Akshat Khanna

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India3 yrs 6 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Active contributor to Kubernetes and CNCF projects.
Developed a real-time settlement engine for financial transactions.
Recognized for outstanding contributions in open-source communities.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with strong cloud-native and DevOps capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

System ArchitectureGo (programming Language)GolangCloud EfficiencyKubernetesPythonDjangoMachine LearningDatabase Management

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)BootstrapC++Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Cloud-Native ApplicationsDartDevOpsDockerEngineeringFastAPIFirebaseFlutterGitHTML5JavaScript

About

An SRM Institute of Science and Technology graduate, I am a passionate Software Engineer and an experienced Developer. I am an active open-source contributor. I have contributed to upstream open-source Kubernetes and other Kubernetes SIG projects. I have been very active in CNCF and kubernetes community. I have also spoken at many community tech events like Kubernetes Community Days Bengaluru 2022, Kubernetes Community Days Chennai 2022 and Container Days at Hamburg, Germany. Previously, I have worked with PayU Payments as SDE Intern and have experience participating in 50+ Hackathons and competitive programming challenges over these years with multiple top performances. My interests lie in Multi-cloud Orchestration, Edge computing, Full-stack development and DevOps. Edge and Micro-Services applications using Kubernetes and container technologies. Technical Skills: + Go, Python, C, C++, JavaScript + Kubernetes, Docker, Containerd, Prometheus + Django, Django REST, Node JS, React JS, Flask + Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design + Operating Systems, Distributed Systems + Bash, Docker, Git, BitBucket, Cloud Functions

Experience

Angel one

SDE 2

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

🏗️ Re-architected the SEBI Mandatory Payout into a distributed architecture, enabling real-time processing for 50 Lakh+ clients and securing payouts exceeding INR 5,000 Cr with improved scalability and reliability.
🚀 Revamped legacy batch payout system into a real-time settlement engine, reducing processing time from 3 hours to 10 seconds via UPI, IMPS, and RTGS, processing 450K+ daily transactions with a total value exceeding INR 800 Cr.
⚡ Ensure high performance, low-latency, and fault-tolerant systems in trading operations.
🤝 Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate post-trade systems with broader financial services.
📊 Optimize database interactions for faster transaction processing.
✅ Ensure compliance with financial regulations and data security standards.

Go (Programming Language)System ArchitecturePostgreSQLAmazon Web Services (AWS)Engineering

Astuto

Founding Engineer

Jan 2024 – Jul 2024 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

🚀 Built an AI-first Cloud Efficiency Platform that helps businesses maximize ROI on public cloud investments.
💻 Developed a Multi-Tenant SaaS platform backend to optimize cloud costs.
🧠 Implemented a Recommendation Engine to identify and suggest solutions for violated policies on Cloud Infra, saving businesses up to 30% in cloud costs.
⚙️ Tech Stack: Golang, Python, FastAPI, and database technologies like PostgreSQL.

GolangPythonFastAPIPostgreSQLCloud Efficiency

Vmware

3 roles

Member Of Technical Staff 2

Promoted

Feb 2023 – Dec 2023 · 10 mos

🚀 Contributing to cutting-edge advancements in Kubernetes for Edge and optimizing Kubernetes to operate seamlessly in edge environments.
🔧 Integrate optimized K8s Edge runtime with TinyTKG to enhance the Kubernetes ecosystem in Tanzu and promote edge computing adoption.
📢 Recognized and featured in VMware's Open Source blog for outstanding contributions to the Kubernetes and Open-Source communities.
🏆 Honored with the prestigious "Achieve Our Best" award, acknowledging exceptional performance and dedication at VMware.
🎙️ Delivered captivating talks at renowned Open-Source conferences, including Kubernetes Community Days Bengaluru, Kubernetes Community Days Chennai, Container Days Europe, and Open Source Summit in Dublin, Ireland.
📚 Received a Scholarship from Linux Foundation to attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Amsterdam, Netherlands, further expanding expertise in cloud-native technologies.
🌟 Started as an intern and rapidly progressed to the role of Member of Technical Staff 2 within a remarkable six-month period.

Member Of Technical Staff

Jul 2022 – Jan 2023 · 6 mos

KubernetesGo (Programming Language)

MTS Intern

Jan 2022 – Jul 2022 · 6 mos

Payu

Software Engineer Intern

Apr 2021 – Jan 2022 · 9 mos

+ Developed a Multi-tenant SaaS based Platform to make an online presence of small and medium businesses.
+ Built a dashboard for Observability of microservices at PayU to get metrics and alerts.
+ Tech Stack: Python, Django, ReactJS, Next.js, GraphQL, TypeScript, PostgreSQL,
Docker

PythonDjangoReactJSPostgreSQLDocker

Samsung electronics

Samsung PRISM Researcher

Oct 2020 – Mar 2021 · 5 mos

Worked in a team of 3 members on the leaflet: "On Device Information Extraction using Machine Learning".
Our task was to extract important information from the corpus of text.
My role was to develop a tool that gives classification for each word in the corpus.
Tech used: Python, Tensorflow2.0, Keras, Numpy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, and Natural Language Concepts.

PythonTensorflow2.0KerasNumpyPandasScikit-Learn+1

Goken india

Software Developer Intern

Aug 2020 – Oct 2020 · 2 mos

Developed a Full-Stack web application that allows companies to manage and track their issues efficiently.
Increased the server response time by 10% by optimizing APIs.
Developed responsive product UI, scaled the backend and improved the load time of pages.

Eulercoder technologies

Software Developer Intern

Jun 2020 – Aug 2020 · 2 mos

Developed a high-performance growth automation platform called TexAu.
Developed many automations for different social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.
Built Admin Dashboard for customer support team to easily update user data.
Worked on analytics and created a dashboard to display the workflow metrics.
Tech Stack: NodeJS, Puppeteer, ReactJS, AWS, Google Cloud Platform

Panoptic analytics

Python & Database Intern

Jun 2019 – Jul 2019 · 1 mo

Developed Scripts using Python to optimize the migration of data from SQL database (MySQL and PostgreSQL) to NoSQL database (Mongo DB) and vice versa using Data Structure and Algorithms
Tech Stack: Python, PostgreSQL, Mongo DB, Front-End Web Development

PythonPostgreSQLMongo DBDatabase Management