About
Amit Kumar has experience building and leading engineering teams, with a background in backend engineering and focus on user interface and experience design.
Founder at OctiFiYC W21
Intro paths
YC
Amit went through Y Combinator (Winter 2021) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Amit can intro founders to OctiFi's investors below.
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Co-founders at OctiFi
EC
Ed ChinFounder
Experience
- RedactoFounder and CEOcurrent2024 — presentIndia
- AntlerEntrepreneur in Residence at Antler India2024India
- Stealth StartupFounder2024Singapore
- LatitudePayCo-Founder Latitudepay Asia2020 — 2023Asia
- GoogleEngineering Manager2019 — 2020
- GrabHead Of Engineering - Payments2017 — 2019Singapore
- Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd)Director Of Engineering2015 — 2017Bengaluru Area, India
- Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd)Sr. Engineering Manager2014 — 2015
- SkillCafeCo Founder2013 — 2014Gainesville, Florida Area/Bangalore India
- IBM SingaporeDevelopment Manager2009 — 2013Singapore
- Apigee/Google CloudDevelopment Lead2005 — 2009Bengaluru Area, India
- MicrosoftSoftware Design Engineer2004 — 2005Hyderabad Area, India
- SumTotal Systems, LLCSoftware Design Engineer2003 — 2004Hyderabad Area, India
- Aplion NeworksMember Technical Staff2001 — 2002Noida Area, India
Skills & more
MongoDB7ElasticSearch2Unix3Enterprise Software2Java17Linux4C5XML4Eclipse3Django1AngularJS1C++4
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SQLJavaScriptMySQLHadoopPythonStart-upsEntrepreneurshipWeb ServicesAgile MethodologiesSoftware DevelopmentJava Enterprise EditionData MiningLanguages English
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Amit Kumar?
- Amit Kumar has experience building and leading engineering teams, with a background in backend engineering and focus on user interface and experience design.
- Where does Amit Kumar work?
- Amit Kumar is Founder of OctiFi.
- What companies did Amit Kumar found?
- Amit Kumar founded OctiFi.
- Where did Amit Kumar go to school?
- Amit Kumar studied at Nanyang Technological University Singapore (Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering); Y Combinator; Delhi University (Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science).
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Delhi University mafia14
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