About

Akshay Katole is an experienced Software Development Engineer II at Warner Bros. Discovery with over 7 years of expertise in software development using Java, Spring Boot, Play, Akka, Spring Cloud, Microservices, and Hibernate JPA. He is skilled in building large, scalable, and distributed systems with a deep understanding of microservices architecture and associated principles such as Event-based (Apache Kafka, NATS, and RabbitMQ) and REST (HTTP/HTTPS/HTTP2) microservices. Akshay is proficient in Cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services and Pivotal Cloud Foundry for development and has experience in build automation tools such as Git, Maven, Jenkins, and SonarQube to deliver high-quality software efficiently. He is experienced in working with relational (SQL/RDBMS) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB and Redis) to handle complex data structures and optimize performance. Akshay has hands-on experience in Unit testing framework Junit and Mockito to ensure robust code and is knowledgeable in Data Structures and Algorithms to improve software functionality. He is familiar with frontend technologies such as HTML/HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, and Angular to develop comprehensive applications. Akshay has worked on numerous successful projects in the Corporate import-export, Financial Services, Fintech and Payments & OTT/Media domain, delivering exceptional results. He has expertise in Ad insertion within HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) and DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) video delivery protocols used in the OTT (Over-The-Top) industry and is knowledgeable in the latest industry standards and best practices for seamless integration of advertisements into streaming video content on these platforms. Akshay has a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology/Computer Science with a Gold medal for securing the highest number of marks in Amravati University. He is skilled in programming languages like Java, JavaScript, frameworks like Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Play, Akka, messaging tools like Apache Kafka, Nats, databases like SQL (Oracle, PostgreSQL) & NoSQL(MongoDB, Redis), build tools like Git, Maven, sbt, Jenkins, Docker, and deployment platforms like Pivotal Cloud foundry(PCF), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes(k8s). He has worked on Spring projects like Spring Config Server, Spring Cloud Vault, Spring Data JPA, Spring AOP, Spring Web. Akshay has worked as a Software Development Engineer II at Mastercard, where he developed