Akshay Luthra

Software Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom12 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

11 years of software development experience.
Led architectural efforts for scalable systems at major tech companies.
Expert in FinTech and cloud technologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack engineer with expertise in Fintech and SaaS solutions.

Contact

akshay.luthra90@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsGoogle Cloud Platform (gcp)FintechSystems DesignMicroservicesKafkaSoftware DesignSoftware DevelopmentProblem Solving

Other Skills

A/B TestingAWS LambdaAmazon Web Services (AWS)Android DevelopmentArchitectureBack-End Web DevelopmentC++Cloud ComputingComputer EngineeringData AnalyticsData ScienceDatabasesDistributed AlgorithmsElastic SearchHibernate

About

I am a senior software engineer at Google with 11 years of experience in software development, and 10+ years of experience in architecting and designing large scale systems. Currently, I am leading the technological efforts in building a new highly optimized, performant, and secure framework and services to enable analytics over wearables. My mission is to leverage the power of technology to create innovative and impactful solutions for Google's users and clients. Previously, I worked with Booking.com to build their finance technology to enable payouts and invoices, and with OYO to architect the scalable food tech business and the generic search architecture from scratch. Further down I have worked with companies like Amazon, Adobe, MakeMyTrip and UHC to develop, design and create innovative solutions in different domains and technologies

Experience

Epic games

Principal Software Engineer

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Google

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2021 – Oct 2025 · 4 yrs 4 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · On-site

KotlinData AnalyticsDistributed SystemsMultithreadingHigh Availability (HA)MySQL+20

Booking.com

Software Engineer (Lead Software Engineer)

Sep 2019 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Leading the technological efforts in architecting, designing and developing the new scalable core financial services for Booking.com.
I have also been leading the technological efforts if designing and developing a generic framework to enable additional developer friendly features over Kafka.
Proposed, designed and Implemented a generic framework over Kafka to be used organisation wide as the core of event driven systems.
Mentoring Junior engineers and fresh graduates to grow in their careers.
Mentoring and leading, architectural design discussions for external teams.

Data AnalyticsDistributed SystemsMultithreadingHigh Availability (HA)FinTechMySQL+20

Oyo

Software Development Engineer 3 (Staff Software Engineer)

Mar 2019 – Sep 2019 · 6 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Responsible for leading the design and development, of Food Tech Business of OYO from scratch.
Lead the architectural and developmental efforts to redefine the way the Search functions, and was able to design and develop a generic framework to be used as a core of Search backend in OYO.
Mentored Engineer to grow both horizontally and vertically in their careers.
Lead re-architecture design discussions to re-define the core flow of Hotel Management System.

Data AnalyticsDistributed SystemsMultithreadingHigh Availability (HA)FinTechMySQL+20

Amazon

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Responsible for architecting, designing and developing 2 highly scalable tier 1 services from scratch.
Lead the efforts in re-designing the way, services interact in the Last Mile ecosystem of Amazon.
Mentored junior engineers to grow in their careers and to grow in an organisation like Amazon.
Proposed and optimised various architectural flows, to save millions in infrastructure.

Data AnalyticsDistributed SystemsMultithreadingHigh Availability (HA)MySQLHigh Performance Computing (HPC)+15

Makemytrip.com

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2016 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

Re-designed and developed the entire desktop website for flights.
Architected the new system in a way to scale for the peak and parallelly reduce the infrastructure costs.
Proposed and implemented an optimised flow for part payments during bookings.
Designed and Implemented the caching architecture.

Distributed SystemsMultithreadingHigh Availability (HA)MySQLHigh Performance Computing (HPC)Systems Design+15

Adobe

Software Engineer 2

Feb 2015 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Noida Area, India

Designed and developed the innovations revolving around 3D Printing, PostScript, PDF, PCL.
Proposed and optimised the new flows to reduce the memory footprints.
Contributed to technological efforts in innovating the cloud printing services.

Distributed SystemsMultithreadingHigh Availability (HA)MySQLHigh Performance Computing (HPC)Systems Design+12

Unitedhealth group

Apps Developer

Jun 2013 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Noida Area, India

At UnitedHealth Group, I worked as an Apps Developer and gained quite a good hold on languages like C, C++, VB Scripting, and used tools like Visual Studio, QTP, SAP Xcelsius Dashboard, HPSM, SQL, QC, ALM and have also created and registered more than 7 Automated Utilities (Using VB Script, C++, Python) at the organisational level.
Also I worked on SAP Xcelsius Dashboard to create Dynamic Dashboards (Created and Published 5 Dynamic Dashboards completely on my own)

Distributed SystemsMultithreadingMySQLSystems DesignDistributed AlgorithmsSoftware Design+8