# Amit Kapoor

> Staff Engineer at Broadcom

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/amitkapoor

• Passionate and Detail-oriented engineering leader with comprehensive experience in software product definition, architecture, design, research & development, continuous monitoring & performance optimization, implementation, consulting, maintenance, and pre-sales
• Experience in a wide variety of roles (Staff Engineer, Technical Lead, Development Architect, Senior Engineer, Solution Architect, Product Manager)
• Extensive experience in leading design and development of Cloud Native Services & Components
• Hands on engineer specializing in Java, Spring Boot and competent in Go, Python and Scala
• Working experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Envoy Proxy
• Well-versed with Cloud Service Providers (AWS and Azure)
• Exposure to infrastructure provisioning & maintenance
• In-depth understanding of computer science fundamentals (Object-Oriented Design, Algorithm Design, Data Structures & Design Patterns) and applying them in real world problem solving
• Skilled in multi-threaded programming, parallel processing and distributed systems 
• Well-versed in Big Data Ingestion, Processing and Transformation
• Expertise in defining, designing and developing Interfaces/APIs
• Sound knowledge of Databases (SQL and NoSQL)
• Widespread experience in leading team of engineers and working closely with other stakeholders such as Product Management, Data Science, User Experience, QA, Production Support and Senior Executives
• Proven ability and willingness to mentor & groom less experienced engineers
• Strong experience in working closely with Data Scientists in designing & building data driven Analytics products & solutions
• Expertise in discussing/collecting functional requirements, translating them into technical design documents & finely granulated technical tasks
• Experience in seamlessly integrating multiple products/systems in a large and complex system landscape
• Experience working directly with customers and supporting activities such as pre-sales, implementation, production support
• Strong experience in evaluating new technologies, rapid prototyping, and advising senior leadership team on technological direction & the opportunities they present to product road map
• Years of experience in AGILE and iterative development
• Excellent communicator with ability to talk to a wide variety of audience at different levels of technical & business details
• BS in Computer Science

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Broadcom
Jan 2021 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States
I work on VMware Cloud on AWS, a hybrid cloud offering that brings VMware’s enterprise class Software-Defined Data Center software to AWS Cloud’s dedicated, elastic, bare-metal infrastructure, delivered as an on-demand service.

Specifically responsible for
- Leading design, development, continuous monitoring & performance optimization, and support for multiple services/components
- Promoting best practices and building/keeping tech stack optimized for business needs  
- Mentoring & grooming engineers
- Working & coordinating with various stakeholders such as Product Management, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Engineering teams in other locations

### Technical Lead @ PROS
Jan 2012 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Lead the design & development of several services and components in the next generation PROS Data Platform (which consists of services such as Data Ingress, Data Catalog, Compute, Data Flow/Pipeline, etc.)
• Built a custom Spark connector in Scala, which abstracts details such as underlying storage technology, data format, etc. and allows Data Scientists & Engineers to explore, transform and process big data easily
• Built Java libraries to allow easy consumption of Data Platform services by multiple application teams at PROS
• Built abstraction layers/APIs over several Azure services such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, etc to allow application teams at PROS to use these services in an easy, consistent and secure manner
• Automated the deployment, setup, & maintenance of several Azure services used by Data Platform
• Joined PROS through its acquisition of SignalDemand. As a senior member of the engineering team at SignalDemand, I was solely responsible for the architecture, design, development and maintenance of a highly scalable distributed computing platform that performs scientific calculations on terabytes of data in a short period of time. Often, I worked on rapid prototypes that help the company make strategic decisions

### Associate Development Architect @ SAP Labs U.S.
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Lead the design and development of major features of SAP Social Customer Engagement On Demand; specifically, product's integration with various Social Media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Klout
• Did a 6 month stint in Product Management team and was involved in activities such as market/competition research, requirement gathering & analysis, pre-sales activities, etc.
• Completely re-designed master data management for SAP Transportation Management. Also, took the initiative to learn a new UI framework, and later coached team members on it
• Helped SAP consultants and customers implement/customize the product by providing technical and functional expertise

### Senior Software Engineer @ SAP Labs U.S.
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Joined a newly setup team of five engineers, quickly learned all aspects of the product and started actively contributing in a month
• In 6 months, chosen to lead the team in spite of being the least experienced member
• Introduced peer code reviews to improve quality of the product

### Software Engineer @ NIIT Technologies Limited
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 | Bangalore, India
• Worked at the client site (IBM Global Services, India) in a very fast paced environment
• Initial responsibility was to support business users in US and Europe by resolving issues/ bugs as per service level agreements. 
• In a few months, took on the additional responsibility to do requirement analysis, design and development of new features in the application


## Education
### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science
College of Engineering Roorkee


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/amit-kapoor-a6a3a415
- Portfolio: http://kapooramit7.blogspot.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-12