Amit Jain
@amitjain3
Cloud-focused Director of Software Engineering driving AI, migrations, and scalable SaaS platforms.
What I'm looking for
I am a cloud and AI-focused technology leader with extensive experience directing global engineering teams, scaling architectures, and delivering SaaS products. I have led large cloud migrations and GenAI initiatives, driving $20M in revenue impact and $1M in operational savings through modernizations and optimizations.
My hands-on approach spans microservices, event-driven systems, and high-throughput platforms (1,000+ TPS), while building and mentoring teams (10–90+ engineers) across US, Europe and APAC. I combine strategic stakeholder engagement with technical execution to deliver zero-downtime architectures, observability, and cost-optimized cloud solutions.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Lead a 70–90 engineering organization to integrate Generative AI/LLMs into in-car voice assistants, drive legacy-to-cloud migrations, and deliver ~$10M annual revenue while achieving ~$0.5M annual OpEx savings.
Owned lifecycle and architecture of the UBX billing platform, led a 30+ engineering team, and designed prepaid wallet services handling up to 1000 RPS while improving operational readiness and SLAs.
Vice President, Engineering
Deutsche Bank
Sep 2020 - Mar 2022 (1 year 6 months)
Led a 20–30 person team to migrate Trade Finance/FSCM products to GCP, build cloud-native POS-ready solutions, and improve product scalability and modularity via the AXIOM framework.
Senior Technical Architect
Pitney Bowes
May 2017 - Sep 2020 (3 years 4 months)
Architected migration of a monolith to microservices on AWS, segregated 100+ services, and engineered event-driven pipelines to support 800+ TPS while optimizing cost and reliability.
Co-Founder & CTO
Adclever
Jun 2016 - May 2017 (11 months)
Co-founded a digital advertising startup, built the MVP and product roadmap using MEAN stack, led early hiring and product-market validation.
Technical Manager / Architect
Synerzip
Feb 2007 - Jul 2016 (9 years 5 months)
Led development and weekly rollouts of a distributed pharmacy enterprise system across 500+ sites, ensured HIPAA compliance, and managed high-availability, multi-threaded Java applications.
Team Member (Associate)
Aftek Infosys
Apr 2006 - Apr 2007 (1 year)
Contributed to the SEPA pay-for-performance advertising platform, implementing ad serving, matching and ranking components using Java and related enterprise technologies.
Software Engineer
C-Sam Technologies
Sep 2005 - Mar 2006 (6 months)
Developed mobile transaction platform features for Jet Airways, integrating secure transaction workflows and mobile delivery using Java, Struts and web services.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
IIT Madras
Advanced Certification in Data Science & AI, Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
2024 -
Pursuing an Advanced Certification in Data Science & AI from June 2024 at IIT Madras.
M.B.M. Engineering College, Jodhpur, J.N.V. University
Master of Computer Applications, Computer Applications
Completed a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) program at M.B.M. Engineering College affiliated with J.N.V. University, focusing on advanced software and systems topics.
S.M.C. College, Abu Road, M.L.S. University, Udaipur
Bachelor of Science, Science
Completed a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) program at S.M.C. College affiliated with M.L.S. University, covering foundational science and computing coursework.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Chargebee
JFreeChart
Google Cloud Platform
Bitbucket
Kubernetes
Jenkins
F5
DB
MySQL
MongoDB
Hadoop
Gmail
Spring Boot
Spring Framework
Spring MVC
Redis
Jira
Bugzilla
Apache Ant
Java 8
JavaScript
Java
XML
Logstash
Log4j
Kafka
XMPP
Grafana
Kibana
Prometheus
Debian
Linux
Windows
Apache Camel
Oracle PL/SQL
gRPC
Elasticsearch
Spring Security
Ansible
Apache Storm
JUnit
DbUnit
SQL
ServiceNow
OpsGenie
Refine
Port
Verse
Axiom
Dynatrace
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Job categories
Skills
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