Sumit Amar
Sr. Director of Engineering, Visa

@chiefcoder

Sumit Amar is Senior Research Developer in Microsoft Corp. He is responsible for incubation in Microsoft Bing user interface development. He has 10 years of experience in software development, and he has been with Microsoft since 2004. He started programming for fun in 1993 in BASIC language. In the past, Sumit worked in C, Perl, and Java, in addition to .NET development. His interest areas are Web UI development, semantic web representations, UI automation, and analysis of Web users’ expectations. Sumit has a Bachelors degree with dual major in Computer Science and Business, and an MBA in information technology and systems. He is a PhD student specializing in Computer Information Systems.

Sumit has been an active speaker for Microsoft Engineering Excellence series within and outside Microsoft on the topics of JavaScript, AJAX, XSL, and Silverlight. He recently spoke at TechEd, and TechReady conferences in adding to MS EE, Enterprise Computing Series, and EE & Trustworthy computing forum.