About

Amey Joshi is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies with over 9 years of relevant experience. He is responsible for developing and designing tooling for automating the installation of a bare minimal operating system on servers remotely and securely, resulting in saving over $1M yearly for Akamai. He also gathers requirements from NOCC operators to understand their pain points in operating and maintaining the global Akamai server fleet of 250K servers and develops internal tooling to help NOCC/reliability engineers. Amey is proficient in developing RESTful APIs for managing Akamai Kubernetes clusters using Python, Flask/Django, Postgresql, and Pytest. He also develops frontend React apps based on material-ui for providing mechanisms for managing a subset of Kubernetes resources by consuming backend RESTful APIs using React, JavaScript, and Material-ui. Additionally, Amey develops features for the command-line client in Python for managing Akamai Kubernetes clusters. He is responsible for developing strategies, deployment plans, and tooling for migrating data for activating new clusters and new feature rollouts. Amey also diagnoses and debugs application problems developed on Akamai internal Heroku-like PaaS platform and manages deployment and releases, including database migration, packaging issues, and underlying platform updates. He investigates performance issues for RESTful web applications from UI/REST API to database layer and experiments with changes throughout the stack to understand performance and investigate strategies to make response times better. Amey also analyzes application performance using locust, a Python load testing tool, to understand performance bottlenecks for Spring Boot/Cassandra-based applications considering long-term goals of making APIs faster. Before joining Akamai, Amey worked as a Software Engineer at HPE Simplivity and as a Research Assistant at Northeastern University's Storage Lab. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pune. Amey is proficient in various tech stacks, including Python, UI, Kubernetes, test, Django, JavaScript, Cassandra, Spring Boot, Flask, Frontend, Backend, Web, and Research Scientist.