Amit Tomar

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 9 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • 18+ years of experience in software development leadership.
  • Expert in transitioning legacy systems to modern platforms.
  • Proven ability to drive AI strategy and execution.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a FinTech and EdTech architect with extensive experience in scalable systems and AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipData-driven Decision MakingTeam LeadershipGenerative AiArchitectural DesignSystem PerformanceFinancial ApplicationsBusiness Process Re-engineeringTalent Management

Other Skills

A/B TestingAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsApache KafkaApache SparkBanking SoftwareBuild Strong RelationshipsCassandraChange ManagementCloud ComputingCommunicationCore DataCore JavaCustomer Data

About

Accomplished Software Development Leader with 18+ years of experience in architecting and delivering scalable, reliable solutions across diverse domains: FinTech, EdTech, Investment banking, Messaging and Marketing Automation(Email, SMS, PUSH) Drive technology Data and AI strategy, planning and execution across matrix organizations to consistently deliver results. Expert in transitioning legacy systems to modern horizontally scalable distributed Platform. Proven ability to bridge business and Technology to drive outcomes with Strategic goals. Develop best in class talent & enable results by creating high performing teams focusing on culture, professional development and bias for execution.

Experience

18 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
2 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Paytm

2 roles

Senior Director of Engineering

Promoted

Aug 2025Present · 10 mos

Director of Engineering

Oct 2023Jul 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Spearheaded AI-driven transformation of platform development workflows, implementing advanced code review pipelines with tools like Cursor and Devin AI. Achieved 30% faster development velocity and 40% cost reduction. Scaled AI-powered coding assistants across teams while maintaining robust quality and security standards, leading to enhanced developer productivity and code quality.
Data-driven Decision MakingSystem PerformanceReliabilityStrategic HiringLarge-scale Data AnalysisTechnical Leadership+36

Stealth startup

Co-Founder

Mar 2023Aug 2023 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

System PerformanceResearch SkillsCommunicationNegotiationAnalytical SkillsStrategic Vision+7

Verse innovation

Senior Architect

Oct 2021Nov 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Architect the Josh Platform, The Aim is to improve the App recommendation platform capability for Data scientists to run quick experiments and improve by continuous feedback loop.
  • Spearhead the development of a contextual bandit framework, used content-based filtering for cold start and use Temporal difference learning(Q off policy) for control groups, LTV optimization, resulting in roughly 20 % increase in CTR and 7% improved LTV.
Change ManagementData-driven Decision MakingArchitectural DesignSystem PerformanceReliabilityStrategic Hiring+41

Societe generale global solution centre

Architect / Manager - Development Chapter

Jan 2017Sep 2021 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore · Hybrid

  • Data Engineering | Big Data | Data Science | Rest APIData Engineering | Data science | Big Data | Data Science | Rest API
  • Lead Data driven engineering using Hadoop, apache Spark, Data pipelines using Lambda Architecture. Building real time data pipeline, Running algorithm (Predictive analytics, Classification, Random Forest, feature Engineering, Dimensionality reduction, Unsupervised learning and Neural Network and Deep learning) on collected data and distribute final data using REST. The idea was to build an inhouse Trade monitoring/surveillance system which target to save a cost of 5 -10million $ annually.
Change ManagementData-driven Decision MakingArchitectural DesignSystem PerformanceReliabilityStrategic Hiring+41

Nimbuzz messenger

2 roles

Principal Architect

Promoted

Apr 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurgaon

  • Design and Build a platform for global phone directory from scratch(holaa). The application we build are designed on micro service design approach. Responsibility includes Requirement gathering, Break the complex business requirement into small component or micro services,Evaluation of new technology stack, Provide HLD to engineers and sample code if required.
  • Principle SRE role, Planning, coordination and execution of software / application / tool upgrades, patch and fix packs installation. Risk evaluation and mitigation planning.Evaluation of new technologies, POC, Requirement gathering and map complex requirement to simple code for Engineers.
Change ManagementData-driven Decision MakingArchitectural DesignSystem PerformanceReliabilityStrategic Hiring+29

Principle Engineer

Aug 2013Mar 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Gurgaon

  • Responsible for writing new service as well as provide the design for the team members. Used message queue for asynchronous data transfer.
  • Thoroughly work on Cassandra data model and well as performance tuning.
  • Build Data ingestion pipeline using kafka for user actions into Hadoop and run analytical jobs in apache Spark to provide interactive dashboard using tablue .
  • Working on popular Nimbuzz xmpp based messenger that handles huge traffic for millions of users worldwide.
Data-driven Decision MakingArchitectural DesignSystem PerformanceTroubleshootingReliabilityStrategic Hiring+13

One97 communications limited

Tech Lead

May 2011Aug 2013 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Noida

  • Working as Tech lead in VAS domain. Redesign global VAS subscription and renewal platform. Leading to handle 10x traffic smoothly with cost saving benefits of 50%.
Architectural DesignSystem PerformanceTroubleshootingTechnical RequirementsProduction SystemsResource Allocation+6

Sapient

Senior associate L1 Platform

Aug 2010May 2011 · 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Working with multiple geography teams on Performance attribution system. Its a big monolith application works in batch mode to compute and compute why a portfolio's performance differed from the benchmark and compute active returns. Build features in Performance attribution system. Improve performance of multiple functions by 50%, resulting better user experience.
System PerformanceTroubleshootingTechnical RequirementsFinancial ApplicationsPerformance MetricsFinancial Systems

Mps technologies

Software Engineer

Oct 2009Jul 2010 · 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Feature development and enhancement of existing service. Improving system performance is key for public website. Part of Agile Team and work with teams in multiple geography.

Newgen software

Software Engineer

Oct 2006Oct 2009 · 3 yrs · Delhi

  • Product Development.
  • Communicate with Customer Representative via oral and written communications including Presentations/Demo.
  • Delivering and implementing the project as per scheduled deadlines and extending post-implementation maintenance and support to the technical support team and client.
  • Heavy concentration on Development tasks
Business Process Re-engineeringTalent ManagementJavaScriptBanking Software

Education

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University

Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) — Information Technology

Jan 2002Jan 2005

CCS (Chaudhary Charan Singh)University

Bachelor of Science

Jan 1999Jan 2002

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