Akshay Walvekar
Senior Manager, Applications
Pune,MH
Summary
Forward-thinking Senior Manager adept at managing teams of 20 employees with 4 direct reports to accomplish challenging objectives. Imparts clear vision to guide cohesive, high-performing teams.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager, Applications
Zoominfo Inc
Pune, Maharashtra
04.2023 - Current
- Managed 4 teams (5 members each) working from India, US and Ukraine.
- Designed architecture for new services using Java Springboot which used Kafka Kstreams for aggregation purposes.
- Worked as Incident commander to resolve critical incidents quickly, raised through PagerDuty across organization
- Implemented CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, ArgoCD and Kubernates for 1 of major pillar product of ZoomInfo Inc.
- Broken down monolith applications in separate micro services for backend and mono repo for front end deployment.
- Developed django based internal service for developers to notify them about P1/P2 bugs SLA through slack. This was then adopted across organization.
- Mentored junior staff members for skill development and career progression within organization
Manager, Applications
Zoominfo, Inc
Melville
12.2021 - 04.2023
- Managed and mentored 3 teams from different regions India, US and Ukraine
- Implemented Agile ceremonies like pre-grooming, grooming, daily scrum meetings, sprint planning and sprint retro and demo across all teams from scratch
- Planned and successfully implemented 1 of pillar product of ZoomInfo Inc, from scratch using Django, Django Rest Framework, Python and Celery
- Integrated different APIs like Salesforce, Snowflake, Enrich Vendor APIs etc. in new service.
Senior Software Engineer
RingLead : Zoominfo Company
Melville
06.2020 - 12.2021
- Designed and developed Lead Routing which routes sales leads to its correct owner dynamically using data points. Technology used Django (DRF), Gunicorn, Celery
- Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in Django, Django Rest Framework and working to improve overall team performance.
- Configured, deployed and maintained, development and production environment using Ngnix, Gunicorn, Nagios and Socket IO on AWS EC2 server
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Education
Master of Science - Management Information Systems
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ 08.2015 - 12.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering
Pune 08.2008 - 07.2012
Skills
Python
Django, Django Rest Framework
Celery
React
AWS
Jenkins, ArgoCD
Java, Springboot
Typescript
Kafka
Kubernetes
Team leadership
Decision-making
Strategic planning
LLM Integration
Generative AI Applications
Timeline
Senior Manager, Applications
Zoominfo Inc
04.2023 - Current
Manager, Applications
Zoominfo, Inc
12.2021 - 04.2023
Senior Software Engineer
RingLead : Zoominfo Company
06.2020 - 12.2021
Master of Science - Management Information Systems
Stevens Institute of Technology
08.2015 - 12.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering
08.2008 - 07.2012