Akul Goel

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Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India7 yrs 1 mo experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

7+ years of experience in data engineering.
Expert in building scalable, distributed data platforms.
Proven track record of cost reduction and high availability.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Engineering expert in the Fintech sector with a focus on scalable cloud solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringCloud Infrastructure

Other Skills

Apache AirflowApache DruidApache KafkaApache RangerApache SparkEnglishGo (Programming Language)KubernetesPython (Programming Language)ScalaTerraform

About

Software engineer with 7+ years of experience in building scalable, distributed, and big-data platforms from scratch, enabling the growth of an early-stage startup into a global organisation. Skilled in designing fault-tolerant systems, ensuring high availability, and driving initiatives with end-to-end ownership and customer focus.

Experience

Razorpay

3 roles

Lead Data Platform Engineer

Apr 2024 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Took Razorpay international by setting up all the services provided by our data platform in Singapore Region and collaborating with multiple teams to setup their services as well.
Helped in reducing the cost of the whole data platform by ~60% all the while maintaining the same availability numbers by cutting down on junk data and redundant data pipelines and enabling load-based auto scaling.

Apache KafkaApache DruidApache SparkApache AirflowTerraformKubernetes+2

Senior Data Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2021 – Apr 2024 · 3 yrs · Greater Bengaluru Area

Took the next step towards expanding the charter of data platform by setting up an OSS orchestration service called Airflow on Kubernetes to be used across the org.
Also built an org-wide eventing service for Razorpay's checkout page with support for rate limiting and authentication.

Apache AirflowKubernetesData EngineeringCloud Infrastructure

Data Engineer

Jul 2018 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Built the foundations of data platform by setting up CDC, pulling in data from multiple MySQL databases and storing it into data lake. Also contributed towards building a self-serve denormalised data layer to help optimise analytical queries.

Apache KafkaPython (Programming Language)Data Engineering