About

Akshay Kumar is a highly skilled and experienced Backend Software Engineer with over six years of professional experience building scalable systems, data pipelines, workflow applications, and first and third-party integrations. He is currently working as a Back End Developer at flaconi, where he provides an in-house solution for SEO to manage over 100k URLs on the website, improves the performance of existing services, and builds a service to handle pricing according to the omnibus directive. He is also actively involved in technical recruitment processes to build the team and advocates for newer and more efficient engineering practices. Akshay has worked with a wide range of technologies, including Node.js, Express, Typescript, RoR, Serverless, Microservices, AWS, Ruby, Javascript, DevOps, infra, test, RabbitMQ, MySQL, and Jenkins. He has a strong working knowledge of application development, API and DB performance improvements, DevOps, and infrastructure reliability. He is an advocate for engineering principles and best practices across the organization and provides constructive feedback to team members for their growth. In his previous roles, Akshay worked as a Software Engineer at granicus, where he developed and owned a microservice that performed all the first-party and third-party integrations and analyzed and improved API performance and test coverage. He also collaborated with leadership on scrum implementation. At unitedhealth, he worked on product development and bug fixes, EMR integrations, and transitioning product development from the US to India. He actively participated in planning, grooming, and retro activities. Akshay holds a Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology. He is a curious learner, open to learning new languages and technologies, and enjoys building software that makes a difference in people's lives. With his rooted fundamentals and vast experience, he has had a great career and made trustworthy friends while building great software.