Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Hobbies
Languages
Data-management
Cloud Computing
Monitoring and debugging
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Akhil GGV

Hyderabad

Summary

Seasoned Senior Software Developer with over six years of experience, functioning as a de facto team lead in a tech startup. Skilled in leading projects from concept to completion, translating product requirements into technical solutions, and mentoring junior team members. Proficient in Agile methodologies and committed to implementing industry best practices. Effective communicator with a talent for bridging the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineer

Spotnana
07.2021 - Current
  • Tech Owner for Agent microservice, spearheaded design and development of features such as Agent Dashboard, Agent Notes, and Trip Activity Logging, enhancing productivity and auditability.
  • Engineered horizontally extensible Quality Check engine using Temporal for state management, enhancing PNR quality assessment and automated actions.
  • Expanded Single-leg Air Search functionality to accommodate Multi-legged searches, ensuring system scalability and efficiency.
  • Created User Impersonation feature to streamline internal business operations and support.
  • Initiated foundation for Stripe API-based Payments infrastructure, setting stage for secure and efficient financial transactions.
  • Contributed to integration of post-booking workflows for Southwest NDC bookings, improving operational effectiveness and customer experience.

Principal Software Engineer

Smartcoin Financials Pvt Ltd
01.2018 - 06.2021
  • Core member of the founding tech team and worked closely with the CTO.
  • Complete ownership of Loan Unlock and Approval services. Responsible for design and development of all the components and making timely improvements to achieve better SLAs.
  • Improved approval processing times from 6 hrs at 90 percentile to under 1 min, also improving the scalability of the service to handle more requests at a time along the process.
  • Designed and implemented a framework to handle user categorization without making frequent deployments due to changes suggested based on risk analysis, improving maintainability and extensibility of the loan unlock and approval services and also providing a framework for experimentation to the risk analysis team as a bonus requirement.
  • Handled the complete transition of the credit scoring service to micro service based architecture, by separating components having resource starvation problems one by one.
  • Designed and implemented a state flow based risk pricing service to price user loan products based on their scores.
  • Engineered distributed system for tuning hyper parameters of our machine-learning models according to cost designed for our business requirement from scratch.
  • Built pipeline for warehousing data in BigQuery for analytics.
  • Designed and co-developed web based application to help Analytics team build machine-learning models for credit and risk analysis. Worked closely with Analytics team during this time to automate most of its components.
  • Improved throughput of sms-parsing by 5x and accuracy from 15% to about 70%.
  • Migrated OLAP tables from SQL to Cassandra and BigQuery for faster processing and cost saving.
  • Integrated chat SDK in the android client and corresponding message handling in the backend as well.
  • Wrote maintainable code in JAVA and Python (Less-frequent) on regular basis to help push new features and optimizations as part of credit-scoring application to production.
  • Helped new recruits with on-boarding and guided them along way.

Techincal Associate

Sears Holdings India
07.2017 - 01.2018
  • Worked as a part of the Content team.
  • Refactored the Image-Scoring service, making it process in a concurrent way and helped improve the response-times by 8 times with the same resources.
  • Implemented test framework in the Content Ranking service.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute Of Technology
Roorkee
04.2017

Intermediate -

Vijaya Ratna
Hyderabad
04.2013

Tenth Class -

Sainik School
Korukonda
04.2011

Skills

  • Web development
  • Micro-service development
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Engineering
  • Cloud Computing
  • Performance and scalability optimization

Hobbies

  • Playing football.
  • Reading books.

Languages

  • Java
  • Python
  • Bash

Data-management

  • MySQL
  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • Kafka
  • BigQuery
  • MongoDB
  • Cassandra
  • Snowflake
  • Elastic search
  • Temporal

Cloud Computing

  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Monitoring and debugging

  • ELK stack
  • Zipkin
  • Datadog
  • NewRelic

Timeline

Software Engineer

Spotnana
07.2021 - Current

Principal Software Engineer

Smartcoin Financials Pvt Ltd
01.2018 - 06.2021

Techincal Associate

Sears Holdings India
07.2017 - 01.2018

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute Of Technology

Intermediate -

Vijaya Ratna

Tenth Class -

Sainik School

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