About

Akhil Das is an experienced Engineer, Hacker, Author, and Speaker with a passion for distributed computing, scaling, and performance optimization. He currently works as a Development Manager at agoda, where he leads the development of tools for finding, training, optimizing, and enabling ML features in production. He has also built and deployed scalable ML pipelines that serve over 5M requests per second. Akhil is an expert in Spark, Scala, and data science, and has experience crunching down terabytes of data on one of the largest Spark clusters in the world. He has also applied sophisticated machine learning algorithms to increase revenue. Akhil's interest in exploiting things and hunting down vulnerabilities has led him to develop a deep understanding of security issues and how to address them. Akhil has a Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology from Cochin University and a Diploma in Computer Hardware and Maintenance from Model Poly Technic College Vadakara. He has over 9 years of relevant experience in ML, senior software engineering, microservices, software engineering, Spark, Scala, and data science. Akhil is a sought-after speaker and author, with a reputation for delivering insightful and engaging talks on a wide range of topics related to distributed computing, scaling, and performance optimization. He is also an accomplished hacker and has contributed to several open-source projects.