Amber Verma

Amber Verma

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Principal Application Engineer at Discover Financial Services

  • Education

    • Vellore Institute of Technology

      2005 - 2009
      Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
  • Experience

    • Tata Consultancy Services

      Dec 2009 - Sept 2014
      IT Analyst

      • Responsible for delivering new changes and code-fixes in all the components of the web application and a complex multithreaded Java Swing application.• Troubleshoot and resolve the application issues escalated from customer support and other departments with a 100% success rate.• Attended in-house training conducted by TCS.

    • Capgemini

      Sept 2014 - Jul 2020

      • Worked on POCs to determine viability of a technical solution for various problems.• Design and Implementation of critical and complex components. • Test Driven Development (TDD) using Junit & Mockito to ensure unit testing of the every functionality.• Ensure code quality by performing peer code reviews for any code going into Release using tools like SonarQube. • Design and develop highly scalable acquirer integration framework that can be reused to integrate different Acquirers in future.• Test Driven Development (TDD) using Junit & Mockito to ensure unit testing of every functionality.• Ensure code quality by performing peer code reviews.

      • Senior Consultant

        Apr 2017 - Jul 2020
      • Consultant

        Sept 2014 - Apr 2017
    • Discover Financial Services

      Aug 2020 - Aug 2023
      Principal Application Engineer

      • Create technology solutions to address high-impact business priorities. Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy features and product solutions with high quality to production environments.• Serve as a technical anchor in the team that built an Anti-Money Laundering Ecosystem from scratch. The system is based on cloud-native microservices architecture and stands as a highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed system. • Collaborate with multiple stakeholders, including business partners, platform engineering teams, and enterprise architects, to shape the technical roadmap for the team.• Participate in strategic technology decisions and understand their impact on the organization as a whole.• Proactively identify and mitigate issues across multiple domains, leveraging intuition and experience. Act as a thought leader among team members and drive root-cause analysis.• Coach technology communities within the organization in areas of specific technology domains, design thinking, agile software development methodologies, security, architecture, and data engineering. Show less

    • Discover Financial Services

      Jan 2024 - now
      Principal Application Engineer

      • Create technology solutions to address high-impact business priorities. Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy features and product solutions with high quality to production environments.• Serve as a technical anchor in the team that built an Anti-Money Laundering Ecosystem from scratch. The system is based on cloud-native microservices architecture and stands as a highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed system.• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders, including business partners, platform engineering teams, and enterprise architects, to shape the technical roadmap for the team.• Participate in strategic technology decisions and understand their impact on the organization as a whole.• Proactively identify and mitigate issues across multiple domains, leveraging intuition and experience. Act as a thought leader among team members and drive root-cause analysis.• Coach technology communities within the organization in areas of specific technology domains, design thinking, agile software development methodologies, security, architecture, and data engineering.Key Tech Stack: Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Rest APIs, React, PostgreSQL, Redis DB, OpenShift Container Platform, Kubernetes, AWS, Jenkins. Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Stanford University

      Coursera
      Apr 2015
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    • Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach, University Of Washington

      Coursera
      Jun 2016
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    • R Programming, Johns Hopkins University

      Coursera
      Aug 2015
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