Amitabha Kar

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About Amitabha Kar

Driving excellence through technology, engineering, and leadership to empower a high performing team implementing robust, resilient, cost-effective, scalable, and highly available enterprise solutions. Accomplishments include significant cost savings, enhanced system availability, increased satisfaction, and strengthened client relationships, leading to 3-year contract extension and recognition as a top-performing engineering manager. 6+ years of experience as software engineering manager and partnered with various cross-functional teams, stakeholders and external vendors across the globe that resulted in the successful delivery of large-scale software projects. 10+ years of experience in software architecture design, development, application support and managed services of web-based applications using Java/ J2EE, RESTful API, Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS Cloud technologies and following Scrum Agile practices across various domains like Retail/ e-commerce, Healthcare, Education, Airlines and Claims. Experienced in mentoring, coaching, performance reviews, and planning career growth for teams, together with effective engineering management to maximize resource utilization and empowering teams for continuous growth. A listing of my core competencies includes: • Strategic Planning • Project Management • Agile Development • Technical Leadership • Engineering Management • People Management • Problem Solving • Distributed Systems • Risk Management • Issue Management • Resource Management • Change Management • Interpersonal Communication • Software Development Life Cycle • Back-end Development • Coaching & Mentoring TECHNICAL SKILLS: Languages/ Interface: Java/ J2EE Backend, RESTful APIs, JSP, Servlet, JavaScript, Python, SQL, PL/SQL Cloud technologies: Amazon Web Services, AWS S3, EC2, SNS, SQS, Lambda, EBS, ELB, Route 53, GCP Architectural Design: Microservices, Event-Driven, Distributed Systems, Serverless, REST, Monolithic Databases (DB): Oracle, MySQL, IBM DB2, MongoDB NoSQL Application Servers: Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic Frameworks: Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Struts Messaging: Kafka, RabbitMQ Build Tools: ANT, Maven Testing: Junit, Mockito DevOps: Git, Gitlab, Bitbucket, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD (Continuous Integration/ Continuous Development), Jenkins, Bamboo, JIRA, Confluence, Kanban Other Technologies: Elasticsearch, Redis, MuleSoft System Monitoring: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Splunk IDE (Integrated Development Environment): IntelliJ, Eclipse Platforms: Linux, MacOS, Windows Methodology: Waterfall, Scrum Agile, SAFe