Amit Saxena | Entrepreneur, Web Developer, Ruby on Rails Developer

About Me

Name: Amit Saxena
Date of birth: 10 Apr 1983
Email: [email protected]

Summary

Fascinated by the beauty, reach and power of the world wide web. Hope to make it large some day, put a dent in the universe, and want to be my best in whatever I do. Go getter, self motivator and fast learner.

What I Do ?

I have been creating web based applications from scratch for the past 17 years, primarily writing code in Rails and have extensively used technologies like MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS and anything else that solves the problem. I am a fast learner, go-getter and self motivated individual who enjoys building things, and derives immense pleasure when those products get used!

Ruby on Rails
MongoDB
MySQL
Redis
Javascript
AWS
HTML/CSS
Elasticsearch

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Resume

Experience

2012-Present

VP of Web Engineering
MAZ Digital, Noida, India

MazDigital.com is a digital publishing platform that allows magazine publishers to have interactive iOS/Android apps without any technical knowledge, via a DIY interface. It currently powers magazines like Forbes and OK! I joined the founders when it was a prototype (the first dev, other than the founders), and grew it to what it is today - a scalable platform, used by hundreds of publishers to serve digital content to millions of end users, on tablets and mobile devices. We have added a range of new products for Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV and Apple Watch! Other than that we have tried our hands at consumer products as well, which started as a mobile first browser, with some really cool features and evolved into a social network built around content sharing - Lynx!
2010-2011

Entrepreneur
Founder (BillBaba.com)

Billbaba.com is a free way to manage bill payments. Single handedly managed the project, starting from concept through design and development up to production rollout. Some of the primary technical responsibilities included - product design, development, testing, server and stack setup, deployment, monitoring of critical services, backend crons and jobs, proactive problem and error reporting, SVN server setup, apache configuration and optimization, automated db backups and server security.
5/2008-11/2010

Software Developer
Lime Labs LLC, Noida, India

Worked on Limedomains.com and contributed to different aspects of the application, while it grew from a domain reseller to an ICANN accredited registrar, and a complete hosting solutions provider. Primarily owned the one click application installs, application catalog, forum, fraud module and capacity planning exercises.
7/2007-5/2008

Associate Engineer
GlobalLogic, Noida, India

Was a member of the core development Team for the 3.x Series of Syfact Investigator and was appreciated by the partner on several occasions for pulling them out of difficult situations. Syfact is a leading global provider of investigative case management solutions, best practices, and technologies.

Education

2003-2007

Bachelor of Technology
Information Technology, MNNIT Allahabad, India

Completed my Bachelor's degree in IT from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology and scored good grades (cumulative performance index of 8.51 out of 10) at college.

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