About

Akilesh Sethu is a Senior Software Engineer at Grab with over 5 years of experience in microservices and monolith service architecture. He majored in Computer Engineering and graduated in 2012 from Nanyang Technological University. Akilesh is a backend engineer with a strong technical background in software engineering, data science, and DevOps. Currently, Akilesh works in real-time feature engineering and feedback for GrabFood Data Science team, where he has achieved significant improvements in Click-Through Rate using the Model Selection Layer with Multi-Arm Bandit. He has also developed a Model Serving template using cookiecutter, which is currently used for 8 projects in production. Akilesh has extensive experience in deployment automation of microservices and Apache Flink Jobs on Kubernetes, which are used by more than 20 services and 5 Flink jobs spread across 5 different business verticals in production. Before joining Grab, Akilesh worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Ninjavan, where he implemented and maintained multiple microservices and background workers. He introduced and standardized Kafka data flow across Ninjavan and implemented cross-microservice object sharing using Hazelcast and ProtoBuf. Akilesh was also responsible for introducing DevOps process using Ansible and formalized and implemented standards for all Ansible-based deployments. He worked in a team to containerize Ninja Van infrastructure using Docker, CoreOS and implemented an address scrapping tool using Play! Framework, Redis, and Ansible. Akilesh also worked as a Software Engineer at Bubbly, where he primarily worked on API and backend tasks related to the company's Telecom integrations with operations in India, Indonesia, Philippines, and 5 other countries. Akilesh has a diverse technical skill set that includes Software Engineering, Microservices, Backend Development, Ansible, Spark, Apache Airflow, Kubernetes, Data Science, Redis, Docker, Kafka, DevOps, infra, Android, MongoDB, Integration, and Scala. With over 10.78 years of relevant experience, he is a highly skilled and experienced professional in the industry.