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Backend Engineer | Distributed Systems · AI/LLM | Python · Django · FastAPI | SDE-II @6sense | MLH Fellow ’21

About

Backend engineer with 3+ years building high-scale financial and AI systems in production. At Bright Money, I scaled 22+ microservices serving 500K+ users and 1M+ accounts daily — achieving 99.99% uptime and reducing operational costs by $33K/month through automated data hygiene flows. I also led the end-to-end banking partner integration (HLD → production), directly improving user conversion by 15%. At 6sense, I architected a full-stack DNC compliance module (projected $10M business impact) and owned the LLD for an AI Email Writer integrated with the Sales Intelligence credit system. Stack: Python · Django · FastAPI · Kafka · Celery · Docker · Kubernetes · PostgreSQL · AWS · GCP · LangChain · RAG · Agentic AI MLH Fellow · Class of 2021 | Barclays Tech Innovation Challenge Winner

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

cursor

geminicli

openai

Work experience

Software Development Engineer II at 6sense, Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru

SDE 1 at Bright Money, Aug 2023 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, ▪️Managed and optimized 22+ microservices, including KYC, account verification, and credit underwriting, increasing user conversion rate by 15%. ▪️Implemented a system for daily refreshes of 500K users and 1M+ accounts, achieving 99.99% uptime and providing collection systems with latest user data, boosting collection rates by 15-20% and positively impacting company revenue. ▪️Developed a cost-saving automated flow that delinked stale users from aggregators and credit bureaus, reducing operational costs by approximately $33,000/month.

SDE Intern at Bright Money, Feb 2023 - Jul 2023 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ▪️Contributed to the Financial Data Aggregation Team, developing features for credit report pulling, account linking, and integrating with external financial aggregators ▪️Built alerts for monitoring dashboards, cutting API latency by 20%, and optimizing database reads by 50%. ▪️Collaborated with product teams to deliver critical features, aligning technical solutions with business needs, gaining in-depth knowledge of U.S. financial institutions, credit reporting, lending, and credit card operations.

Software Developer Intern at flippy, Mar 2022 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, ◾ Built a Serverless SIP feature using AWS SQS and Lambda which can handle 1000s of transactions. ◾ Reduced API response time from 500ms to 80ms speeding up the entire application ◾ Implemented the notification service for mobile apps capable of serving 1 million users

Backend Developer Intern at Disecto, Oct 2021 - Jan 2022 · 4 mos, Remote, Working with Django and Django Rest Framework. Assisting in the development, testing and debugging of REST APIs. 🌟 Tech Stack: Django, Django Rest Framework, Git, Gitlab, Postman

MLH Prep Program at MLH Fellowship, Oct 2021 - Oct 2021 · 1 mo, Built out a portfolio of personal projects, experimented with new technologies, and collaborated during a short hackathon sprint. Pod Website - https://prep-pod-4-1-0.netlify.app/ Prep Project - https://mlh-prep-4-1-0.netlify.app/ 🌟 Tech Stack: React, HTML, CSS, Js, Scss, Git, GitHub

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, I SQUARE IT

Prep Program, Computer Science, MLH Fellowship

Public links

iamakkkhil.github.io: https://iamakkkhil.github.io/