Summary
Hersh Amin is an engineering manager and founder with 12 years of experience building cloud-native, microservices-driven systems across healthcare, legal tech, finance, and aerospace. He combines hands-on expertise in Go, Python, Kubernetes and Terraform with a track record of leading cross-functional teams to modernize legacy platforms and operate at terabyte-scale data ingestion. A serial entrepreneur and drone enthusiast, he has founded multiple startups focused on drone swarming, predictive aircraft maintenance, mobile apps and location-based events, and has led NASA-collaborative research on wing-structure sizing. Currently driving AI-enabled legal tech at DISCO, Hersh brings practical SRE and architecture chops from migrations to cloud as well as deep domain experience in secure PCI-compliant and high-throughput financial systems. Colleagues describe him as restless and inventive—comfortable shifting between board-level product vision and low-level avionics and embedded systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Bachelor's degree Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
English