Amrit Sarkar

CTO

Seattle, Washington, United States10 yrs 6 mos experience
AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building distributed systems and search technologies.
  • Significant contributions to open-source projects like Apache Solr and Kafka.
  • Strong background in AI/ML frameworks and cloud solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI/ML expert with a focus on distributed systems and search technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningAiKafkaAwsApache SolrDistributed SystemsInformation RetrievalSaasKubernetesCloud ServicesLuceneSolrJavaComputer VisionOpencv

Other Skills

AJAXAlgorithmsApache SparkCC (Programming Language)CSSCloud ArchitectureCustomer SupportData ProcessingFramework DevelopmentHTMLHTML scriptingJSONJSPJavaScript

About

Interested and experienced in developing robust search and distributed systems on cloud platforms. Keep looking for challenging opportunities which allow me to use my skills to make a difference.

Experience

10 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs
Current Experience

Salesforce

Lead Member of Technical Staff - Monitoring Cloud

Jun 2024Present · 2 yrs · Bellevue, WA · Hybrid

Apple

3 roles

Senior Software Engineer - AI/ML Platforms

Feb 2023Feb 2024 · 1 yr

  • ML model training and evaluations frameworks supporting Apple-wide Generative AI initiatives, including Apple Intelligence.

Senior Software Engineer - AI/ML Platforms

Jul 2022Feb 2023 · 7 mos

  • ML model training and evaluations frameworks supporting Apple-wide Generative AI initiatives, including Apple Intelligence.

Senior Software Engineer - Big Data Reliability, IS&T

Jul 2021Jul 2022 · 1 yr

  • Design and Build framework arounds Observability for Kafka Pipelines at Scale.
  • Migrated observability stack of Hadoop ecosystem from VMs to AWS EKS clusters.

Tata cliq

Engineering Manager | Search Architect

Nov 2020Jul 2021 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Design and build high-volume, low-latency, and multi-threaded distributed services.
  • Improve Search & Discovery by adopting modern techniques based on Information Retrieval (Apache Lucene & Solr) and Machine Learning (NER, SVM, etc).
  • Build Search product, outside of SAP Hybris, and collaborate with other leaders in technology to build a new microservice technology stack.
  • Build, manage and mentor a team of 10+ engineers.

Lucidworks

3 roles

Engineer - Cloud Operations

Aug 2020Nov 2020 · 3 mos

  • • Design, architect, build and test critical aspects of the SaaS offering service on top of Lucidworks Fusion and Kubernetes that runs on public clouds and supports multiple search use-cases.

Engineer - Managed Search Product

Jan 2019Jul 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Design, build and test critical aspects of the Managed Search - Apache Solr service that runs on public clouds and supports multiple search use-cases
  • Identify, execute and test optimizations related to specific search use-cases
  • Port optimizations and bug fixes from the Apache Lucene/Solr community to the managed Solr clusters
  • Contribute to Apache Lucene/Solr with new features, enhancements and bug fixes
  • Document architecture, low-level design decisions and tradeoffs

Engineer - Customer Team

Aug 2016Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Resolve complex search issues in and around the Lucene/Solr ecosystem
  • Provide expert-level support services to a wide range of customers with varying degrees of technical knowledge
  • Reproduce product issues and open bugs to work in collaboration with our engineering team to provide timely solutions to our customers
  • Document case solutions into knowledge base articles that are later available to our customer base in our knowledge center
  • Communicate high-value use cases and customer feedback to our Product Development and Engineering teams

The apache software foundation

Open Source Contributor (Solr & Kafka)

Feb 2017Jan 2024 · 6 yrs 11 mos

  • 30+ open-source patches, including features such as Atomic Updates, Cross Data Center Replication, Highlighting in Apache Solr and Apache Kafka.

Snapdeal

Software Engineer - I | Search

Jul 2015Jul 2016 · 1 yr · Gurgaon, India

  • Business Requirements​​: Involved in designing and developing features and applications in Search-Tech team using technologies like ​Apache Solr, Apache Kafka, Aerospike, ActiveMQ and Spring, MVC framework, Hibernate in Java ​
  • Data Analysis and Processing​: Crunching, extracting and processing valuable information from logs. Created common framework in ​Java using Apache Spark for all Big Data requirements in the team. Have ​processed data for around 40million products​
  • ​Collaborated with colleagues within the team and outside, team lead, product managers at various levels to provide high end products and services in quick time.

Central salt & marine chemicals research institute

Research Fellow, IISc-NIAS Summer Fellowship

Mar 2014Aug 2014 · 5 mos · Bhavnagar, Gujrat, India

  • Three tasks completed during summer internship at CSMCRI, Bhavnagar, Gujrat under the entitled project: Human Activity and Behaviour Recognition in Videos which are listed below:
  • 1. Literature survey of the Project title
  • The overall process, old and modern techniques in human activity and behaviour recognition in videos was thoroughly studied. Around 100 research papers, YouTube videos and independent websites regarding machine learning were watched and studied and foundation for further study was set up.
  • 2. Prepare a survey report: Human Activity and Behaviour Recognition in Videos: A Brief Review
  • Based on the Literature survey, a 12 page Survey report on the Project title was made. The originality of the paper was verified by the guide, Mr Sandipkumar Maganlal Vaniya along with his guidance and support in the completion of the paper.
  • 3. Development phase: Computer Vision applications in Visual Basic 2012 with OpenCV C++
  • Some of the techniques studied were built as Windows applications like Object Tracking and Detection.

Education

National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra

Bachelor's degree — Information Technology

Jan 2011Jan 2015

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