Summary

Senior engineer with 12+ years in software, including ~8 years building and supporting production systems on AWS for enterprise cybersecurity products, most recently at Check Point. Hands-on across serverless infrastructure (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, SQS/SNS) and containerized microservices running on Kubernetes across multi-region AWS, released through GitOps pipelines (ArgoCD). Experienced in production debugging with Grafana and Kibana, and in event-driven systems. Currently building hands-on depth in Terraform, EKS, VPC networking and CI/CD pipelines.

Technical skills

Cloud (AWS)
LambdaAPI GatewayDynamoDBStep FunctionsS3SQSSNSCloudWatchIAMSecrets ManagerSSM Parameter StoreRoute 53CloudFrontACMEC2VPCEKS
Infrastructure as Code
CloudFormationTerraform
CI/CD & GitOps
AWS CodePipelineAWS CodeBuildAWS CodeDeployArgoCDJenkinsGitGitHub
Containers
DockerKubernetes
Observability
GrafanaKibanaCloudWatchOpsGenie
Scripting & Languages
BashPythonNode.jsTypeScriptJavaScript
Databases & Caching
PostgreSQLDynamoDBRedis
Operating Systems
Linux

Professional experience

  1. Jul 2021 – Sep 2026

    Software Developer

    Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. | Pune, India

    Cloud Infrastructure PlatformMay 2025 – Sep 2026

    Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, SQS, Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, AWS

    Backend services for the shared platform behind Check Point's cloud security products: identity, billing, licensing and tenancy, running as containerized microservices on Kubernetes across multi-region AWS.

    • Owned end-to-end delivery of two-factor authentication (TOTP and SMS via Twilio) for the centralized single sign-on service used across multiple Check Point products, from design through production release.
    • Built AWS Marketplace billing integration APIs handling the subscription lifecycle (subscribe, entitlement change, unsubscribe), with idempotent, retry-safe handling of AWS's at-least-once event delivery.
    • Built on-prem license management APIs integrated with the platform's authentication, identity and tenant services.
    • Diagnosed and resolved a cross-region replication defect that caused child licenses to fail to sync from parent licenses, tracing the root cause through Grafana dashboards and Kibana logs.
    • Shipped services to Kubernetes through GitOps release pipelines (ArgoCD), and wrote and maintained scheduled cron jobs for background processing.

    Serverless Security ProductJul 2021 – May 2025

    Python, Node.js, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, S3, SQS, SNS, CloudFormation

    • Developed and maintained Lambda-based services in Python and Node.js on a fully serverless AWS architecture, supporting the product's transition from Protego into Check Point after the acquisition.
    • Created and updated CloudFormation templates for Lambda functions, IAM permissions and supporting AWS resources, with secrets managed in Secrets Manager and SSM Parameter Store.
    • Provided nearly four years of production support, debugging live issues through CloudWatch logs and metrics.
  2. Apr 2020 – Jun 2021

    Software Consultant

    Codewits Solutions Pvt. Ltd. | Pune, India
    • Continued development of the AWS serverless security product through enterprise readiness ahead of its acquisition by Check Point.
  3. Sep 2019 – Apr 2020

    Senior Software Engineer

    GDB Technologies Pvt. Ltd. | Pune, India
    • Developed features and supported production for the same AWS serverless security product through a period of organizational restructuring.
  4. Dec 2016 – Jan 2019

    Software Engineer

    GDB Technologies Pvt. Ltd. | Pune, India
    • Moved from iOS development (Objective-C, Swift) into backend engineering, building services on AWS serverless architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB).
  5. Jan 2016 – Aug 2016

    iOS Developer

    CallnData Technologies | Pune, India
  6. Jun 2013 – Jan 2016

    Software Developer

    BVBI Infotech | Bengaluru, India

Projects

amitjikar.com | https://amitjikar.com

S3, CloudFront, Route 53, ACM

  • Hosted a static website in a private S3 bucket (public access blocked, encryption at rest enabled), served globally through a CloudFront CDN distribution, with bucket access restricted to CloudFront using Origin Access Control (OAC) and a bucket policy.
  • Delegated DNS from the domain registrar (BigRock) to a Route 53 public hosted zone, and configured A and AAAA alias records to route IPv4 and IPv6 traffic to the CloudFront distribution.
  • Secured the custom domain with HTTPS using an AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) certificate, validated through a DNS CNAME record in Route 53.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

Computer Science and Engineering

RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur, India

2012