Summary
Amit Bhagat is a Technical Lead based in Pune with about 11 years of IT experience, blending seven years of deep IBM mainframe operations with over two years of hands-on AWS cloud engineering. At Cognizant he architects and manages core AWS services—EC2, EBS, ELB, RDS, VPC, IAM, Route 53—and automates operational tasks while monitoring production systems via CloudWatch and SNS. His background in mainframe batch and console operations (TWS, SDSF, JES2) gives him strong expertise in large-scale, mission-critical environments and operational discipline. Amit is comfortable bridging legacy systems and cloud-native infrastructure, having migrated operational practices from LPAR-based mainframes to scalable AWS deployments. He holds an MCA from Savitribai Phule Pune University and is known for pragmatic problem solving, like leveraging S3 for DB and log backups to simplify disaster recovery.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
HSC, HSC at HAL High School and Jr College
Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Computer Science, First class, Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Computer Science, First class at Savitribai Phule Pune University
SSC, SSC at KV Gwalior