# Amit Chahar > Actively Seeking Software Engineer Opportunities | Software Engineer @ Snapchat | Ex-Amazon | CMU Alumnus Location: Greater Seattle Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/amitchahar I am a Staff Software Engineer with 9 years of experience in Full-stack development. I have extensive knowledge in developing micro-services using AWS tools such as DynamoDB, Lambda, infrastructure as code through CloudFormation and Cloud Development Kit (CDK), SQS, Step functions, Cloudwatch, QLDB, Kubernetes, Elastic Container Service (ECS), Elastic Container Registery (ECR), S3, SNS, CloudFront, Kinesis, Redshift, AWS Config, data pipeline and Key Management Service (KMS). I've designed several complex systems in Java, Python, GoLang, C/C++, Node.js and Android. Implemented UI using javascript/typescript along with supporting libraries such as Bootstrap, jQuery, Ajax and JSP. In my current role at Snap, I have created systems that support a large user base and high TPS (transactions per second). I'm always on the lookout to improve our system and reduce the Ops load. I also like to mentor new hires through 1:1 guidance and discussing best practices with them. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Snap Inc. Jan 2022 – Present | Seattle, WA *Working as a tech lead for Snap information security and platform integrity ### Senior Software Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area * Working as a Full-stack developer primarily on Java and Python for Amazon Business pricing. * Have gained extensive knowledge of micro-servies development using native AWS tools like DynamoDB, Lambda, infrastructure as code through CloudFormation and Cloud Development Kit (CDK), SQS, Step functions, Cloudwatch, QLDB, Kubernetes, Elastic Container Service (ECS), Elastic Container Registery (ECR), S3, SNS, CloudFront, Kinesis, Redshift, AWS Config, data pipeline and Key Management Service (KMS). * Developed infrastructure using AWS to deploy machine learning models to optimize discounts on more than 1 million ASINs * Implemented APIs to publish discounts on Amazon Business website which handles 250 calls per second. * Created, maintained and utilized data warehouse using Apache Spark * Developed internal tool (including UI) to ease discount publishing for internal stake holders * Designed solution to handle multi-currency cases in EU marketplaces. * Designed and implemented a migration plan to move legacy systems to completely use AWS technologies. ### Software Engineer @ Unknown Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater Pittsburgh Region ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Teaching Assistant of Introduction to Deep Learning course (11-785) ### Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Pittsburgh Area Research assistant at Synergy Labs at CMU ### Software Engineer Intern @ Amazon Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area Worked in Amazon business pricing team. ### Software Engineer @ Wispero Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Bengaluru Area, India Developed security product to monitor, analyze and manage wireless IoT networks based on BLE, ZigBee and LoRa. Product included monitoring the network using different types of hardware scanners or agents deployed on the network edge, edge computing to aggregate data, streaming data to cloud using secure end-to-end encrypted pub-sub mechanism, analysing the data to find vulnerabilities, device behaviour anomalies and possible attacks using machine learning, anonymizing the traffic data for storage and future usage in machine learning algorithms, generating reports which can be viewed on a web-app or a mobile app, by the network admin. Also, implemented a firmware upgrade service to remotely upgrade the firmware of vulnerable devices. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Wispero Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Bengaluru Designed and developed a Bluetooth IoT network management solution which provides visibility into the network, shows the location of gateways and IoT devices, sniffs the Bluetooth data in the surroundings, analyze the data and shows a report to the user which included types, count, origin and destination of packets in the traffic using various graphs. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Commvault Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater Hyderabad Area Developed big data analytics tool to analyze the logs generated from a distributed backup system, using SQL-like query syntax. Advanced features included faceted browsing and pagination of the query results to decrease the response time. Developed the tool in Java with Apache Solr in the backend. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Calsoft Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Pune Contributed to open source hypervisor management library - Libvirt – by adding docker container management support to it. New API supported all docker commands and developed a GUI to test its functions. ### Teaching Assistant @ Army Institute of Technology Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Pune Area, India Taught programming skills and algorithms to first-year students. ## Education ### Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 ### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Engineering Army Institute of Technology, Pune Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/amit-chahar --- Source: https://flows.cv/amitchahar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/amitchahar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22