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Akash Maharana

SDE-2 | Tesco

Bengaluru

10+ years of work experience

Tesco
Apr 20251 yr 6 mosPresent

Bengaluru

1. Designed and developed customer survey platform from scratch for Tesco stores and third-party petrol station POS systems. 2. Owned end-to-end delivery of survey services across four microservices, supporting traffic peaks of 5K TPS. 3. Implemented Kafka-based asynchronous workflows processing approximately 7M events/day. 4. Developed Reviews and Ratings services covering both read and write paths using Redis caching and Couchbase. 5. Built an event-driven AI review moderation pipeline leveraging Kafka and LLMs.
SAP
Dec 20244 mosMar 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Omnissa
Aug 20213 yrs 4 mosNov 2024

Bengaluru

1. Developed security and platform capabilities for Unified Access Gateway (UAG) supporting largescale enterprise deployments. 2. Led design and implementation of HSM integration with AWS CloudHSM and Thales HSM to externalize private key storage. 3. Modernized deployment architecture using cloud-init, replacing vendor-specific provisioning with cloud-agnostic workflows and enabling Nutanix deployment. 4. Contributed to FedRAMP and NIAP compliance through OS hardening, security improvements, and vulnerability remediation. 5. Participated in architecture reviews, cross-team collaboration, and mentoring activities.
Accolite
Dec 20182 yrs 9 mosAug 2021

Bangalore

Walmart (Client) - International Pricing Platform 1. Developed real-time pricing microservices acting as the source of truth for product pricing. 2. Contributed to migration from monolithic architecture to event-driven microservices. 3. Designed and developed APIs for critical pricing workflows with strict availability and SLA requirements. 4. Built distributed backend services using Java, Kafka, Azure, and Cosmos DB. British Telecom (Client) - Broadband Platform 1. Developed backend applications supporting broadband order workflows processing approximately 50K orders/day. 2. Provided production support and enhancements for customer provisioning systems
Infosys
Oct 20153 yrs 3 mosDec 2018

Pune Area, India

1. Developed enterprise backend applications for telecom clients including AT&T and Telstra. 2. Implemented customer order management and provisioning workflows using Java and Spring technologies.

Akash’s AI Stack

openai
openai
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Education

Veer Surendra Sai University Of Technology ( Formerly UCE ), Burla

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Production Engineering

Veer Surendra Sai University Of Technology ( Formerly UCE ), Burla

20114 yrs2015

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Headline

SDE-2 | Tesco

About

Backend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building distributed systems across retail, telecom, and enterprise security domains. Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Microservices, Azure, Redis, and NoSQL technologies with strong experience in designing scalable APIs, event-driven architectures, production ownership, and security-focused platforms.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

openai

Tabnine

Work experience

Senior Software Development Engineer at Tesco, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, 1. Designed and developed customer survey platform from scratch for Tesco stores and third-party petrol station POS systems. 2. Owned end-to-end delivery of survey services across four microservices, supporting traffic peaks of 5K TPS. 3. Implemented Kafka-based asynchronous workflows processing approximately 7M events/day. 4. Developed Reviews and Ratings services covering both read and write paths using Redis caching and Couchbase. 5. Built an event-driven AI review moderation pipeline leveraging Kafka and LLMs.

Senior Application Development Specialist at SAP, Dec 2024 - Mar 2025 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Member Of Technical Staff - III at Omnissa, Aug 2021 - Nov 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, 1. Developed security and platform capabilities for Unified Access Gateway (UAG) supporting largescale enterprise deployments. 2. Led design and implementation of HSM integration with AWS CloudHSM and Thales HSM to externalize private key storage. 3. Modernized deployment architecture using cloud-init, replacing vendor-specific provisioning with cloud-agnostic workflows and enabling Nutanix deployment. 4. Contributed to FedRAMP and NIAP compliance through OS hardening, security improvements, and vulnerability remediation. 5. Participated in architecture reviews, cross-team collaboration, and mentoring activities.

Senior Software Engineer at Accolite, Dec 2018 - Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bangalore, Walmart (Client) - International Pricing Platform 1. Developed real-time pricing microservices acting as the source of truth for product pricing. 2. Contributed to migration from monolithic architecture to event-driven microservices. 3. Designed and developed APIs for critical pricing workflows with strict availability and SLA requirements. 4. Built distributed backend services using Java, Kafka, Azure, and Cosmos DB. British Telecom (Client) - Broadband Platform 1. Developed backend applications supporting broadband order workflows processing approximately 50K orders/day. 2. Provided production support and enhancements for customer provisioning systems

Senior Systems Engineer at Infosys, Oct 2015 - Dec 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Pune Area, India, 1. Developed enterprise backend applications for telecom clients including AT&T and Telstra. 2. Implemented customer order management and provisioning workflows using Java and Spring technologies.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Production Engineering, Veer Surendra Sai University Of Technology ( Formerly UCE ), Burla

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