---
title: "Akhil Bhalerao - Software Development Engineer II in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Akhil Bhalerao, Backend Engineer | Distributed Systems · AI/LLM | Python · Django · FastAPI | SDE-II @6sense | MLH Fellow ’21 based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes antigravity, claude code, and cursor. Explore public work links including iamakkkhil.github.io."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/akhil-bhalerao/share-image"
---

# Akhil Bhalerao on Tal

## Headline

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/

[View the original profile](https://tal.club/meet/akhil-bhalerao)

```json
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/akhil-bhalerao#person",
      "name": "Akhil Bhalerao",
      "url": "https://tal.club/meet/akhil-bhalerao",
      "image": "https://tal.club/meet/akhil-bhalerao/profile-photo.jpg",
      "description": "Meet Akhil Bhalerao, Backend Engineer | Distributed Systems · AI/LLM | Python · Django · FastAPI | SDE-II @6sense | MLH Fellow ’21 based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes antigravity, claude code, and cursor. Explore public work links including iamakkkhil.github.io.",
      "jobTitle": "Software Development Engineer II",
      "worksFor": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "6sense"
      },
      "hasOccupation": {
        "@type": "Occupation",
        "name": "Software Development Engineer II"
      },
      "homeLocation": {
        "@type": "Place",
        "name": "Bengaluru"
      },
      "alumniOf": [
        {
          "@type": "EducationalOrganization",
          "name": "I SQUARE IT"
        },
        {
          "@type": "EducationalOrganization",
          "name": "MLH Fellowship"
        }
      ],
      "knowsAbout": [
        "antigravity",
        "claude code",
        "cursor",
        "geminicli",
        "openai"
      ],
      "sameAs": [
        "https://iamakkkhil.github.io/"
      ],
      "mainEntityOfPage": {
        "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/akhil-bhalerao#webpage"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "ProfilePage",
      "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/akhil-bhalerao#webpage",
      "url": "https://tal.club/meet/akhil-bhalerao",
      "name": "Akhil Bhalerao on Tal",
      "description": "Meet Akhil Bhalerao, Backend Engineer | Distributed Systems · AI/LLM | Python · Django · FastAPI | SDE-II @6sense | MLH Fellow ’21 based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes antigravity, claude code, and cursor. Explore public work links including iamakkkhil.github.io.",
      "dateModified": "2026-09-10T09:27:19.896Z",
      "isPartOf": {
        "@id": "https://tal.club/#website"
      },
      "mainEntity": {
        "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/akhil-bhalerao#person"
      },
      "primaryImageOfPage": {
        "@type": "ImageObject",
        "url": "https://tal.club/meet/akhil-bhalerao/profile-photo.jpg",
        "contentUrl": "https://tal.club/meet/akhil-bhalerao/profile-photo.jpg",
        "caption": "Akhil Bhalerao profile photo on Tal"
      },
      "inLanguage": "en-IN"
    }
  ]
}
```