16) - Speaker at Ruby Conference globally – New Orleans, SFO, Melbourne, Belgium
- Speaker at Agile Conference, Australia
While he is not working, he enjoys to walk by the white sand beach or drive through endless road/ ranges or playing with his son.
Little known facts about him
- he is a physics grad, stumbled to programming and started to write code as a brain exercise
- he did his masters in computers but never touched computer till the second year
- he is an Aquarian, the majority of his life decisions are based on intuition (following leap of faith)