Amit Kaura

Amit heads technology at Irwin, a company that allows its corporate customers to better manage their IR program by automating manual tasks, giving them access to powerful, differentiated investor and shareholder data, and reducing their time to insight so IR teams can focus on adding strategic value to their company.

• Lead Product, Platform & Data engineering, IT and Security functions at Irwin
• Establish standards, practices and observability tooling to ensure the tech scales with load on a rapidly growing platform
• Own the R&D process from ideation to planning to execution to implementation and retrospectives to iterations.
• Own the AI strategy, implementation, and adoption of AI-first tooling for all teams at Irwin
• Lead the injection of targeted Gen AI-powered Insights into the Irwin app

Amit headed technology at AudienceView, a company that provides a suite of SaaS white-label products to live event venues in North America and Europe. These products encompass marketing for live events, online and box-office ticketing, payment solutions, venue access controls, and a CRM system. Most of these products originated from various acquisitions made by AudienceView over the past six years. In the early stages of his role, Amit had to define, communicate, and implement a new operating model in response to unstable systems, lack of accountability and ownership and rapid unstructured hiring that had taken place over the last year. This model aimed to ensure that all these products, which were on different technology stacks and infrastructure (AWS/Azure/Datacenter), received the required attention and that technology investments aligned with the company's overall strategy. To achieve this, he established separate technology units to cater to the specific requirements of each product.

• Establish strong working relationships with key stakeholders in Product, Marketing, Finance, Compliance, Sales and Customer Success to align priorities, ensure that the work being done is measurable, and remove waste and duplicative effort to increase value creation for our internal and external clients
• Lay out the technical strategy covering the operating model, organization structure, technical architecture (a new platform model to create shared services that can serve all products), development frameworks and processes to deliver stable, feature-rich and client-centric live event management solutions at scale.
• Develop and deliver clear and concise reporting to the board covering all initiatives in progress, upcoming initiatives, as well as operational and project risks.
• Executive sponsor for the 2 biggest clients of AudienceView’s enterprise offering. Met with these clients regularly to help support adoption as well as provide strategic oversight of the relationship.
• Play a pivotal role in presenting our solutions to potential large enterprise clients, showcasing our offerings and value proposition.
• Lead a global and distributed 75-person organization consisting of cross-functional pods of full-time, contract employees and outsourcing partner solution architects, software developers, automation engineers, SREs and delivery leaders focused on agile and iterative product development, feature enhancements, and ongoing maintenance, deployment and observability for all of our ticketing products.
• Coach the team in the adoption and use of agile methodology and modern design and delivery patterns like containerization, managed services, DevOps, platform engineering, observability, and service excellence
• Lead the site reliability function focused on running legacy data centers and modern cloud implementations. This team is accountable for ensuring service health, release management, observability, and development and test automation tooling.
• Lead the security and compliance function focused on ensuring systems and processes met all standards and regulations. Established automated collection, parsing and reporting of security-related data points from various security monitoring tools via setting up a NOC (Network Operations Center)

Amit headed Engineering at KOHO. KOHO is a fintech startup in Canada with a mission to democratize access to financial services for Canadians.

• Lead a global and distributed 100-people organization of full-time, contract employees and outsourcing partner solution architects, software developers, and delivery leaders focused on agile and iterative product development, feature enhancements, and ongoing maintenance for the KOHO mobile banking app, backend systems and partner integrations.
• Collaborate with the Head of Product to prioritize investments in core areas and innovative ventures by building a framework that balances effort and impact.
• Collaborate with the Platform Engineering teams to work on developer productivity initiatives like automation of the creation of test suites, provisioning of environments in AWS for local testing and incident management
• Partner with the CTO to create a long-term, durable technical strategy for the engineering team to execute.

Amit led Engineering at Achievers and was responsible for providing strategic technical leadership and development for the Achievers' SaaS-based workplace technology and employee experience platform. He led multiple initiatives to help Achievers scale up its operations and launch in new geographies and industry verticals during his tenure.

• Lead a global and distributed 130-person organization of full-time, contract employees and outsourcing partner solution architects, software developers, and delivery leaders focused on agile and iterative product development, feature enhancements, and ongoing maintenance for the Achievers Employee Experience platform.
• Lead modern agile transformation, resulting in faster, predictable iterative value delivery.
• Collaborate with product leadership to align product development roadmaps with business value and technical debt resolution.
• Collaborate with the SRE team to work on developer productivity initiatives like automation of the creation of test suites, provisioning of environments in GCP for local testing and incident management
• Partner with the CTO to create a long-term durable technical strategy for the engineering team to execute.
• Lead community outreach through meetups and tech talks.

• Managed three feature development teams and development managers.
• Collaborated with Product leadership on the platform's feature roadmap.

• Led cross-functional delivery teams for modernizing the Policy Administration system.
• Successfully launched the system in Atlantic Canada.

• Managed a cross-functional team building next-generation web-based services for Canadian Depository for Securities Ltd, Canada
• Led the development of the Retail Management System for Valvoline.
• Designed, built, and implemented high-performance software solutions at scale for clients like Barclays, ING, and Goodyear.