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Akhil Chaudhari

Akhil Chaudhari

Bengaluru

Summary

Experienced Software Engineering Leader with 13+ years of designing and delivering scalable, high-performance applications in .NET, C#, and cloud technologies. Adept at architecting microservices, optimizing production systems, and leading teams to build innovative solutions.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Lead Consultant

Thoughtworks
Bengaluru
07.2025 - Current
  • Leading a 10-member cross-functional team (developers and QA), driving architecture decisions, delivery execution, and quality standards across the project lifecycle.
  • Leading the re-engineering of a legacy Loan Management System into microservices, defining solution architecture for loan enquiry and reference data services using REST, Elasticsearch, SQL, and SOAP adapters.
  • Designing API orchestration and adapter layers to integrate new microservices with legacy loan systems, ensuring backward compatibility and enabling phased modernization.

Technical Lead

Eneco
Rotterdam
06.2024 - 06.2025
  • Developed a home and commercial energy management system enabling smart EV charging and battery management.
  • Engineered Azure Functions to ingest realtime telemetry from Kafka streams & Event Hubs.
  • Designed REST APIs to control EVs, optimizing charging efficiency and cost savings.
  • Developed session profiling algorithms for smart charging using Azure Data Explorer resulting in 20% customer and organizational savings.
  • Created Grafana dashboards for real-time monitoring of Azure infrastructure and device session analytics.

Engineering Manager

PCR Financial Aggregation
Breda
03.2022 - 05.2024
  • Led a team of 4 developers to build a fintech platform for data aggregation & reconciliation.
  • Scaled data ingestion pipelines to process 5 million+ records daily, achieving 10x performance improvement.
  • Developed a configurable HTTP scraper replacing UiPath, enabling seamless harvesting of documents from web portals & APIs.
  • Established event-driven data pipelines, ensuring synchronization of millions of data points across databases.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, streamlining deployment processes and reducing downtime.

Senior Software Engineer

Nuance Communications
Pune
03.2019 - 03.2022
  • Led a team of four developers, overseeing their work on healthcare products focusing on Exam/Follow-Up workflow and HL7 Processing.
  • Led a team in migrating a monolithic healthcare application to a cloud-based microservices architecture using .NET Core & Azure.
  • Migrated on-prem SQL Server to Azure SQL Managed Instance for improved scalability.
  • Optimized HL7 messaging disk queue processing, increasing throughput by 150%.

Software Engineer

Wolters Kluwer
Pune
12.2016 - 03.2019
  • Developed a Tax and Accounting product for Tax filing and Practice Management.
  • Optimized Ul performance for contact details, improving page load time by 120%.
  • Migrated legacy PHP features to .NET for better maintainability & performance.
  • Built an Outlook plugin for seamless email & attachment storage in Azure Blob Storage.

Systems Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
Pune
01.2013 - 12.2016
  • Developed a merchandising tool for managing content across all Microsoft stores.
  • Implemented a parser to dynamically read various APIs and parse responses into a generic format using JSON Path.
  • Designed and implemented an SSIS package to transform and migrate forty million rows of data daily, ensuring efficient data management and processing.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

Bhilai Institute of Technology
Durg
06-2012

Skills

  • C# and NET technologies
  • Microservices architecture
  • REST APIs and OData
  • HTML and CSS
  • Angular and jQuery
  • Swagger
  • Unit testing with xUnit
  • Mocking with Moq
  • SpecFlow
  • Azure Functions and Web Apps
  • API management with APIM
  • Azure Storage
  • Service Bus and Event Hubs
  • Kafka integration
  • Application Insights
  • Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Azure
  • MongoDB
  • ETL with SSIS
  • Data analytics with Azure Data Explorer
  • Grafana and Power BI
  • Elasticsearch
  • Git
  • JIRA and Confluence
  • Azure DevOps Pipelines

Certification

TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Training (Foundation and Practitioner).

Timeline

Lead Consultant

Thoughtworks
07.2025 - Current

Technical Lead

Eneco
06.2024 - 06.2025

Engineering Manager

PCR Financial Aggregation
03.2022 - 05.2024

Senior Software Engineer

Nuance Communications
03.2019 - 03.2022

Software Engineer

Wolters Kluwer
12.2016 - 03.2019

Systems Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
01.2013 - 12.2016

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

Bhilai Institute of Technology
Akhil Chaudhari