I am excited about creating new products, creating viable business around cool ideas. I'm passionate about learning new and cutting-edge technologies around the web, data-mining, search & analytics.
I've 15 yrs of product development experience with a Masters degree in Computer Science (Data Mining) from NTU Singapore. I've strong experience in building and leading high performance engineering teams. Backend engineering comes easy to me, UI and UX are close to my heart and I keep a great deal of focus on how things are presented to the user.
Director @ I work in a challenging environment in a fast pace company where I help solve multiple p0 issues in limited time and bandwidth. I work closely with product managers in redefining the product, help business scale and bring clarity, vision and order to chaos. As an early member @ Ola, I also helped in hiring my team and several other leaders in the organisation.
Early on I've worked on several pieces of backend services including Inventory management, Accounting, Billing, Invoices etc. Later I moved to to fix the big data platform and analytics that drive business decisions every day. Here, I work with technologies like Apache Storm, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop etc. From November 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) Bengaluru Area, IndiaCo Founder @ As part of University of Florida incubation hub, at SkillCafe, we created a predictive analytics engine that predicts what your next career move should be. Finding the right culture and skill fit company was never this easy.
As a founder, my responsibilities surpassed any one job description. From defining product roadmap to company strategy, from creating a business plan to marketing. Some times, I created Infographics, Banners and presentation deck for investors pitch. Majority of the times I was doing Backend engineering where scalability and UX were my core focus. From November 2013 to November 2014 (1 year 1 month) Chief Programmer, Development Manager @ Solving Endpoint Management problems using IBM Bigfix From December 2009 to November 2013 (4 years) Development Lead @ From November 2005 to December 2009 (4 years 2 months) Software Design Engineer @ Worked as a SDE in Windows Team From October 2004 to November 2005 (1 year 2 months) Software Design Engineer @ From February 2003 to June 2004 (1 year 5 months) Intern-Member Technical Staff @ From 2001 to 2002 (1 year) Noida Area, India
Master's Degree, Information Retrieval, Datamining, 4.5 @ Nanyang Technological University From 2011 to 2013 Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science @ Delhi University From 1997 to 2001 Amit Saini is skilled in: Start-ups, Entrepreneurship, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Web Services, Agile Methodologies, Software Development, Java Enterprise Edition, Data Mining, Software Design, Information Retrieval, Startup Development, Team Leadership, Unix, Software Engineering