Akul Goel

CTO

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 2024Aug 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 2021Apr 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 2018Apr 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

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Mathematics and Computer Science

Jan 2014Jan 2018

ASN Sr. Sec. School, Mayur Vihar

12th Pass — Science Stream

Jan 2012Jan 2014

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