Akash Sadarang
Vice President/Principal Software Engineer
Hyderabad,TG
Summary
Technology Leader | Principal Software Engineer | Senior Staff Engineer with 13+ years of experience driving enterprise architecture, cloud-native modernization, and scalable software solutions. Expert in Java, Python, Microservices, Spring Boot, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes. Leading an 8-member engineering team, mentoring developers, and driving technical excellence, architectural innovation, and AI-powered engineering to deliver high-impact business solutions.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Vice President/Principal Software Engineer
JP Morgan Chase
07.2024 - Current
- Design and deliver two microservices for transaction enrichment and subledger management supporting customer-facing payment flows.
- Manage 8 team members through technical guidance and professional development, balancing delivery support with day-to-day coaching.
- Analyze legacy bottlenecks and collaborate with senior architects to shape a microservices design for ATM withdrawals, POS, and money movement.
- Partner with product, QA, and operations to define requirements, prioritize features, and align delivery timelines across stakeholders.
- Mentor junior developers, promote coding best practices, and lead code reviews to keep deliverables consistent and maintainable.
- Build and support services with Python, Java, Spring Boot, and Spring Security across Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS environments.
- Use Terraform, GitOps, MongoDB, Postgres, Grafana, Loki, and AWS services to support deployment, reliability, and monitoring.
Manager/Senior Software Engineer
MORGAN STANLEY
08.2022 - 07.2024
- Converted an AI/ML proof of concept into a full-time project that reduced trade request failure rate by 30-40% for customers.
- Analyzed 10-15 legacy code references weekly with AMA to identify modernization effort and migration scope.
- Built reusable modernization blueprints for Java, Mongo, S3, and Kafka migrations to speed team adoption across the firm.
- Developed AMA to map legacy tool usage and generate migration reports with effort scoring for project teams.
- Created ACE CLI for Java and Python projects to build container images for public and private cloud deployments.
- Enabled Gremlin as a self-service chaos engineering capability that teams installed with a single command.
Senior Software Engineer-I
SOPHOS
01.2021 - 08.2022
- Re-architected the Message History Page to reduce issues and failure rate by almost 90% for delivered, quarantined, and deleted mail views.
- Built a customer feedback API for false positive and false negative mail reviews, improving report and threat analysis accuracy by 20-30%.
- Designed and developed an Event Bus to SQS flow for the mail system, improving throughput by 5-7 seconds per mail and saving $700-$800 monthly.
- Resolved an S3 throttling bottleneck by restructuring the storage path, increasing mail receiving and delivery capacity enough to onboard 3 more customers.
- Configured Terraform scripts to deploy microservices into new regions, including Sydney, Japan, India, and Brazil, within 4-5 days.
- Created a Python migration script to move customer files between prefixes in the same S3 bucket, simplifying large-scale data maintenance.
- Implemented SSA and SSO across several microservices to strengthen service-to-service authorization and access control.
Software Developer
SIEMENS
04.2019 - 01.2021
- Cut scanning time from 15-18 minutes to 1-2 minutes and improved overall throughput by 50%, enabling additional customer onboarding.
- Streamed app files directly to scan engines, reducing EC2 storage usage by $1000/month for Siemens.
- Implemented request rate limiting and client capacity tracking, saving $5000/month in operating costs.
- Built an application to pull data from MindSphere and IoT time-series sources for downstream analysis and decision support.
- Developed secure SSH-based APIs to dispatch control signals between applications and connected physical devices.
- Created malware reporting, email alerting, and checksum whitelist cleanup APIs to speed response and rescan trusted files.
Software Consultant
DELOITTE
06.2017 - 04.2019
- Developed UploadService to copy zip publication files directly between servers, eliminating 6 physical FTP servers from the release path.
- Reduced file upload and publication time by 50% after implementing UploadService.
- Built LinkChecker service to identify broken links across the documentation site and route issues back to authors, improving search visibility from 5th to 1st page.
- Developed FeedbackService to capture positive and negative user feedback and notify publishers, reducing documentation errors by 30%.
- Automated client data collection with scheduled Linux shell cron jobs, reducing manual effort and improving recurring execution reliability.
- Supported dynamic publishing for VMWare documentation through the Content Deployment Framework and contributed to the CDF platform design.
- Applied Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Cloud OAuthServices, PCF, Docker, Netflix Eureka Services, Elastic Search, Logstash, Kafka, and Python across microservice delivery work.
Software Developer
HEWLETT-PACKARD
11.2014 - 06.2017
- Analyzed upstream and downstream workflow dependencies to keep information flowing in reverse order without errors.
- Applied JUnit testing and resolved complex change requests during MEC and YEC cycles to stabilize finance calculations.
- Migrated code from IE8 to IE11 and supported build, release, and configuration management activities.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Barkatullah University Institute Of Technology
Bhopal, India06-2014
Skills
Microservices architecture
System design
API design
Solution architecture
AI (Claude, ChatGPT, Custom GPT's)
Technical leadership
Team mentoring
Code review
AWS cloud services
Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform
GitOps
Cloud Deployment
Distributed systems
Event-driven architecture
CI/CD pipelines
Spring Boot
REST API design
Java
Python
Database schema design
Authentication and authorization
Spring Security
Query optimization
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Airflow
Timeline
Vice President/Principal Software Engineer
JP Morgan Chase
07.2024 - Current
Manager/Senior Software Engineer
MORGAN STANLEY
08.2022 - 07.2024
Senior Software Engineer-I
SOPHOS
01.2021 - 08.2022
Software Developer
SIEMENS
04.2019 - 01.2021
Software Consultant
DELOITTE
06.2017 - 04.2019
Software Developer
HEWLETT-PACKARD
11.2014 - 06.2017
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Barkatullah University Institute Of Technology