Amar Thakur
Staff Software Engineer at Nium
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolAmar Thakur is a Staff Software Engineer and backend architect based in Mumbai with over a decade of experience designing and shipping high-scale payment, wallet, and warehouse management systems. He has led end-to-end projects at fintech firms like Nium and Instarem, building resilient services in Node.js with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ and ELK for production-grade observability. His background spans blockchain tooling (watchers, transaction signers) and large-scale data platforms that once housed hundreds of millions of user records, showing comfort across finance, logistics, and analytics domains. Amar combines hands-on coding with technical leadership—mentoring teams, owning API integrations with frontends, and driving agile delivery. He favors pragmatic architectures that balance multi-currency, scheduling and reliability concerns, and has repeatedly moved projects from concept to live operations. Colleagues would note his knack for turning complex transaction rules and schedulers into maintainable services.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology at Rajendra Mane College of Engineering & Technology, RatnagiriJSM College, Alibag - Raigad
English, Hindi, Marathi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (4)
mongodb6
nodejs6
mongoose6
sorting6
Github contributions (5)
amarthakur0/nodejs-api-template
Jul 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
amarthakur0/nodejs-api-component
Sep 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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