Amit Gaur
Lead Software Engineer at BigCommerce
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAmit Gaur is a Lead Software Engineer based in Sydney with 14 years of experience building high-traffic fintech and SaaS web products. He combines hands-on development in Ruby/Rails, React/TypeScript and cloud-native tooling with technical leadership—mentoring teams, performing code reviews, and driving system design for greenfield and legacy modernization projects. Amit has led mission-critical systems including a property management platform that processes over $60M/month and a currency exchange platform for Bank of Queensland, demonstrating strong SRE and performance optimization skills. His background in academic healthcare software at Northwestern underpins a disciplined approach to reliability, data-driven reporting, and stakeholder collaboration. Known for pragmatic architecture choices and steady delivery, he often bridges product and ops to keep complex services resilient in production.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Science, Computer Science, Masters in Science, Computer Science at University of CincinnatiSt. Vivekanand SchoolBachelor's in Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor's in Technology, Computer Science at Bharati Vidyapeeth
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (70)
rich-text10
theme-ui10
editors10
language-server10
javascript9
browser9
htmx9
wysiwyg9
rte9
contenteditable9
server-side-rendering9
rich-text-editor9
react9
foundation9
text-editor9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
websymphony/almost-flat-ui
Mar 2013 - Jan 2021
Contributions:37 commits, 4 pushes, 1 comment in 7 years 10 months
cssfoundation-frameworkfoundationui-componentstheme-ui
websymphony/paraphrasing-tool
Dec 2020 - Nov 2021
Free paraphrasing tool / article rewriter
Contributions:49 commits, 17 pushes, 1 comment in 10 months
reacttailwindcssrewriterjavascriptparaphrase-generation
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