Akshay Soni

Senior Software Engineer

Santa Clara, California, United States8 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in developing scalable SaaS applications.
Proficient in Kubernetes and cloud technologies.
Strong leadership in software engineering projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and IoT-focused Senior Software Engineer with expertise in cloud infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

SaasKubernetesNodejsJavaSpring BootJavascriptAws

Other Skills

GolangGRPCREST APIsDockerElasticSearchNodePythonSpring FrameworkGitJenkinsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Docker ProductsInternet of Things (IoT)GradleHitachi Storage

About

Experienced Senior Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the Product and Services industry at a massive scale serving multimillion-dollar, globally deployed applications. Skilled in Programming Languages (Java, Node.js, Python, Golang), in Databases (structured and non-structured data), Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), Container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker) and Deployment tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins). Great set of soft skills and being able to communicate and collaborate at a high level to ensure tasks are completed efficiently and at a high quality. I put an emphasis on building high quality teams to enable everyone's success.

Experience

8 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

4 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Confluent

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

Hitachi data systems

4 roles

Senior Software Engineer - SaaS, Kubernetes, IoT

Apr 2021 – Dec 2021 · 8 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

Developing a SaaS platform supporting Catalog as a Service, Machine Learning as a Service, Edge Analytics and IoT.
Designing and implementing Kubernetes APIs and resources using Golang, Operator SDK.

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Software Engineer - Hitachi Kubernetes Service

Feb 2020 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

Full stack development of an enterprise computing platform to run Kubernetes clusters on premises, in the cloud or at the edge.
HKS supports Deployment, Management and Monitoring of enterprise-grade Kubernetes clusters across all major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and on premise (Vmware vCenter).
Designing and developing multiple microservices using NodeJs, GRPC and REST APIs.
Developing Kubernetes APIs, Controllers, Custom Resources etc.
R&D on different kubernetes applications/services on all cloud providers and on prem like Storage (Portworx, Rook and Ceph), LoadBalancers (MetalLB), CSI, CCM, Backup and Restore (Velero), Databases (Postgres), ElasticSearch, SMTP Server, ClusterApi.
Work with Product Managers/Architects for feature requirements for upcoming releases.

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Software Engineer - Hitachi Storage Advisor

Feb 2018 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs · Santa Clara, California, United States

Feature team lead for 5+ critical releases supporting customer requirements.
Design, implement, and test features involving Restful APIs using Java Spring Boot, Docker, ElasticSearch, JMockit. Some of the high priority features include Volume Migration (Internal & External), Global Active Device (High Availability), Virtualization, Virtual Storage Machines (VSM).
Project owner and lead developer for Disk Controller (DKC) Simulator - Demo environment used by Sales and Marketing teams to showcase the product to customers. Also, used by Developers and QA team to test the product APIs.
Involved in Performance Improvement team to investigate and improve various components (like Elastic Cache and Docker).
Improved GAD (High Availability) time performance by almost 50% - a critical component of HSA and a high priority requirement by customers.
Develop/Improve almost all of the product domain resources - Parity Groups, Pools, Volumes, Host Groups, Quorum Disks, etc.
Frequently collaborate with domain experts in Japan and US to plan for future releases.

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Software Engineer Intern - Industrial Internet of Things

May 2017 – Aug 2017 · 3 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

Worked on Lumada Studio – Dashboard and Data Visualization platform for IoT and Sales Enablement Toolkit – Website for sales and marketing team to showcase the power of Hitachi’s IoT platform.
Full Stack development of Lumada Studio in Javascript, Jquery, Node, and Python.
Build custom widgets using React and D3 to visualize the data coming from the Hitachi’s HIES Printer.
Wrote scripts to work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) like DynamoDB in Boto3 (AWS python SDK).
Developed the Notification feature using AWS SNS and Azure ServiceBus to send realtime SMS and Emails to the users whenever an alert is triggered by the IoT device, in Python.
Integrated Nicelabel (Third Party Printer Software) services such as Control Centre and Designer with the Studio using their SOAP APIs in Python.
Integrated Studio and Sales Enablement Toolkit services using their endpoint APIs.

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