AKASH SHUKLA

• Worked with AWS EKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD for cloud-native deployment and infrastructure automation, and Jenkins for CI/CD and production troubleshooting.
• Designed, developed, and supported 12 backend services and 200+ REST APIs, supporting approximately 52K users and workloads up to 50K requests/second — representing approximately 60% of backend traffic for the services/APIs personally owned.
• Identified performance bottlenecks across distributed services by analyzing latency metrics, upstream dependencies, request transformation, and caching behavior — reducing API response times from 3–5 seconds to ≤2 seconds (up to ~60% improvement).
• Improved backend CPU and memory utilization by approximately 10–15% through caching, request-processing optimization, and elimination of redundant processing.
• Used Prometheus and Grafana with application metrics, logs, and service-level signals to monitor health, investigate production issues, and identify performance and reliability bottlenecks.
• Designed an automated incremental IDP synchronization architecture using changelog processing, scheduled execution, Redis distributed locking, and TTL-based failure protection to prevent duplicate work across multiple instances.
• Led the Vert.x framework upgrade across two production services, addressing vulnerabilities, dependency/code compatibility, and EKS deployment issues, followed by regression testing and production rollout.
• Performed Apache JMeter load and performance testing, analyzing latency, resource utilization, gateway behavior, and upstream dependencies to identify bottlenecks.
• Drove backend delivery for AthenaOne Mobile integrations with AthenaX and MDP, coordinating API dependencies, implementation, testing, and production readiness across three engineering teams.
• Implemented authentication and authorization using Spring Security and JWT to secure backend REST APIs with token-based access control.

• Tech Stack: Java, Spring Boot, JPA, Hibernate, REST/SOAP APIs, Groovy, Kotlin
• Built a SQL-like language translation platform enabling cloud migration of data-warehouse workloads by converting complex query logic between environments.
• Enhanced scalable Java-based web applications using efficient data structures and established software best practices.
• Refactored Java, Groovy, and Kotlin codebases and added unit tests to reduce regression risk.
• Integrated REST and SOAP APIs and microservices using Spring Boot, JPA, and Hibernate.
• Client: Datametica Solutions (Direct Employee) Payroll Company: Datametica Solutions Private Ltd.

• Tech Stack: Java, JSP, Struts, RESTful services, DB2, Oracle
• Performed CRUD operations on tables, functions, and stored procedures across DB2 and Oracle environments.
• Delivered new counter-product services from the ground up within the Location Database team.
• Client: See client engagements below Payroll Company: Tata Consultancy Services