Achyutha Preksha
Summary
Senior Backend Engineer with over 8 years of experience in enterprise archiving systems, specializing in resilient data pipelines that handle millions of documents daily. Successfully led migrations from monolithic architectures to microservices, enhancing system scalability and maintainability. Implemented compliance-driven purge workflows and automated cloud deployments, achieved a 60% performance improvement by implementing concurrency and event-driven designs.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer 3
Smarsh India Private Limited
01.2021 - Current
- Developed a five-stage document purge pipeline processing millions of records per day, integrating policy evaluation, legal hold validation, Elasticsearch cleanup, Amazon S3 deletion, and audit reconciliation, ensuring SOX/GDPR compliance.
- Built a disposition service to publish expired, failed, and unheld documents to Kafka for downstream retention processing.
- Created a remediation tool to sync primary and disaster recovery environments, resolving data inconsistencies across distributed storage.
- Designed scheduled cleanup services with retry and recovery logic for failed deletions, improving data integrity and system health.
- Built a multi-tenant policy assignment workflow, processing bulk CSV uploads and publishing results to Kafka.
- Implemented compliance validation layers to prevent accidental data deletion, and optimized performance by 60% using concurrency.
- Integrated Swagger for API documentation and developed secure endpoints with authentication and authorization filters.
Software Engineer 2
Smarsh India Private Limited
01.2019 - 01.2021
- Migrated from PCF to Kubernetes, and automated deployments using Argo CD.
- Automated infrastructure monitoring and alerting with Terraform and Datadog.
- Successfully deployed these services to Pivotal Cloud Foundry using a Blue-Green deployment strategy, achieving zero downtime, and a seamless transition.
- Migrated our software from on-premises to the cloud by decomposing a monolithic application into multiple Spring Boot microservices, ensuring adherence to 12-factor app principles.
Platform Engineer 1
Smarsh India Private Limited
08.2017 - 08.2018
- Independently designed and implemented a comprehensive continuous integration (CI) system from scratch, utilizing Vagrant and a Bamboo CI cluster on bare-metal infrastructure. This system efficiently managed over 40 Git repositories.
- Integrated SonarQube for code quality checks, automated PR checks, and ensured seamless artifact deployment to Artifactory for production releases.
- Leveraged Ansible playbooks and roles to fully automate the setup of QA and development environments, reducing provisioning time from 2 to 3 weeks to just 10 minutes, and significantly improving efficiency and consistency across the infrastructure.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Sai Vidya Institute Of Technology
Karnataka, India06.2017
Skills
Languages / Frameworks: Java, Python, Shell, Terraform, Spring Boot
Databases: MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Kafka
DevOps / CI-CD: Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, PCF, CI/CD, Maven, Gradle, Bamboo, Vagrant, Ansible
Observability / Perf: Datadog, JMeter
Distributed Systems Stack: Zookeeper, Storm
Cloud / OS: AWS, Linux
Key Achievements
- Data consistency fixes: developed a tool to auto-correct mismatched data across DR and primary environments
- Award for excellence in security : Team recognition from our VP increasing the disposition performance up to 60% and multiple peer recognitions on automating complete CI/CD flow.
Timeline
Software Engineer 3
Smarsh India Private Limited
01.2021 - Current
Software Engineer 2
Smarsh India Private Limited
01.2019 - 01.2021
Platform Engineer 1
Smarsh India Private Limited
08.2017 - 08.2018
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Sai Vidya Institute Of Technology