Amol Bharti developed his interest in computers when he was in 8th standard. He started learning GW-BASIC, FoxPro, Windows 95 and messed around with Quake games. He assembled his first computer back in 1997 and started his professional journey as a freelancer web developer in 1998 and became one of the famous young developers from India in very short span of time. His achievements were spotted in August 2002 by 11 national dailies including The Tribune, Indian Express, Times of India and Hindustan Times. He was associated with Lovechandigarh.com and Chandigarhteens.com One of the very first local social media networks.

While continuing with his freelancing work he graduated from kurukshetra University in his favourite field Bachelors of Internet Science and Master in Computer Applications from Institute of Engineering & Technology in 2006.

His papers on ethical hacking, reverse engineering and cryptography were presented in various national tech fests. His paper on Code is an ART received accolades from Department of Information technology, India. He submitted 7 major projects during his masters including a much appreciated students portal ietbugs.com and a virtual 3-D model of IET-Bhaddal.

He was also the captain of institutes badminton team and bagged two silver and one bronze medal for three consecutive years in intra-university badminton championships. In his MCA final year he was honoured with college colour award for outstanding performance.

While working on some freelance projects, he also developed interests in User Interface designing/development and was offered a job by Virsa Systems, five month before the completion of his studies. He worked as a User Interface Specialist for around 8 months and eventually started participating in the product development at SAP after the acquisition. His journey at SAP was not less than any other challenge. With only 5 days of Netweaver Webdynpro Java training he made it to SAP Risk Management team and started contributing as a core developer from day one. He further stretched and learned Webdynpro ABAP and participated in the Risk Management migration to ABAP platform.

At SAP he was still looking for fame, he participated in the SAP Code Olympics 2006 but unfortunately could not win the competition, But the very next year his ideas striked back and surprised everybody by winning the SAP Code Olympics 2007 championship by defeating 132 SAP teams. The idea behind the project was purely based on Governance, Risk Management, Compliance and Security. This is when he started digging into information system security and joined Syntel Ltd as a GRC consultant in mid 2008. He was again in a new role with quite a lot challenges.

Currently he is conducting enterprise application security reviews and helping organizations gain insights on the potential risks and vulnerabilities. He is also writing his PhD thesis on some un-explored subjects, and yes he still plays some advanced forms of Quake arena games on weekends. (less info)