AI, Cloud, Backup
Akhil Nampelly
Software Engineer
Hyderabad,TG
Summary
AI Enthusiast, Impact driven Cloud & Distributed Systems Engineer experienced in designing and releasing secure, scalable backup solutions in Azure. Expertise spans ransomware protection (WORM), Defender integration, AKS/SQL backup, and global service migrations with zero-regression upgrades.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer 2
Microsoft
03.2021 - 10.2025
- Owned end-to-end design, implementation, and release of ransomware protection for Recovery Services Vault using WORM storage, ensuring secure and resilient backup infrastructure with focused areas on brownfield migration and backup continuation.
- Delivered Microsoft Defender for Cloud integration with Azure Recovery Services Vault (Private Preview), owning Protection Service API and Catalog—designed for resilience against threat-driven changes through improved catalog architecture and background processing.
- Built AKS cluster disk vault tier backup capabilities in Azure Backup using distributed data mover microservice platform using Large collections backed by blobs.
- Executed a seamless migration of the Protection service (a core component of Azure Backup) deployed across 50 regions and over 200,000 instances, handling petabytes of daily data transformations, millions of API calls, and multiple background processes. Upgraded from Storage Library v9 to v12 without a single regression.
- Led the productionization of an intern prototype into a client library that enabled our 1P MySQL customers to integrate with Azure Backup—prioritized reliability, observability, and throughput improvements to support continuous TB-scale ingestion for production customers.
- Served as Technical Lead for CoreXT → MSBuild migration across 20+ repositories, mentoring 15 developers, and delivering a 30–50% build time reduction with scalable, standardized build pipelines.
- Contributed to the Hackathon project, Metadata Backup, at the partition level to support the backup of internal catalogs.
- Contributed to a PoC for an AI test generator using Microsoft AI packages.
Software Development Engineer
Amazon
04.2019 - 11.2020
- Reduced critical API latency by 60% (from 500 ms to 200 ms) by architecting and implementing distributed locking and caching solutions, significantly decreasing network calls.
- Maintained high system availability and performance by resolving an average of 65 production tickets per week during on-call rotations.
- Optimized key business processes within the Customer Returns Transportation team, leading to multiple successful outcomes, and high stakeholder satisfaction.
- Managed and executed high-priority development tasks, ensuring timely project completion through effective effort distribution and prioritization.
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science And Engineering
JNTUH College of Engineering Hyderabad
Hyderabad, India06-2018
Skills
C#
Interests
Accomplishments
- Star award for best team player at Microsoft
- Two times spot award for extraordinary performance at Amazon
- 2205 All India Rank in GATE exam 2018
- One of 30 selected students selected for ISRO Andhra Pradesh visit in 2012
Activities
Badminton, Gym, Movies
Timeline
Software Engineer 2
Microsoft
03.2021 - 10.2025
Software Development Engineer
Amazon
04.2019 - 11.2020
B.Tech - Computer Science And Engineering
JNTUH College of Engineering Hyderabad