Amit Tripathi
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Amit Tripathi +27-0724172904 | mail2amit19@gmail.com | kakku.org
OVERVIEW
  • 4+ years of experience working on real-world software with multiple tech stacks.
  • I have a very good understanding of systems, datastores, REST APIs, and Kubernetes.
  • Contributed to multiple open-source projects.
EXPERIENCE
Software Development Engineer II Feb, 2020 - Present
Amazon Web Services, Cape Town(SA)
  • Working on highly available and scalable services.
Software Engineer Apr, 2018 - Jan, 2020
Takealot, Cape Town(SA)
  • Designed & rewrote a major portion of all 3rd party interaction for the warehouse team.
  • Remodeled the 3rd party interaction using a distributed system model with Kafka consumer/producer & web services, this made the system fast & reliable.
  • Site Reliability Engineer(Feb, 2019 - Jan, 2020)
    • Wrote an async "Vault" credential management client to be used by applications to move all plain text passwords to Vault.
    • Worked on migrating in-house Elasticsearch data to Google cloud.
    • Worked on various parts of Google cloud migration from the self-managed Kubernetes cluster.
Software Engineer Feb, 2017 - Apr, 2018
Wingify, Delhi(IN)
  • Created a micro-service to store streaming customer actions.
  • Wrote a cron management framework that made the cron scheduling and management easier.
  • Created a payment gateway monitoring setup using stated, grafana.
  • Worked on various part of the backend of Wingify’s product "VWO" and the pricing platform.
Software Engineer(Internship and full time) Feb, 2016 - Jan, 2017
Innovaccer
  • Developed a web app for remote R code execution. This product allows asynchronous code execution of R code.
  • Worked on web backend of Data Quality Tool. Which helped analyse and clean millions of rows of data. Used HDFS as the data storage backend.
  • Developed REST APIs using Python Django framework and Scala Play framework.
  • Automated website crawling and document parsing.
Software Engineer, Intern Aug, 2015 - Oct, 2015
Claymotion
  • Collected 10k positive and negative reviews training and testing dataset from the top-100 android app.
  • Created the module using Python's NLTK library to predict user opinion sentiment with ~75% accuracy.
  • Built Mongo database of 500k app's data ranked by their category and top chart rankings.
  • Developed a REST API on this module to show apps performance, using reviews, week-over-week.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology 2012 - 2016

Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India

PROJECTS
Pygmy
Pygmy
Open-source URL shortener with link analytics & user dashboard

Authored a famous open-source URL shortener web app pygy.co

  • URL shortener with custom links, time-based expiry and secret links
  • Link analytics(by adding + to URL) like country, referrer and datewise clicks
  • User dashboard. User access through JWT token based authentication
  • Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases
  • Docker and docker-compose support
  • Used Django for UI rendering, Flask for REST API on top of the core module, SQLAlchemy as ORM
 
Pygmy
Codebuddy
Real time code and document editor

CodeBuddy is a real time code and document collaboration web app. It can be used for real-time collaboration. Live version: Codebuddy

  • Uses sockets for real-time text streaming to two clients
  • Offers a synced codepad, text paste to share text
  • Technology used Flask for API, Fask-socketio for real-time collaboration, Javascript, Jquery, Bootstrap, CSS, HTML
 
Pygmy
Music Recommendation App
An Android music player app with personalised music recommendation

Music app with personalised music recommendation for the users. Collaborative item-based & user-based music recommendation. Technology: Java, Python, MongoDB, Framework: Flask, XML.d
 
SKILLS
Languages: Python Go Scala(working experience) PHP(working experience)
Datastores: MySQL Redis Kafka Elasticsearch Mongo PostgreSQL
Web Frameworks: Flask Django Django-rest Pyramid
Others: Kubernetes Docker Helm Docker-compose
OPEN SOURCE
  • Contributed to py-evm(Python Ethereum Implementation). Added REPL support. Pull Request
  • Contributed patches to GNU Mailman. Fixed issues in mailman core engine. Pull requests
  • Donated calculation codes to local master's students to complete quantitative analysis for their research paper.
ACHIEVEMENTS
INTERESTS

Travelling, Hiking, Mountaineering, Rock Climbing and Running

Technical: Distributed Systems, Containers, System Design, Web, Open Source