Sumit Amar
Vice President, Engineering at WEX
- Role
- Vice President of Engineering at WEX
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sumit Amar
WEX is at the forefront of mobility solutions, delivering cutting-edge fintech products that streamline the business of running a business. Sumit leads the Mobility Engineering org, with a focus on multi-modal card payment products and SaaS offerings tailored for SMBs and global entities in fuel and fleet sectors. Under Sumit\'s leadership, Mobility products focus on issuing credit to fleet companies and small businesses, enabling spend controls, incorporating alternate fuel options such as Electric Vehicles charging, managing fuel discounts, and providing actionable insights to customers.Previously with Amazon, Sumit led the Cobrand Credit Cards and Installments products for small businesses, managing global technology teams and executing strategic roadmaps that drove tangible innovation and customer value. The frameworks and mechanisms he introduced significantly enhanced the operational excellence, timeliness, quality, and growth of team members.Prior to Amazon, Sumit led engineering teams for innovation in card payments at Visa, Cloud computing for game development at Electronic Arts, and Advertising systems at Microsoft.
Experience
Vice President of Engineering
Apr 2024 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
We are hiring senior talent (Software Engineers and Leaders) at WEX Mobility, in Seattle, Bangalore, and São Paulo ==Sumit leads software development for Mobility / Fleet payment products at WEX - a fintech company that simplifies the business of running a business. Sumit looks after globally distributed engineering teams (250+ members) focusing on- Global fleet / Mobility solutions for payments (card issuance, controls, lifecycle, tokenization, transactions) and fleet/vehicle management- Multi-modal payment card products that enable payments on closed-loop (WEX) and open-loop networks- API-first solutions to enable the Mobility economy- Alternate fuel (Electric Vehicles) reimbursements, analytics, and insights- Mobility/Fleet SaaS products for SMBs- Over The Road (OTR) Mobility SaaS products servicing trucking fleet customers and owner operators- SaaS for Field Service Management (Trades)We are an AI-first development company, actively improving our product innovation velocity using AI tooling for software development, testing, and deployments.
Education
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (NIELIT)
'A' level, Computer Science
2000 — 2001
Punjab Technical University
MBA, Information Technology and Systems
2000 — 2002
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