About Me
Hello! I’m Akhil, a highly motivated and resilient Full Stack Developer with a DevOps orientation. 5+ years of experience in building scalable web applications while focusing on the CI/CD best practices. Skilled at back-end development and a master of cloud technologies, I am a quick learner and a team player that gets the job done. Collaboration and hard-work are my keys to maximize timely deliverables.
Details
D.O.B.
1st October, 1996
Email
aks.mnnit.cse@gmail.com
Phone
+1 778-859-3196
Location
BC, Canada
Professional Skills
JavaScript & NodeJS/Express
MongoDB & Database Design
TypeScript & NestJS
React & NextJS
Python
CI/CD Pipelines
Amazon Web Services
Containerization
ELK Stack
Retool
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer at Ardent SoftSol,
Surrey (Canada)
February 2024 - Present
• Ported code for multiple cron jobs to AWS Serverless Framework
Senior Software Engineer at Talentica Software,
Pune (India)
October 2022 - January 2024
• Built and managed 20+ student-loan servicer integrations which have connected 80K+ users
to the platform.
• Designed and implemented a high-fedility payment system that has processed 7K+ transactions,
totalling US$1.5M.
• Improved scalability of daily cron job to handle data refresh of 100K+ student-loan accounts
using AWS Lambda and SQS.
• Implemented caching using Amazon ElastiCache for Redis to reduce API response times by 70%.
• Implemented CDN hosting using AWS CloudFront to load drop-in modules gracefully in an adaptive
and responsive iframe.
• Worked on scalability and performance enhancement of multiple inter-linked
applications.
Software Engineer at Talentica Software, Pune (India)
April 2020 - September 2022
• Single-handedly created the NodeJS backend framework and BitBucket CI/CD
pipelines for a Series A funded US startup.
• Set up the AWS Auto-Scaling after giving careful consideration to the expected incoming
users
count and CPU utilization factor.
• Improved horizontal scaling of the platform by implementing Message Queue pattern in NestJS and RabbitMq.
• Made the application SEO-friendly and improved the page load times by leaveraging NextJS.
• Enabled better customer data analytics (conversion rate, turnaround time, etc) with the help of Segment events and Mixpanel .
• Introduced Dockerised setup for the entire application to reduce developer onboarding
time by
30% and facilitate code execution congruity on varied developer machines.
DevOps Engineer at Deloitte USI, Bengaluru (India)
August 2018 - March 2020
• Responsible for the migration of a Fortune 500 company's application from on-premise infrastructure to
AWS-based cloud solutions.
• Automated the task of infrastructure provisioning, thereby eliminating hours of manual effort, with the help of
Terraform.
Education
Master of Science in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, USA)
Year of Completion
2026
Master of Arts in Industrial and Organisational Psychology
Indira Gandhi National Open University (New Delhi, India)
Year of Completion
2023
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (Allahabad, India)
Year of Completion
2018
Indian School Certificate
St. Francis' College (Lucknow, India)
Year of Completion
2014
Indian Certificate of Secondary Education
St. Francis' College (Lucknow, India)
Year of Completion