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Amit Saxena

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Hyderabad, Telangana, India23 yrs 7 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of experience in technology leadership.
  • Expert in cloud-native and scalable system architectures.
  • Proven track record in fraud prevention and financial systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a technology leader with expertise in AI, Fintech, and SaaS.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud-native SolutionsDevopsFraud PreventionCloud ComputingMicroservices ArchitectureMobile ApplicationsSoftware ArchitectureSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

.NET3D applicationsASP.NETAWSAgentic AIAgile MethodologiesAndroid DevelopmentBusiness AnalysisBusiness StrategyCC#C++Customer Relationship Management (CRM)Data StructuresDatabases

About

🚀 About Forward-thinking technology leader with 20+ years of experience driving innovation, architecting scalable systems, and leading world-class engineering teams. I specialize in turning ideas into impactful products—across enterprise platforms, mobile, IoT, and cloud. 🔧 Technical Breadth Built and scaled 100+ mobile apps across Android, iOS, and Windows platforms Deep expertise in distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and real-time data pipelines using Kafka, Spark, HDFS, and MongoDB Delivered cloud-native, highly available infrastructures on AWS, integrating ML, Blockchain, and modern DevOps practices 👨‍💼 Leadership Philosophy Proven ability to scale engineering orgs from scratch—hiring, mentoring, and aligning teams with business goals Extensive experience leading V1 product development, from ideation to launch Known for bridging tech and business: translating high-level vision into product and architectural roadmaps 🎓 Background M.Tech in Information Technology from IIT Roorkee Career built across product-led companies, with a strong foundation in hands-on development and system design Now looking to drive innovation at the C-suite level—leading technology strategy, building exceptional teams, and delivering platforms that move the needle.

Experience

Microsoft

3 roles

Principal Software Engineering Manager - Planner / Teams

Promoted

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Spearheaded innovation initiatives around Agentic AI and Multi-Agent Runtime Systems, designing modular AI agents capable of autonomous collaboration and reasoning across complex workflows
  • Led cross-functional engineering teams to deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions in high-stakes production environments, directly impacting millions of users
  • Collaborated across product, design, and executive leadership to drive end-to-end delivery of V1 initiatives and new platform capabilities
  • Championed engineering excellence through clean architecture, DevOps maturity, and measurable quality and velocity metrics
Agentic AIMulti-Agent Runtime Systemscloud-native solutionsDevOps

Principal Software Engineering Manager - Office Voice

Oct 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr

  • Worked as Engineering Manager in Office Natural User Interfaces Group and owning the end-to-end Transcription experience across Office apps.

Principal Engineering Manager - Tasks and Intelligence

Jan 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Worked as Engineering Manager in Microsoft Tasks and Intelligence Group and handled Mobile development (Microsoft To-Do endpoints for Android, iOS, Mac).
  • Microsoft To Do is a task management app to help you stay organized and manage your day-to-day. You can use Microsoft To Do to make shopping lists or task lists, take notes, record collections, plan an event, or set reminders to increase your productivity and focus on what matters to you. Microsoft To Do makes it easy to stay organized and manage your life.

Advarisk

Head Of Technology

Aug 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Pune Area, India

  • We, at AdvaRisk, have a vision of making a significant contribution to nation-building. For a fast-paced and overall economic growth of a country, a strong and stable financial system is a key. And this ideology drives us to build solutions for preventing and fighting financial frauds.
  • A young, dynamic & fast growing startup that we are, our track record shows we are here to transform fraud prevention and forensic analysis
  • #We have enabled 11 + financial institutions to recover banking exposure of worth ~Rs 5000 crores
  • #We are the 1st Start-up to be empanelled the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) to investigate frauds
  • # We identified and reported a critical vulnerability in one of the websites of the Ministry of Finance which prevented a major financial and reputation loss to the Government of India
  • Everyone at AdvaRisk is proud to have #ThoughtForIndia and #MadeInIndia.
fraud preventionforensic analysisfinancial systems

