Born in Kenya. Raised in England. Built in Florida.
I picked up an accent collection along the way and a habit of seeing problems from at least three angles at once.
Hi, I'm Amar.
I'm an Engineer.
I build microservices that talk to AI, hotels that talk to guests, and quiet little pieces of software that compound for years. Three continents shaped me. Twenty-four years of code did the rest.
- 24+ years writing code
- 2 issued U.S. patents
- 30+ microservices in Saathratri
- 10 years at Lockheed Martin
- 3 continents called home
- 3 npm packages maintained
A few things you might not expect
A decade at Lockheed Martin.
I worked across defense programs — the F-35's ALIS architecture team, Army condition-based-maintenance prognostics, the National Cyber Range — and ended up leading 10-14 engineers and briefing Generals and Colonels on the logistics software I helped build.
Two patents, one IEEE paper, zero plans to stop.
U.S. patents on machine prognostics (US 9,734,001) and Web services portlets (US 2006/0036954), plus an IEEE paper on CBM/PHM ground-vehicle architectures.
Three degrees, three reasons.
BS in CS (FIU Honors College, 2002) for the foundation, MBA (University of Phoenix, 2009) for the business muscle, MS in CS (Drexel, 2014) for the modern architectures.
I run a small npm corner of the JHipster world.
Three open-source blueprints — one teaches JHipster how to do AI semantic search with pgvector, one teaches it Apache Cassandra with composite keys and SAI/ANN vector search, and an orchestrator that composes both into a single multi-database platform generator.
Quiet operator behind a hospitality portfolio.
20% shareholder in family-run hotels and gas stations. I've automated the back-office and front-desk operations — accounting included — so the paperwork runs while everyone else sleeps.
What I'm building
Three active threads: a microservices platform, three open-source npm blueprints, and a quiet portfolio of hospitality websites.
2018 — Present
Saathratri
A 30+ microservice JHipster 9 platform for hospitality and SMB ops.
Active · v2.0.25generator-jhipster-ai-postgresql
Open-source JHipster 9 blueprint that adds AI semantic search via pgvector.
Active · v1.0.25generator-jhipster-cassandra
Open-source JHipster 9 blueprint for Apache Cassandra, with composite keys and ANN vector search.