About

Akhil Pillai is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 9 years of experience in the field of Big Data, Data Analytics, Digital Advertising, Networking, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. He is a result-oriented professional who has worked on building scalable and high-performance enterprise systems. Currently, he is working on building Next-Gen Security Analytics Platform at Exabeam. Akhil's roles and responsibilities include designing and implementing high-performance Spark-based Data Ingestion from different Data Sources, performance characterization and enhancement of Spark Data Ingestion jobs, performance tuning of Kafka Connect based Data Sink Connectors, and designing and implementing an extensible and pluggable data transformation library to import/export data into/from Ampool. He has also designed and implemented an Advertisement Data Aggregator Layer to search, sort and filter the aggregated data in fraction of seconds, web services for Advertisement Campaign creation, and Advertisement cache based on OpenRTB Advertisement attributes. Akhil has built a highly scalable, extensible, and pluggable XMPP server compliant with RFC6120 and a Distributed Routing Framework to route requests to different XMPP components like Presence Manager, Media Manager, Disco/IQ Manager. Akhil has worked at several companies, including Exabeam, Ampool, and RhythmOne. At Ampool, he focused on performance tuning and optimization of data load from remote data sources, implementation of data transformation layer, Ampool Aerospike Connector, and Spark Job Server. At RhythmOne, he designed and implemented web services for Advertisement Campaign creation, implemented Advertisement cache based on OpenRTB Advertisement attributes, and designed and implemented an Advertisement Data Aggregator Layer to search, sort and filter the aggregated data in fraction of seconds. Akhil has a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree from MIT COE and has completed his HSC from Abasaheb Garware College. He is skilled in Java, Scala, Go, Python, Servlets, Maven, Jersey, Jetty, SpringBoot, Hibernate, Linux (Ubuntu/CentOS), AWS, vCentre, Docker, VirtualBox, and more. Akhil is a proficient Software Engineer with expertise in Spark, Big Data, ML, Data Scientist, Search, Web, Kafka, Spring Boot, Integration, Python, and Scala. He has a relevant experience of 10.11 years.