# Amit Mittal > Senior Engineering Manager at Yext | Ex-Microsoft | IIT Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/amitmittal I love to create great software to solve problems ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineering Manager @ Yext Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area - Leveraging AI for boosting developer productivity - Improving Data Science Platform - Modernizing internal stack: Recently, migrated thousands of microservices across multiple languages from internal RPC to gRPC ### Software Engineering Manager @ Yext Jan 2022 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area - Built a new team to improve core frameworks and common internal libraries across Java and Go and give engineers a consistent experience - Led and successfully containerized thousands of microservices across tens of deployment sites within a span of a few weeks - Cut down build times in our CI platform by >80% and local build times by >50% ### Senior Software Engineer @ Yext Jan 2021 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area Tech Lead, Developer Productivity ### Software Engineer @ Yext Jan 2020 – Present | New York, United States ### Software Engineer @ Pulse Labs Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area Pulse Labs is the premier user research, measurement, and analytics solution for developers, designers, and platforms creating the next generation of human-computer interfaces. - Developed a real-time analytics platform from scratch which collects data from globally distributed nodes. This is used to analyze millions of smart speaker interactions. - Built a self-serve platform that improved the efficiency of the operations team by 5x. Worked with operations and UX designers to implement solutions to a variety of problems. - Built a research panel of thousands of Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant users to fuel voice research and improve the voice ecosystem. Achieved panel growth through growth hacking techniques like A/B testing, data analytics, product virality, branding, channel partnerships ### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Hyderabad Area, India Core member of Azure Tenant Deployment Performance and Reliability (TDPR) Team: - Re-designed the provisioning workflow of Windows and Linux VMs E-E which helped to scale - Worked on the Host-Node components to expose workload-specialized VM SKUs (Ephemeral Disks, Passthrough Disks) - Co-architect of the new Azure Maintenance Plane Ephemeral Disks: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/ephemeral-os-disks ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Hyderabad Area, India Worked in Microsoft Azure Compute (PaaS) team. - Proposed design to optimize the time it takes to bring up a new Azure Data Center. Helps in saving millions of dollars for the company every year. - Worked on the Azure Deployment Plane which was used for patching millions of Azure Cloud Services for zero-day vulnerabilities like WannaCry, Spectre, Meltdown safely. ### Software Developer Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Hyderabad Area, India • Worked on the migration story for on-premise Microsoft BizTalk Server customers to Microsoft Azure cloud. • Developed a Visual Studio extension which migrates the connectors (HTTP, SOAP, FTP, SMTP, Facebook, Twilio, etc.) written using Microsoft BizTalk Server framework to Azure BizTalk Services seamlessly avoiding any rewrite by the customer. ### Full Stack Developer @ Aforprice Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 Aforprice is US based Comparison Shopping Engine startup. Worked on E-E scenarios across full stack. • Smart scraping of more than 20 shopping platform to serve latest prices to our customers • Worked on delivering the highly distributed and scalable backend which can serve client requests in few milliseconds • Leveraged opensource projects for delivering search client and data visualization library to our customers ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ### Physics in Chemistry, Mathematics Vidyamandir Classes Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 ### High School D.L.D.A.V. Model School, Pitampura Jan 1998 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/theamitmittal --- Source: https://flows.cv/amitmittal JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/amitmittal/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22