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Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft | Cloud & AI | Java Backend | Platform Engineering | FinTech | IIT Madras

About

I'm a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and financial technology solutions across Microsoft, Oracle Financial Services, Groww, Rupeek, and Jio. At Microsoft, I work on Cloud + AI initiatives powering Copilot and Microsoft 365, where I own mission-critical identity and token services responsible for scalability, reliability, security, and cost optimization for billion-scale conversational workloads. Along the way, I've led platform modernization efforts, delivered significant cloud cost optimizations, built AI-powered engineering tools, and driven high-impact initiatives from architecture through production. Before Microsoft, I spent over six years in FinTech, building payment, UPI, lending, subscriptions, and enterprise financial platforms serving millions of users. Working across startups and global enterprises has given me a broad perspective on engineering from moving fast with small teams to operating large-scale, highly reliable production systems. My areas of expertise • Distributed Systems & Microservices • Java, Spring Boot & Backend Engineering • Cloud Architecture (Azure), APIs & Platform Engineering • Kafka, SQL/NoSQL & Event-Driven Systems • Scalability, Performance, Reliability & Production Operations • System Design & Technical Leadership • AI-powered Developer Productivity & Agentic AI I enjoy solving complex engineering problems, simplifying large systems, and building software that scales reliably. Whether it's designing a new platform, improving production reliability, or mentoring engineers, I believe great engineering is about balancing technical excellence with business impact. I hold an M.S. (Research) in Computer Science from IIT Madras, specializing in Machine Learning and Distributed Computing, and have published research with IEEE on large-scale graph processing. Outside of my day-to-day work, I actively mentor engineers on system design, backend engineering, interview preparation, and career growth. I enjoy helping engineers navigate career transitions and become stronger technical leaders. I'm always happy to connect with engineers, founders, recruiters, and technology leaders working on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, AI platforms, and fintech.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

aistudio

anthropic apis

claude code

cursor

github copilot

Microsoft Copilot

Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Cloud + AI (Copilot Studio, Azure Bot Service) Focusing on the design and development of the Azure Bot Service and Copilot (Agents). In this role, I help create innovative solutions that empower businesses to integrate intelligent automation and conversational AI into their workflows.

SDE 3 at Groww, India, Dec 2022 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bangalore Urban, UPI & Bill Payments: Owned design and development of Autofetcher, User Attributes, User Experience, Subscription, Bill Management, and Biller services impacting millions of Groww users. Contributed to UPI payments, building user pay-onboarding and orchestrator services. Active in design discussions, development, deployments, code reviews, and technical talks. Set up engineering practices - on-call system, observability with Grafana and New Relic, and deployment cycles.

SDE 3 at Rupeek, Aug 2021 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Led the logistics team and built/owned Insight, an internal tool for scheduling, slotting, and tracking of ongoing transactions, and a Trip Management service tracking destinations for loan managers. Partnered with Project Managers on feature understanding, solutioning, design closure, and early dependency call-outs. Designed DB schemas and service designs (Trip Management, loan-manager fungibility). Served as scrum master - ran stand-ups, coached members, removed roadblocks, and drove resiliency reviews. Contributed to org building as an active interviewer and mentor to new team members.

Senior Software Engineer at Reliance Retail, Dec 2019 - Aug 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Built backend microservices for AJIO e-commerce using Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, SQL, Redis, Kafka, ELK, Git, and Jenkins. Designed, developed, and launched critical Cart and Wishlist microservices, decoupling them from the Hybris monolith. Delivered a flexible, modular, scalable Cart service improving cart response times and p95/p99 performance. Developed an orchestrator for the Cart to communicate with upstream services and map responses effectively. Mentored juniors, delegated tasks, and created opportunities for quality growth. AJiO: worked as a backend developer to expose microservices, that involved working with Java, Springboot, Hibernate, SQL Database, Redis, Kafka, ELK, Git, Jenkins. • Designed, Developed, and launched critical micro services Cart and Wishlist to move it out from monolithic system hybris • Cart microservice is flexible, modular and scalable. It has improved response times for cart operations, performance (p95, p99) • Developed orchestrator for the Cart to communicate with upstream services, to validate and map their response in an effective manner. • Mentoring juniors, delegating tasks, giving them opportunities to improve and produce quality work

Application Developer - 2 at Oracle in Financial Services, Jul 2018 - Dec 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Built backend web services for a Trade project using Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and Oracle SQL Developer. Integrated and tested Hyperledger Fabric with Block Listener and Java adapter, coordinating across office teams. 1) Worked on a ‘Trade Project’ as a backend developer to expose web services, my role involved to work with Java, Springboot and Oracle SQL Developer 2) Completed feasibility study of Apache Camel as a framework for the development of Java Adaptor to connect the blockchain 3) Integrated and tested Hyperledger fabric with Java adapter while co-ordinating with cross office teams 4) Mentored newly hired resources to work on feasibility study of dynamic input through Apache camel

Associate Software Engineer at DXC Technology (Erstwhile CSC India), Jul 2012 - Sep 2014 · 2 y 2 mo, Indore, Madhya Pradesh

Education

Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore

Public links

linkedin.com: https://linkedin.com/in/akashhainiitm