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
Durg06-2012
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