About

Akash Kashyap is a highly experienced software engineer with a Master's degree in Software Engineering, specializing in Enterprise Distributed Systems and Cloud Technologies from San Jose State University. With over 7 years of experience in software development, Akash has worked with top companies like Intel Corporation, Dell, SecureSystems, Splunk, and currently works as a Senior Software Engineer at Twilio. Akash is a driven individual, passionate about technology and providing quality solutions. He is adept at writing well-structured, reusable, and easily maintainable code. He has been awarded the Dell Champion Award for developing utility tools for process improvement and reducing overall TAT. Akash has a strong technical skill set, including expertise in programming languages such as Go, Python, and Java. He is also proficient in frameworks like Django, Flask, and Spring MVC, messaging systems like Rabbit MQ and Apache Pulsar, and databases like MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, Postgres, and PGbouncer. He has experience with test management tools like JIRA, performance and web services testing tools like JMeter, Postman, SOAP UI, and Fiddler. He is also skilled in DevOps tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, AWS, Openshift, Jenkins, and Git, as well as observability tools like Prometheus, Graphana, Jaeger, and Splunk. In his previous role at Splunk, Akash worked on the backend implementation of threat intelligence and event-sequencing frameworks on Splunk Enterprise Security. He developed highly scalable, resilient microservices for Splunk Mission Control Platform and authored python modules to abstract out and handle authZ, authN, and token expirations with message broker. He also set up observability for services to achieve operational maturity and ensure SLIs and SLOs. Akash's education background includes a Master of Science (M.S.) in Software Engineering from San Jose State University, a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, and a high school degree from Oxford grammar school. Akash's relevant experience is 6.52 years, and his tech stack includes Software Engineering, Microservices, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform, Integration, infra, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, Spring, Jenkins, DevOps, Flask, Postgres, UI, Web, Django, Backend, and Java. Akash is always open to the right opportunity