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Akash Shukla

Engineering@Zepto | Golang | Python | Backend | Distributed Systems

Bengaluru

6+ years of work experience

Zepto
Dec 20241 yr 9 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Built and scaled backend services in Golang/Python with Kafka, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes to support order workflows. - Delivered high-impact features like multi-shipment COD, shipment breakdown, and event-driven services, improving fulfilment and operational efficiency.
BeautifulCode
Nov 20222 yrs 1 moNov 2024

BeautifulCode
Sep 20211 yr 3 mosNov 2022

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

- Build and optimise globally distributed, event-driven services in Golang on GCP (GKE, Pub/Sub, Bigtable, BigQuery), handling billions of events with low latency and high reliability. - Design resilient data pipelines for real-time ingestion, enrichment, and routing of user activity events to downstream systems at scale
Tata Consultancy Services
Sep 20201 yr 1 moSep 2021

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Contributed as a software developer, overhauling the entire UI from a native Java-based to a React-based modern frontend design.
HashedIn
Feb 20208 mosSep 2020

Bangalore

1. Intensive learning Program 2. Created POCs for the latest requirements.
GitHub
@akashshukl

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Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering

UTTARANCHAL UNIVERSITY, DEHRADUN

20164 yrs2020

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Headline

Engineering@Zepto | Golang | Python | Backend | Distributed Systems

About

As a Senior Software Engineer at Zepto, I work on building and scaling backend services using Golang and Python, alongside technologies like Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kubernetes. My contributions include delivering impactful features such as multi-shipment COD and shipment breakdown functionalities to enhance operational efficiency and fulfilment processes. With a Bachelor's degree in Computer Software Engineering, my expertise is rooted in backend development, distributed systems, and infrastructure engineering. My goal is to leverage modern tools and technologies like AWS, GCP, Golang, and Python to contribute to scalable, high-impact solutions. Open for SDE-3/ Lead Engineer role.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

codex

cursor

deepseek

ChatGPT

Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at Zepto, Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Built and scaled backend services in Golang/Python with Kafka, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes to support order workflows. - Delivered high-impact features like multi-shipment COD, shipment breakdown, and event-driven services, improving fulfilment and operational efficiency.

Senior Software Engineer at BeautifulCode, Nov 2022 - Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Software Engineer at BeautifulCode, Sep 2021 - Nov 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, - Build and optimise globally distributed, event-driven services in Golang on GCP (GKE, Pub/Sub, Bigtable, BigQuery), handling billions of events with low latency and high reliability. - Design resilient data pipelines for real-time ingestion, enrichment, and routing of user activity events to downstream systems at scale

Systems Engineer @TCS Digital at Tata Consultancy Services, Sep 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Contributed as a software developer, overhauling the entire UI from a native Java-based to a React-based modern frontend design.

Software Engineer Intern at HashedIn, Feb 2020 - Sep 2020 · 8 mos, Bangalore, 1. Intensive learning Program 2. Created POCs for the latest requirements.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, UTTARANCHAL UNIVERSITY, DEHRADUN

Public links

github: https://github.com/akashshukl

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