Sumit Amar
Vice President of Engineering
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Sumit leads global engineering teams for Mobility/Fleet systems at WEX as a VP of Engineering. Before joining WEX, Sumit worked at Amazon as a Sr Manager of Software Development leading B2B Cobrand Payments and AWS API Gateway Dataplane orgs.
Sumit has a proven track record of delivering high-quality products and services across various domains, including cloud computing, search advertising, e-commerce, and secure payments. He holds multiple patents in security and reliability in distributed systems and conversational AI, and frequently speaks at industry events on topics such as API design, and AI (ML and NLP). He has also led engineering teams at Microsoft, EA, and Visa, where he developed next-gen payment products using AI, blockchain, IoT, and contactless technologies. Sumit is driven by a mission to create value for customers and stakeholders by leveraging cutting-edge technologies and best practices.
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The right kind of API - An analysis of data contracts and protocols
This session aims to guide the audience on choosing a right combination of data contracts (JSON, XML, Protocol Buffers etc) and pair it with adequate data binding or a channel (HTTP/S, Binary over gRPC, or gRPCweb for browsers, or TCP binding using a binary channel). Session will cover various business use cases and suggest what combination fits for best performance, scalability, and maintenance.
What transforms a developer into a high performance developer?
This session highlights salient learnings from speaker’s long experience of managing software engineers and managers. The session covers various software engineering habits and attitudes that can propel any software developer into a high performance state. Various elements of engineering practices about operational excellence, innovation, product-thinking, and technical leadership are discussed with examples.
Engineering Leadership - Stepping Up and Breaking Through
This session is for aspiring engineering managers, and for seasoned engineering leaders looking to grow leadership muscle in their teams. This session will cover some practical advice on how to break into an engineering manager role, and outline expected behavioral and technical aspects to be successful. Session will cover aspects of stepping up, taking ownership, writing OKRs, and growing others regardless of reporting structure.
RESTful shmetsful - What’s with API Usability
APIs that are modern, RESTful, and rich with Usability could make all the difference in onboarding new clients to your business. This session covers usability best practices in exposing basic and complex business functions via simple APIs. In-depth details on building RESTful interfaces, HATEOAS links for navigation and usability, ODATA for standard data retrieval (paging, sorting, selecting, filtering etc), and error handling are covered in this talk. Code samples, and sample API endpoints with request/response data will be shared with the audience. Session will cover using Lambda functions in HTTP(S) URLs, to perform operations on aggregated and single entities.
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Sumit Amar
Vice President of Engineering
Seattle, Washington, United States
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