Akhilesh Yadav

Senior Software Engineer

Gurugram, Haryana, India14 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 14 years of software engineering experience.
Expert in microservices architecture and cloud-native solutions.
Proven track record in mentoring and team leadership.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce backend architect with expertise in scalable systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

ScalabilityDistributed Systems

Other Skills

NoSQLTeam LeadershipAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache SparkRelational DatabasesSoftware ObservabilityApache KafkaTeam MentoringSystems DesignScalable ArchitectureCross-functional Team LeadershipSystem ArchitectureMentoringSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Data Modeling

About

Senior Software Development Engineer with over 14 years of experience, currently driving innovation at Kotak Mahindra Bank. Focused on designing and implementing scalable, highly available backend systems for lending platforms, while leveraging expertise in microservices architecture, AWS, and Apache Spark. Led the architecture and launch of a microservices-based Personal Loan DIY journey, significantly reducing turnaround times and enhancing operational efficiency. Committed to fostering technical excellence and mentoring teams to deliver secure, reliable systems with improved performance and scalability. Passionate about clean code, reusable patterns, and building robust engineering solutions.

Experience

14 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Kotak mahindra bank

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

Designed and implemented highly available, scalable backend systems for bank and e-commerce applications.
Developed lending platform, enhancing security and user experience.
Mentored junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning and technical excellence.
Optimized latency-sensitive systems, significantly improving performance and reliability.

ScalabilityDistributed Systems

Amazon

Software Engineer - 2

Nov 2013 – Mar 2023 · 9 yrs 4 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India · On-site

At Amazon, I contributed to both the Seller Registration platforms and Kindle Device - building fraud detection frameworks and on-boarding services that improved compliance, accelerated seller enablement, and strengthened global system resilience.
As part Seller On-boarding platform-
Owned implementation and delivery of the seller registration experience for US, EU and JP marketplaces.
Redesigned and split monolithic Registration service to reduce the operational burden on team.
Developed generic data collections units.
As a part of Amazon LAB126 team-
Worked on platform ,framework and application layer for Software updates of E-Ink devices.
Worked on improving device software stability.Analyzed process memory consumption ,OOM, device hung and process crashes issues and wrote new daemon for signal handler to improve device stability. • • For supporting Native CRL revoked list ,for CVM, wrote X509TrustManager and created a core parsing service to automate the crash dump parsing.
Wrote new framework services , worked on application layer to develop new features and created/ improved many UI components.

NoSQLDistributed Systems

Huawei technologies india pvt. ltd

Software Engineer

Jun 2011 – Aug 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos · bangalore , India

Worked on telecom domain software i.e. "Dynamic Tariffing System" which analysis past call records and by using curve fitting algorithm generate dynamic discounts to maximize the revenue of telecoms service providers by reducing network utilization fluctuations) ,"CSP(Customer Service Point)"
and "IPCC(Internet platform for customer care)" which provide software solution for call center management , trouble ticket flow and interactive voice response system.