Akshay Koul

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 3 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Built an AI chatbot reducing booking time by 64%.
  • Scaled app for 10M farmers with 99.95% crash-free rate.
  • Established best practices and CI/CD pipelines for efficiency.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fullstack Developer with expertise in SaaS and mobile application development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementSoftware DevelopmentArtificial Intelligence (ai)Cloud ComputingProject ManagementOperational ExcellencePlatform EngineeringMobile DevelopmentAndroid Development

Other Skills

AIAI ChatbotAPIsAlgorithmsAndroidAndroid SdkAndroid StudioApp Launch OptimizationCC++CI/CD PipelinesCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Chatbot DevelopmentClojureCollaboration

About

A Fullstack developer with experience working on Android, Clojure, NodeJS, ROR, Elasticsearch, Kafka

Experience

Best buy™ india

Senior Engineering Manager

Dec 2025Present · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Jiva

2 roles

Software Development Manager

Apr 2024Sep 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Built and scaled engineering teams from scratch, growing to over 17 developers and QA engineers,
  • establishing a strong engineering culture.
  • Led architecture reviews and design of scalable data flows and APIs for analytics pipelines; integrated
  • monitoring and observability with Datadog/Grafana.
  • Built a WhatsApp-based AI chatbot in Bahasa for Indonesian customers, reducing harvest booking time
  • by 64% and elevating customer experience.
Engineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipProject EngineeringData FlowsAPIsMonitoring+3

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2022Mar 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • I focused on delivering impactful software solutions that enhanced user experience and operational efficiency.
  • Drove collaboration across teams to scale an app for 10M farmers, achieving a crash-free session rate of 99.95%.
  • Reduced crashes per 10K sessions from 540 to 3.4, resulting in a 21% boost in user engagement.
  • Migrated 26 microservices to GCP in just 2 months, cutting cloud costs by 22.9% and increasing deployment speed by 25%.
Software DevelopmentCollaborationMicroservicesGCPUser ExperienceOperational Efficiency+1

Goto group

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2020Jun 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Managed the end-to-end project lifecycle for complex software initiatives, ensuring timely execution and delivery.
  • Defined and tracked KPIs to align with SLAs and business outcomes, enhancing operational efficiency.
  • Championed operational excellence by establishing monitoring and incident management processes.
  • Spearheaded service domain features, reducing launch cycles from 14 to under 4 days, improving partner onboarding speed by 50%.
Project ManagementKPI TrackingOperational ExcellenceMonitoringIncident Management

Quintype technologies

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2018Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos · On-site

  • Built and scaled core platform and Android engineering team from scratch to 8+ developers;
  • established best practices, CI/CD pipelines, and code review workflows, reducing release cycle from 2
  • weeks to 3 days.
  • Designed multi-tenant microservices for content analytics, powering 10M+ MAUs; supported real-time
  • data ingestion and reporting.
Platform DevelopmentCI/CD PipelinesMicroservicesContent AnalyticsSoftware DevelopmentPlatform Engineering

Senior Android Developer

Nov 2015Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · On-site

  • Developed the Android App Engine and in-house SDK, streamlining app launches for media publishers.
  • Enabled publishers to launch apps in under 2 weeks, significantly reducing the previous timeline of 30+ days.
  • Powered 20+ publisher apps, enhancing their onboarding experience and operational efficiency.
  • Contributed to Quintype, Inc's mission of empowering media publishers through innovative technology solutions.
Android DevelopmentSDK DevelopmentApp Launch OptimizationMobile Development

Leftshift technologies

Android Developer

Sep 2013Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area · On-site

  • Developed and optimized high-performance Android applications, including popular titles like BookMyShow and Byju's.
  • Enhanced app capabilities to support 100K concurrent users, ensuring a seamless user experience.
  • Reduced app bundle size by 30% and eliminated UI lag on low-memory devices, improving overall performance.
Android DevelopmentPerformance OptimizationUser ExperienceMobile Development

Education

Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University

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

Jan 2009Jan 2013

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