Akash Kushwaha

Co-Founder

New Delhi, Delhi, India18 yrs 5 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Over a decade of experience in backend development.
Expert in scalable and high-performance systems.
Led AI initiatives to enhance developer productivity.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineering Expert with a focus on scalable SaaS solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsSystem ArchitectureAi IntegrationCloud InfrastructureJava DevelopmentMicroservicesCost OptimizationBackend DevelopmentProject ManagementSolution Architecture

Other Skills

Team LeadershipDebuggingCursor AIgenAIPythonAmazon Web Services (AWS)KubernetesPostgreSQLkubelessserverlessApache KafkaJavaTypeScriptMentoringtech lead

About

Technical Architect | Backend Engineering Expert With more than a decade of experience in backend development, I specialize in designing and optimizing high-performance, scalable, and asynchronous systems. My expertise spans Java, JavaScript, DSA, microservices, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems, enabling me to build robust architectures that drive business success. Key Areas of Expertise: - Scalable Backend Systems (Spring Boot, Play Framework) - Cloud & DevOps (AWS, Kafka, Elastic, Kubernetes) - Data Pipelines & Performance Optimization (ETL, Storm, Spark, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) - Startup & Product Development (MVP, Growth, Consulting)

Experience

18 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 1 mo

Current Experience

Stashfin

Principal Engineer/Architect

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

Tech Debt Team Leader: RCA to stabilize production for cascading failure; System review for cost optimization. Design and code reviews across teams.
AI initiatives: Leveraged Cursor AI to migrate critical service from PHP to Python. Led the adoption of AI for developer productivity.

Distributed SystemsTeam LeadershipDebuggingSystem ArchitectureCursor AIgenAI

Consultancy

Tech Consultant

Mar 2024 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote

Dev, scaling, performance and GenAI infra consulting for startups.

Java DevelopmentAmazon Web Services (AWS)KubernetesPostgreSQLkubelessserverless+2

Hometown ticketing, inc

Senior Backend Engineer

May 2023 – Feb 2024 · 9 mos · Remote · Remote

Optimized microservices and database with Datadog and pganalyze to reduce AWS cost. Added new features. Sprint planning and mentoring activities.

MicroservicesJavaAmazon Web Services (AWS)PostgreSQLTypeScriptMentoring+2

Intel for binance

Co-Founder

Mar 2022 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

Crypto signal platform, copy trading from profitable trades, aggregated crypto news from twitter.

FlutterFirebaseMicroservicesJavaREST APIsPostgreSQL+1

Manta

2 roles

Software Engineer

Mar 2019 – Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Backend engineer for scaling and performance.

JavaScalabilityBackend Development

Software Engineer

Jun 2013 – Mar 2018 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Columbus, Ohio Area

Platform Rewrite:
Built microservices with asynchronous play framework. (Java, Play framework, Spring, SOA, TDD, MongoDB, Postgres, HBase)
Data science: Prototype for
Semantic search and tagging on company data. (Java, UIMA, OpenNLP, Lucene)
Finding related companies with existing industry hierarchy. (Java, neo4j)
Data pipelines:
Worked on ETL pipelines for data cleaning, enrichment and deduplication. (Java, MapReduce, Pig, Storm)
Built a testing framework for automated testing of ETL process. Java.

Chain cloud

Cofounder and CTO

Mar 2018 – Feb 2019 · 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Developed a Cloud based ERP for tracking distributor’s sales, purchase and inventory forecasting for India's big FMCG brand.
Designed and developed Java system on AWS as lead developer.
Developed integration with SAP and Tally.
Built and managed developer and support team.
Played key role in feature negotiations and project rollout plan with Client Team.

Project ManagementDelegationTeam LeadershipSolution Architecture

Cincinnati children's hospital medical center

Developer/ Research Assistant, Bioinformatics Dept.

Jan 2011 – May 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Cincinnati, OH

Research:
Research work and prototyping for experiments on medical text/XML data (AERS drug prescriptions, dailymed, generif and pubmed) using tools like hadoop, mahout, AWS, lucene, NLP lingpipe, metamap etc.
Development:
Maintained existing systems and developed new in-house database systems in java.
1. AERS Research Data Retrieval System:-
http://research.cchmc.org/aers
Designed and developed an information retrieval system to facilitate item set mining research on patients records. Salient features:
Lucene based index for keyword search and access to records.
Faceted search index to speed up statistics generation for Association rules.
Algorithm to map noisy prescription text to drugs ontology.
Data prepossessing pipeline for adding new data to system.
Compressed index to half-size using custom mapping of concepts.
Simple interactive UI's for different data presentation needs.
2. BacteriaMine:
http://insights.cchmc.org/insightsmine
Built this webapp for bacteria gene data using intermine framework.
Wrote ETL’s to integrate data from multiple sources in our PostGreSQL database.

University of cincinnati

Web Application Developer

Jul 2010 – Dec 2010 · 5 mos · Cincinnati, Ohio Area

https://ucfilespace.uc.edu/
Modified file hosting architecture to implement file sharing services.
Added new features and fixed lots of bugs in ruby and javascript code.

Amd

Microprocessor Design Engineer

Jul 2006 – Aug 2009 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Worked on implementation and feasibility analysis of x86 core for high performance server architectures. Proposed and independently developed prototypes for multiple major design flow automation's to reduce custom design efforts.