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Akhilesh Singh

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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia22 yrs 1 mo experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led innovative data projects at top tech companies.
  • Built Walmart's customer account management system.
  • Expert in petabyte-scale data platforms on GCP.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Data Engineering expert with extensive experience in e-commerce and telecom sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology LeadershipMachine LearningGoogle Cloud Platform (gcp)Data Engineering

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAirflowAlgorithmsApache KafkaApache PigArtificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataCassandraCloud ComputingComputer VisionCore JavaDatabasesDesign PatternsDistributed SystemsElasticsearch

About

I have over 15 years of experience as Data & ML Lead engineer in retail & telecom domain.I have led teams at Walmart, Flipkart, Google & Youtube on various globally first kind of projects. I have built customer account management system at Walmart - if you shop at Walmart.com or any partner website, you are using the system built by me. I have extensive experince in building petabyte scale data platforms on Google Cloud Platfrom. Be it infrastructure design ( from Interconnect, VPC, Shared VPC to Kubernetes) or extensive realtime data pipeline executions ( Dataflow for moving 100 Tbs per day) , I have done it all. I have extensive understanding of BigQuery and optimized it for 10x cost/performance benefits.

Experience

Aviato consulting

2 roles

Chief Technology Officer

Promoted

Oct 2025Present · 5 mos

Technology Leadership

Strategic Advisor

Jun 2023Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Google

2 roles

Customer Data Platform , Head APAC

Mar 2022Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • As hands on software engineering lead, I am working on building data driven automation which can detect faults in any layer of Google Cloud Platform by intelligently scanning millions of metrics across 100s of end user services. Literally finding needle in a haystack.
  • I work with largest brands across APAC to identify and improve reliability bottlenecks. Improved data processing and storage by 10x integrating Dataflow and Hadoop compression formats in novel way which allow partitioned queries in Google Cloud Storage without any query engine.
KubernetesPython (Programming Language)Go (Programming Language)Machine LearningApache KafkaAlgorithms+2

Google Cloud Lead Engineer, Australia & North Asia

Nov 2016Mar 2022 · 5 yrs 4 mos

  • Led a team of Cloud Engineers across India and ANZ region.Built GCP platforms including Data, Infrasturcture and Security Platforms enabling Australia's largest businesses adopt cloud.Delivered Cloud Platforms compliant to stringent Data scale and security requirements.
  • Reduced GCS reads from 5 Petabytes per week to 100 Terabytes per week by incorporating MC4 Compression in Dataflow TextIO leveraging intelligent file partitioning
  • Built recommendation engine using Spark LDA to scale to billions of product/user pair
  • Implemented largest Airflow (Cloud Composer) instances executing 25000 batch jobs daily
  • Improved BQ performance and cost by 10x through Query optimization and table restructuring
Spring BootComputer VisionCassandraKubernetesPython (Programming Language)Machine Learning+7

Flipkart

Software Architect

Nov 2015Nov 2016 · 1 yr

  • º Revamped existing supply chain system to handle more than 3 million deliveries per day from 300,000+ happening today.
  • º Guided the development teams across the areas of Facility, Transport , Compliance & Master Data management.
  • º Conceptualized ideas with product teams and work with Directors/VPs to implement priority ideas.
Spring BootComputer VisionCassandraPython (Programming Language)Machine LearningApache Kafka+5

Walmart ecommerce

2 roles

Principal Software Engineer

Aug 2014Sep 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • º Responsible for design, development and implementation of Customer Management module.
  • º Supported up to 1 billion transactions ( up to 200 million writes) .
  • º Had used multiple technologies including Couchbase, Elasticsearch, Cassandra and highly optimized and tuned to extreme Oracle database.
Spring BootComputer VisionCassandraPython (Programming Language)Machine LearningApache Kafka+5

Staff Engineer

Sep 2012Aug 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • º Designed Customer Meta model which is internalized, flexible & supports high performance needs of walmart.com.
  • º Designed to support high volume website and multichannel access. The design is driven by SOA principles and involves security, performance, global multi tenant use cases.
  • º Extended, contributed and implemented ElasticSearch/Kibana/Logtash, Hadoop and Solr for analytics, auditing and log management.
Spring BootCassandraPython (Programming Language)Machine LearningApache KafkaAlgorithms+3

Fermi systems & solutions

Director, Fermi Systems & Solutions

Apr 2011Sep 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore

  • º Responsible for designing, developing and implementing cloud based e-Learning solutions targeted at students and corporate.
  • º Managed IT budget
  • º Responsible for Resource planand prioritization of projects
Python (Programming Language)Apache KafkaAlgorithmsData Engineering

Aricent

2 roles

Product Consultant & Solution Architect

Jun 2010Sep 2012 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

  • º Led a team of developers for Innovation and creation of product roadmap.
  • º Handled multi-million RFP for Uninor (India) for mediation and ICSS by leading the team to win offer on technical capability.
  • º Designed and implemented Diameter gateway for Lebara project (UK) and turn on the proposal on positive side.
  • As solution architect in Uninor project, I designed, developed and implemented key components of ICCS and Mediation system. The system handles billing and interconnect of all Uninor circles in India.
Python (Programming Language)AlgorithmsData Engineering

Tech Lead

Aug 2004Jan 2009 · 4 yrs 5 mos

  • Lead a team of 12 developers in Agile project for delivery of IBM Project.
AlgorithmsData Engineering

Zinnia systems

Co-founder & Director

Jan 2009Feb 2012 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • As Co-founder & Chief Software Architect of Zinnia Systems, I was responsible for leading a 10 member developer team for creating cutting edge BSS/OSS system using open source projects. I am the creator of Zarada suite of BSS/OSS products which is now installed at multiple operators across Eurpoe, US and South east Asia. Also, I had led a 4 developer team to implement the Analytics platform using Hadoop and Mahout. This platform is now in use at multiple Tier-1 companies.
AlgorithmsData Engineering

Hughes software systems india

Software Engineer

Jan 2004Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

  • My key role was to implement Revenue Reconciliation project. This project was very challenging due to constraints of time and newer technologies being used in Huges for first time. I played a pivotal role in the project as I was the only team member with Java & JSP experience.
AlgorithmsData Engineering

Education

Arizona State University

Master's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2019Jan 2020

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Specializaiton in Data Science at Scale — Data Science

Jan 2016Jan 2017

Udacity

Flying Car Engineer

Jan 2018Jan 2018

Udacity

Self Driving Car

Jan 2017Jan 2017

National Institute of Technology Silchar

B.Tech

Jan 2000Jan 2004

Scottish Church College

XII — Science

Jan 1998Jan 2000

Sri Daulatram Nopany Vidyalaya

Secondary — Class X

Jan 1981Jan 1998

University of Technology Sydney

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD — Portfolio Optimisation using Information Fusion and Deep Learning methods

Jun 2023Present

University of Technology Sydney

Pursuing Phd — Artificial Intelligence

University of Technology Sydney

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD — Artificial Intelligence - Pathways to AGI

Jun 2024Jan 2027

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