Akhil Ojha

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 2 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led integration of $100M+ ARR products post-M&A.
Built SOX-compliant IAM systems for 30,000+ vendors.
Engineered low-latency services for real-time fraud decisioning.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a focus on distributed systems and engineering leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Platform ArchitectureDistributed SystemsSoftware ArchitectureMicroservices

Other Skills

Engineering LeadershipDriving ResultsTechnical MentorshipDirector levelBack-End Web DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentDesignAlgorithmsRequirements AnalysisAgile MethodologiesServletsCore JavaJavaJSPAngularJS

About

Engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling high-performing teams while architecting distributed, high-availability systems across enterprise SaaS and consumer platforms. Proven track record of leading cross-functional organizations (30–40 engineers), contributing to the growth of 100+ engineer teams, and fostering engineering excellence through strong technical standards, design governance, and mentorship. Delivered post-M&A platform consolidation of $100M+ ARR products, built SOX-compliant IAM systems serving 30,000+ global vendors, and engineered low-latency services (p99 <50ms) powering real-time fraud decisioning. Passionate about developing leaders, driving technical rigor, and building scalable, revenue-impacting platforms.

Experience

14 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

2 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Airbnb

Engineer

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · India · Remote

Established and scaled Airbnb’s India engineering presence for the Global Community Support Platform, building a high-performing team supporting globally distributed operations.
Architected and delivered a SOX-compliant vendor Identity and Access Management platform from the ground up, enabling secure onboarding and role-based access control for 30,000+ vendors across global regions.
Automated access provisioning workflows, reducing vendor access time to under 5 minutes while strengthening auditability, compliance controls, and access governance.

Distributed SystemsPlatform Architecture

Atlassian

Principal Engineer

Jul 2019 – Feb 2024 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Founding member of the ITSM India engineering organization, contributing to the team’s growth to 100+ engineers while safeguarding engineering excellence through structured design reviews, architecture governance, and knowledge-sharing forums.
Led the end-to-end post-M&A technical integration of Statuspage ($27M ARR) and Opsgenie ($100M ARR) into the Atlassian core platform, consolidating incident management capabilities into Jira Service Management and successfully sunsetting the standalone Opsgenie product.
Architected and delivered a unified incident management platform within Jira Service Management, driving cross-product adoption and platform consolidation.
Led 30–40 engineers across 4 cross-functional teams, defining technical roadmap, platform architecture, and execution strategy while ensuring scalability, reliability, and architectural alignment across distributed systems.

Distributed SystemsSoftware Architecture

Expedia group

Software Developer

Apr 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India · On-site

Led a team of engineers to re-architect and scale a high-throughput signal retrieval service feeding Expedia’s core fraud detection platform.
Designed and optimized low-latency lookup systems achieving p99 <50ms while processing ~3,000 signals per second at peak traffic to power real-time fraud model evaluation during checkout.
Improved reliability and performance of upstream fraud decisioning systems, directly contributing to revenue protection.

Distributed SystemsMicroservices

Adobe

Member of Technical Staff- 2 (Software Development)

May 2014 – Apr 2018 · 3 yrs 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Implemented high-impact features for Adobe Target, a high-traffic personalization and experimentation platform used by global enterprise clients.
Improved system maintainability by driving code reviews, refactoring legacy components, and enforcing clean coding standards.
Developed and optimized CI/CD pipelines, enabling automated builds, testing, and reliable production deployments.

Distributed SystemsMicroservices