Amit Gaur

Working as a Lead Software Engineer in the Core Payments team.

Responsibilities include:

• Help design/architect/execute the building of services for the BigCommerce payment platform.
• Build integrations with 3rd party APIs that can span multiple codesets/services, fail gracefully, and be highly extensible.
• Coach team towards (and write) code that is performant, fault-tolerant, maintainable, testable, and concise.
• Collaborate with product and design teams to define feature specifications and timelines.
• Engage in technical discussion of new solutions and architectures.
• Perform code reviews to maintain and improve quality.
• Support, mentor, & coach team members.

Notable contributions:

• Lead a project to refactor order finalization process that spans multiple teams and domains from a procedural to an events based implementation.
• Designed and implemented continuous scanning & reporting of sensitive information in payments domain.

Technologies used:

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Go, Typescript, React, gRPC, RabbitMQ, Docker, MySQL, Redis, GCP.

Worked as Technical lead on multiple client projects. 

Responsibilities included:

• Performing code reviews.
• Mentoring developers.
• Providing technical expertise in setting up and performing system design of green field projects.
• Maintaining, extending with new features and modernizing legacy applications.
• Implementing standard backend APIs for green field projects.
• Application health monitoring and site reliability engineering.

Notable contributions:

• Technical lead for property management software that has processed more than $700M in total transaction volume. Currently processing transaction volume north of $60M per month. Leading a team of 5 developers.
• Technical lead for Sydney Trains Customer Impact Evaluator application.
• Helped deliver and deploy currency exchange platform for Bank of Queensland.

Technologies used:

Ruby, Ruby on rails, Crystal lang, React, Redis, Postgres, Oracle DB, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS.

Worked as development lead of Oncology Clinical Trial Management System and its subsystems for the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chicago.

Responsibilities included:

- Setting up long term development roadmap of the projects.

- Perform peer code reviews, and contribute in constantly improving the development process.

- Mentoring junior developers.

- Planning and designing database schema for extending existing functionality and refactoring legacy code.

- Implementing new full-stack features after gathering requirements from the stakeholders.

- Implementing standard API interface for interaction with external systems.

- Optimizing legacy code and removing bottlenecks for increasing system performance.

- Running adhoc sql reports for administrators.

- Developing standard reporting functionality for Grant submissions and administrative workflows.

Played key role in Cancer Center achieve "Outstanding" score for National Cancer Institute re-designation as Comprehensive Cancer Center; making it among the select few in entire country.

Technologies used:

Ruby, Ruby on rails, Oracle db, Redis, React.

• Developed the mobile front-end of University of Cincinnati’s main website and real time shuttle tracking application using html/html5, css/css3, jQuery.
• Worked as a lead developer for new College of Medicine Scheduling system. Was responsible for entire look and feel along with the application layer of the project. Used jQuery extensively, along with a Coldfusion MVC framework (cfwheels). Also developed mobile port of the application using jQuery Mobile Framework.

Technologies used:

C#, asp.net mvc, Sql server, Coldfusion.

Awarded UGS (University Graduate Scholarship) at University of Cincinnati for graduate studies.

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