Amit Kumar
SDE Lead at MyCargoGate Group
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAmit Kumar is an SDE Lead with nine years of experience designing and scaling high-performance backend systems for fintech and edtech at organizations like Novopay, Tarento, and the DIKSHA program. He specializes in Java-based microservices, Kafka-driven event architectures, and distributed datastores (Cassandra, Yugabyte), and has a track record of tuning systems to handle thousands of concurrent users with low latency. He led performance and scalability efforts that enabled Novopay to support 15K+ concurrent users and helped DIKSHA serve millions of learners nationwide. Comfortable across DevOps and platform engineering, he has contributed Kubernetes/Helm and ingress work for Sunbird devops, reflecting an appreciation for production-grade infrastructure. Passionate about leveraging technology for social impact, he combines pragmatic engineering with a focus on measurable system reliability and user reach.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electornics & Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electornics & Communication Engineering at SDM College of Engg & Tech , Dharwad
English, Hindi
Github Skills (12)
infrastructure-as-code10
kubernetes10
nginx10
helm10
devops10
aac10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd9
yaml9
api8
cloud-infrastructure8
apim8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
project-sunbird/sunbird-devops
Oct 2017 - Sep 2022
Repository for Sunbird devops related projects
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 103 commits, 75 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Amit primarily focused on configuring and maintaining the infrastructure for the Sunbird project. Their work involved creating and updating Kubernetes configurations using Helm charts, specifically for services like the registry, certificate signer, and certificate API. They also made changes to the Nginx ingress controller, modifying routing rules and configurations. Furthermore, the user contributed to the environment variables used across different services, like Admin Utils, ensuring proper integration with the learner APIs and other services.
devops
amit-tarento/sunbird-utils
Jul 2019 - May 2022
Common java utilities used by other Sunbird components
Contributions:45 pushes, 49 branches in 2 years 9 months
java-commonjavajava-utilities
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