Amit Tripathi

Software Engineer

New York, New York, United States9 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Engineered petabyte-scale observability systems at AWS.
Led backend development for innovative AI-powered services.
Achieved significant cost savings through infrastructure optimization.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer specializing in SaaS and distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingDistributed SystemsSoftware ObservabilitySoftware DevelopmentBackend EngineeringData EngineeringBig Data

Other Skills

CloudWatch Log DeliveryAPI DevelopmentData StorageObservabilityProducer-Consumer InfrastructureKubernetesGCPData IntegrationBackend DevelopmentA/B TestingWeb AnalyticsBig Data ToolsData PipelinesWeb CrawlersApache Kafka

About

I'm a backend and platform engineer specializing in building and scaling resilient, petabyte-scale cloud services. At AWS, I engineer critical observability systems. I work on the core CloudWatch Log Vended Delivery service, ensuring reliable service for petabyte-scale data streams for millions of AWS customers. I also lead the backend development for new product initiatives, including development of the APIs and infrastructure for the CloudWatch GenAI Investigations service that launched at re:Invent 2024. I am passionate about solving complex distributed systems problems and leading my team to success.

Experience

9 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Amazon web services (aws)

2 roles

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2025 – Present · 10 mos

Software Development Engineer

Feb 2020 – Jul 2025 · 5 yrs 5 mos

Designed and worked on petabyte-scale CloudWatch Log Delivery service critical to AWS customers
Maintained globally distributed service with 99.99% uptime for millions of AWS customers
Saved $15M annually and eliminated scaling bottlenecks by re-architecting data storage & parsing, driving a 92% reduction in peak disk usage and 30% CPU usage reduction across 10,000+ EC2 hosts
Owned the APIs and infrastructure for CloudWatch Investigations, a Generative AI-powered observability assistant launched at AWS re:Invent 2024
Mentored multiple SDEs and interns, contributing to their successful promotions and full-time hire

CloudWatch Log DeliveryDistributed SystemsAPI DevelopmentData StorageObservabilityCloud Computing

Takealot.com

Software Engineer III

Apr 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Architected and implemented a new producer-consumer infrastructure to replace a legacy SFTP-based system, making third-party data integrations significantly faster and more reliable
Developed async, multithreaded client to migrate plaintext passwords to HashiCorp Vault, using Kubernetes and GCP's KMS for authentication
Contributed to the migration from a self-managed K8S cluster to Google Cloud (GCP)

Producer-Consumer InfrastructureKubernetesGCPData IntegrationCloud ComputingDistributed Systems

Wingify

Software Engineer

Jan 2017 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Delhi Area

Contributed to the backend of the VWO, a a/b testing and web analytics platform
Worked on VWO's pricing platform, and built a new monitoring setup for the payment gateway using StatsD and Grafana
Developed a new cron management framework to improve the scheduling, reliability, and management of internal automated jobs.

Backend DevelopmentA/B TestingWeb AnalyticsSoftware DevelopmentBackend Engineering

Innovaccer

2 roles

Software Development Engineer

May 2016 – Jan 2017 · 8 mos

Developed data pipelines using big data tools, including Spark, HDFS, and Cassandra, gaining early career experience with large-scale data services
Wrote web crawlers

Big Data ToolsData PipelinesWeb CrawlersData EngineeringBig Data