About

Amit Sharma is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 9 years of experience in Large Scale Distributed Storage and Search applications. He is currently working at Facebook as a Senior Software Engineer, where he is responsible for designing and developing large scale distributed systems. Amit is an expert in C, C++, NoSql DataStore, Streaming Services, and REST APIs, with a strong background in database internals, database design, Machine Learning, and Search ranking. Amit's expertise in Search optimizations, Back-end development, and Machine Learning has helped him to contribute significantly to the success of several companies. During his tenure at Microsoft as a Software Engineer II, he played a key role in rolling out smart features for Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook for file search. His work included designing and developing features like Search Ranking using Machine Learning ranking algorithms, leveraging NoSQL data store with REST APIs to personalize the user experience, using Streaming services by logging and processing real-time user activities to improve Search relevance, growing the usage from 1M users to 10M users, and improving latency by using local caching and REDIS cache for cloud Service. He also designed infrastructure to optimize shredding of cloud files. Amit has also worked as a Software Development Engineer 2 at Dell, where he was responsible for designing and developing a distributed parallel fault-tolerant file system by Isilon OneFS. He designed and implemented large-scale distributed services to retrieve file policies in O(1) and upgraded and improved snapshot performance using file policies for OneFS. He also developed the ability for snapshots to exclude sub-folders for OneFS, enhanced the tools to manage, maintain, and repair OneFS filesystem, and fixed bugs for snapshots and system integrity. Amit holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from LNMIIT. He has also completed his HSC from Mount Carmel and SSC from Oxford School. Amit's tech stack includes Software Engineer, Search, ML, Backend, NoSQL, Redis, and infra. With his strong engineering background and expertise in designing and developing large scale distributed systems, Amit is a valuable asset to any organization.