About

Akash Gautam is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 7 years of relevant experience in software development, microservices, infrastructure deployment tooling, and ITOps management platform. He attended the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where he earned his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. He later pursued Graduate Coursework in Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Akash's current role is with Soroco, where he has made significant contributions to the company's Workflow Automation Platform. He developed an in-house microservice for workflow orchestration, responsible for implementation, design, and maintenance. The service was responsible for on-line scheduling and monitoring of workflow units based on resource availability and workunit priority across multiple agents. He successfully processed hundreds of thousands of work units across multiple clients' production environments. In addition to his work on the Workflow Automation Platform, Akash also developed a Windows-based agent to execute automation system modules from encrypted code published to an in-house custom repository. The agent is responsible for automated setup of execution environment, including isolated windows sessions, certificate-based authorization, logfile collection, and more. He deployed this agent on hundreds of Windows machines across 20 automation systems. Akash also worked on an IT operations management/AIOps platform, where he added features like metric forecasting and anomaly detection. He worked on exploratory data analysis and POCs for automatically generating models for time-series metrics using statistical methods like SARIMA, Prophet, Holt-Winters, and more. Akash has expertise in various tech stacks, including Software Engineering, Microservices, Ansible, CI/CD, Docker, Integration, AWS, Golang, Flask, Python, and Android. He has led a team of engineers for deployment, triaging, and debugging of all client-facing issues in a proprietary process mining system consisting of numerous microservices across multiple clients' environments. He built a unified portable installation package for central server setup on Linux comprising third-party dependencies and post-install setup scripts using Ansible. He also set up and standardized continuous integration pipelines by introducing containerization based on Docker. Overall, Akash Gautam is an accomplished Senior Software Engineer with a strong track record of developing and implementing innovative solutions for complex problems. He is a valuable asset to any team and is passionate about staying up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends in the field.