Iris business services limited

Vice President Of Engineering

Jan 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • IRIS GST, suite of applications, built with a highly scalable, available and secure architecture, that helps businesses to file monthly returns with GST, right from registration to return preparation, through to submission. It helps businesses to create and maintain e-way bills in real time. It helps lenders to view taxpayers return data for loan disbursement.
  • Application Conceptualization and Architecture to meet the current and future requirements.
  • Evangelized Design using Kafka, Mongo DB, HDFS on AWS Cloud
  • Implemented Microservices architecture using Spring Boot, Java
  • Established a well-defined DevOps Process through automation, CD-CI pipeline with Prerequisite and Post Release sanity testing, reducing post release failure
  • Oversaw the AWS setup and deployment of the application, following Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
  • Managed a team of 30+ members of specialized developers and QA personals
  • Managing Partners and Vendors for technological needs
  • Stakeholder Communication, Customer Interaction, Sr. Management Interactions
AWSMicroservicesKafkaMongoDBHDFScloud computing+1

Bluebird apps

Founder, Entrepreneur, Contractor, Freelancer

Mar 2013 – Dec 2016 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • As entrepreneur, worked as independent developer in mobile space and taking end to end responsibility from idea generation and conceptualization to marketing and customer interaction. Developed 50+ android, windows phone, and iOS applications in various domains including healthcare, gaming, education with more than 100K downloads from various app stores.
  • As Founder, also worked on building products for B2B and B2C segments.
  • WRITUM – A platform for aspiring writers
  • BELO – A platform for teacher-parents communication, class and student’s activity management, an integrated web, android/iOS solution.
  • As Contractor/Freelancer, worked with multiple companies/products in various domains responsible for Architecting, Designing and building the MVP version within the timeframe as well as building the tech team for sustenance and further development. Few of them includes:
  • Grasp IO Innovations Labs (P) Limited – CTO
  • ActoVoice Inc – as Solution Architect
  • MiCar Sharing (P) Limited – as Engineering Manager
  • Vicinage Networks (P) Limited – Myolo – as Solution Architect
  • Fly with VIP Online (P) Limited – as Android and iOS Developer
  • Cloud Computing Tech Solutions (P) Limited – as Vice President (Engineering)
mobile developmentcustomer interactionMVP developmentmobile applications

Core education & technologies limited

Architect / Head of Research & CoE

Sep 2011 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • As Head of the Center of Excellence (CoE) group, responsibilities included evaluation of technological education market and innovations, identifying potential (futuristic) technology areas to be explored from business perspective, competitor’s product analysis, technological trainings and management of organizational technical knowledge repository. It also includes maintenance and Development of new 3D Applications (CAVE)
  • As Architect and single point contact for all technical problems and decisions in software development and responsible for high level architecture and design for all new developments as well as enhancements for old products. There are multiple projects involved just to name a few:
  • BRIGHTIDEA – Web Based solution for specialized education
  • IDA – Application for Item Development for Question Banks
  • EDMASTERY – Online Learning and Assessment Solution
  • ASSESSMENT CENTRE – Online Assessment Solution
  • CORE CAMPUS – School Management System
technology evaluationsoftware architecture3D applications

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

May 2005 – Sep 2011 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Architecture, Design and Development of features for Windows including:-
  • â—Ź Windows Server 2012– HYPER-V
  • â—Ź Windows 8 – Windows Virtual PC
  • â—Ź Windows 7 – Windows XP Mode for Windows 7
  • â—Ź Windows 7 – Windows Virtual PC
  • â—Ź Windows Vista - WTT (Windows Test Technologies)
Windows architecturesoftware developmentsoftware engineering

Dell

Software Developer

Mar 2003 – May 2005 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Design and Development of products including :
  • Tenet.NET LOH for Tenet Health Care Corporation – USA
  • Tenant Pro – 7.0 for Property Automation Solutions Corporation – USA
  • Founding member of .NET Competency Group at very early stage
product designsoftware development

Cdac

Software Engineer

Jul 2002 – Mar 2003 · 8 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Development of Loan Accounting System and MIS for NSFDC under Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, C-DAC NOIDA

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Master of Technology (M.Tech.) — Information Technology

Jan 2001 – Jan 2002

Kanpur University, India

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Electronics and Communication

Jan 1997 – Jan 2001

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