About

Akshay Hegde is a Software Development Engineer at Amazon with 5.77 years of relevant experience. He has a strong background in software development, with expertise in Python scripting and Java development. Akshay is passionate about problem-solving in general, software development, and machine learning. In his current role at Amazon, Akshay is part of the backend team that manages Amazon Associates data while serving an API request rate of around 3 million+ per day. He has played a key role in the data migration for 20+ years old, diverse datasets with 1.5 billion+ records from an SQL-based database system to NoSQL DynamoDB tables. Akshay is also a major contributor to the design and development of a Java-based client notification system involving AWS SNS, which helps to immediately notify datastore clients about data changes. Akshay has developed a data validation mechanism in Java between multiple DynamoDB tables that have high-frequency updates. He has also played an important role in keeping the backend service ready and ensuring smooth operation for the Q4 2020 peak traffic. Prior to Amazon, Akshay worked as a Project Engineer at Wipro. He has hands-on experience in the Software Defined Networking (SDN) tool Opendaylight (ODL) and has experience in Python scripting for cluster monitoring and deployment of ODL. Akshay was also part of a team working on Element Management System for core network elements of LTE network at Samsung Bangalore and developed RESTful APIs in Java. Akshay has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His tech stack includes Software Engineering, Java, AWS, Backend, NoSQL, ML, and Python.