Amit Diwan (YouTuber at Amit Thinks) Family, Biography, and More
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Education: MCA (Master Of Computer Applications)
Hometown: West Delhi, India
Profession: YouTuber, Entrepreneur
Some Lesser Known Facts About Amit Diwan
- Amit is an Indian entrepreneur and YouTuber.
- He did his schooling at St. Marks Senior Secondary Public School, Janak Puri, Delhi.
- Amit’s favourite travel destination is Mauritius.
- He got his first freelancing gig at the age of 22, wherein he worked on a Python programming project.
- Right now, through his platforms, he publishes videos and content on programming and web development. His videos have got more than 4 crore (40 million) views on YouTube (as of October 2023). The subscribers on his YouTube Channel “Amit Thinks” (as of October 2023) are 1,48,000 (148k). Impressions have touched 225 million.
- His channel’s best month was September 2023, with over 2 million monthly views.
- Till now, he has written/published more than 70,000 videos, articles, posts, codes, and blogs, on E-Learning for students, engineers, and professionals. These posts/blogs/videos have received millions of views. His programming courses have more than 50,000 enrolments on top EdTechs, including, Udemy, Packt, O’Reilly, Tutorialspoint, Simplilearn, GeeksforGeeks, SkillShare, Reed, SkillSuccess, etc.
- In 2012, Amit completed his MCA. After completing his MCA, he was hired by Accenture. His hiring was delayed by three months. He secured a job at IIT, Delhi, while he was still working on his freelance assignments and waiting to join Accenture. He made the decision to decline a job offer from Accenture as a software engineer in order to concentrate on his current position and freelance work in the hopes of one day founding his own IT company.
- From 2012-2015, Amit did three government jobs at IIT Delhi, Pusa, and University of Delhi. He worked as a Research Associate for Pusa and a System Analyst for the University of Delhi.
- In 2016, he worked for C# Corner as a Technical Manager. After that, he started working as a Technical Content Manager for a private company called C# Corner in Noida. He received the MVP (Most Valuable Professional Award) while employed with C# Corner.
- After leaving his job, he was interested in doing his own work and, therefore took some freelancing corporate training projects for Tutorialspoint and Sitepoint.
- His teaching videos are all over YouTube in various programming languages and database technologies.
- In 2018, he commenced his own company “studyopedia” in Delhi, India.
- Amit was also invited to conduct seminars and webinars on programming technologies for reputed organizations, such as GeeksforGeeks, IMS Noida, GNIM Punjabi Bagh, IASRI, etc.
- Invited by IMS Noida to conduct a seminar on Data Science.
- Invited by GeeksforGeeks to conduct a webinar on Data Science.
- Invited by PUSA (IASRI) to conduct a webinar on Handling Unstructured Data.
- In 2020, Covid proved a blessing in disguise and he got ample time WFH on his YouTube Channel “Amit Thinks” and reached 1 million views in the 1st year without any investment in studio setup, advertisements, etc. In 2023, Amit got the YouTubers Creators Award – Silver Play Button.