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Akhil Varyani

Engineering @ Zeta | Founded @ Scoutflo | Distributed Systems | Platform Engineering | Site Reliability Engineering | DevOps

Bengaluru

6+ years of work experience

Zeta
Aug 20233 yrs 1 moPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Site Reliability Engineer responsible for reliability, observability, and production operations of large-scale banking and payments infrastructure. - Operate Kubernetes-based fintech infrastructure spanning 12 AWS EKS clusters, 200+ worker nodes and 5000+ production pods, supporting mission-critical banking workloads serving 28M+ active cardholders. - Lead investigation and resolution of Sev-1 and Sev-2 incidents impacting payment processing and customer-facing systems. - Drive reliability improvements through proactive monitoring, observability and automation initiatives. - Design and maintain monitoring and alerting solutions using Prometheus, Grafana and OpenSearch. - Partner with platform, product and engineering teams to improve service reliability and operational maturity. - Perform capacity planning, infrastructure optimization and cost reduction initiatives across production environments. - Contribute to infrastructure rollouts across global regions including India, US and EU. - Support mission-critical banking and payment systems processing ~5 million financial transactions daily across the world. Key Projects & Impact: - Contributed to design and deployment of Kubernetes infrastructure powering HDFC Bank's PayZapp and Pixel platforms, supporting ~2M daily transactions across card, wallet and UPI workloads. - Led redesign of Zeta's centralized alerting architecture spanning thousands of microservices and hundreds of clusters, reducing alert rule footprint from 2500+ rules to 25 while improving maintainability and lowering Prometheus infrastructure costs. - Led production readiness initiatives across multiple banking and payment workloads, including load testing, performance tuning, scalability reviews and reliability improvements across India, US and EU sites. - Led incident response and RCA efforts for critical payment infrastructure, driving identification and remediation of recurring reliability issues across all major production systems.
Zeta
Oct 202210 mosJul 2023

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Scoutflo
Jan 20222 yrs 3 mosMar 2024

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

- Built a platform focused on making Kubernetes self-service for developers. - Led product vision, architecture and engineering execution. - Worked across customer discovery, product management and technology strategy. - Designed platform workflows aimed at improving developer productivity and infrastructure adoption. - Led Scoutflo to a Y-Combinator second round, and an initial pre-seed funding by 100xVC and several other angel investors.
Zeta
May 20211 yr 5 mosSep 2022

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Quantiphi
Aug 20209 mosApr 2021

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

- Developed cloud-native solutions leveraging Kubernetes, GCP and DialogFlow. - Built conversational AI solutions for large educational institutions in the US. - Worked on platform engineering and cloud infrastructure initiatives.
The Blockchain School
May 20203 mosJul 2020

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

-Worked with the core Technology and Product Teams on building the foundation, vision and strategy behind QuickBox, a TBS product. -QuickBox provides real world, hands on and world class micro-experiences to budding Blockchain Developers, helping them build their portfolio and connect with top Blockchain startups and companies, looking to hire world class Blockchain talent. -Was consulting with TBS in an advisory role for the core product/technology teams working on building QuickBox, a TBS product.
Adalin Labs
Mar 20201 yr 10 mosDec 2021

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Led several freelancing web and mobile based technology projects across India, Europe and US as part of Adalin Labs, mainly for bootstrapping Scoutflo.

Akhil’s AI Stack

antigravity
antigravity
codex
codex

Education

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering

University of Mumbai

20164 yrs2020

HSC

Pace Junior Science College Thane

20142 yrs2016

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Headline

Engineering @ Zeta | Founded @ Scoutflo | Distributed Systems | Platform Engineering | Site Reliability Engineering | DevOps

About

Senior Software Engineer with experience operating large-scale fintech infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes. Currently focused on site reliability engineering, distributed systems, platform operations, observability, and managing production systems supporting millions of financial transactions and tens of millions of cardholders at Zeta. Previously founded Scoutflo, a Kubernetes-based developer platform (IDP) that reached YC Round 2 and raised pre-seed funding from 100xVC. I enjoy solving complex infrastructure, scalability, and reliability challenges, and I'm particularly interested in cloud platforms, distributed systems, developer platforms, the early-stage tech startup ecosystem, and emerging AI infrastructure.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

codex

Work experience

Software Engineer - II (SRE) at Zeta, Aug 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Site Reliability Engineer responsible for reliability, observability, and production operations of large-scale banking and payments infrastructure. - Operate Kubernetes-based fintech infrastructure spanning 12 AWS EKS clusters, 200+ worker nodes and 5000+ production pods, supporting mission-critical banking workloads serving 28M+ active cardholders. - Lead investigation and resolution of Sev-1 and Sev-2 incidents impacting payment processing and customer-facing systems. - Drive reliability improvements through proactive monitoring, observability and automation initiatives. - Design and maintain monitoring and alerting solutions using Prometheus, Grafana and OpenSearch. - Partner with platform, product and engineering teams to improve service reliability and operational maturity. - Perform capacity planning, infrastructure optimization and cost reduction initiatives across production environments. - Contribute to infrastructure rollouts across global regions including India, US and EU. - Support mission-critical banking and payment systems processing ~5 million financial transactions daily across the world. Key Projects & Impact: - Contributed to design and deployment of Kubernetes infrastructure powering HDFC Bank's PayZapp and Pixel platforms, supporting ~2M daily transactions across card, wallet and UPI workloads. - Led redesign of Zeta's centralized alerting architecture spanning thousands of microservices and hundreds of clusters, reducing alert rule footprint from 2500+ rules to 25 while improving maintainability and lowering Prometheus infrastructure costs. - Led production readiness initiatives across multiple banking and payment workloads, including load testing, performance tuning, scalability reviews and reliability improvements across India, US and EU sites. - Led incident response and RCA efforts for critical payment infrastructure, driving identification and remediation of recurring reliability issues across all major production systems.

DevOps Engineer - II at Zeta, Oct 2022 - Jul 2023 · 10 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Co-Founder & CTO at Scoutflo, Jan 2022 - Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, - Built a platform focused on making Kubernetes self-service for developers. - Led product vision, architecture and engineering execution. - Worked across customer discovery, product management and technology strategy. - Designed platform workflows aimed at improving developer productivity and infrastructure adoption. - Led Scoutflo to a Y-Combinator second round, and an initial pre-seed funding by 100xVC and several other angel investors.

DevOps Engineer - I at Zeta, May 2021 - Sep 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Platform Engineer at Quantiphi, Aug 2020 - Apr 2021 · 9 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, - Developed cloud-native solutions leveraging Kubernetes, GCP and DialogFlow. - Built conversational AI solutions for large educational institutions in the US. - Worked on platform engineering and cloud infrastructure initiatives.

Product and Growth at The Blockchain School, May 2020 - Jul 2020 · 3 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, -Worked with the core Technology and Product Teams on building the foundation, vision and strategy behind QuickBox, a TBS product. -QuickBox provides real world, hands on and world class micro-experiences to budding Blockchain Developers, helping them build their portfolio and connect with top Blockchain startups and companies, looking to hire world class Blockchain talent. -Was consulting with TBS in an advisory role for the core product/technology teams working on building QuickBox, a TBS product.

Co-Founder at Adalin Labs, Mar 2020 - Dec 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Led several freelancing web and mobile based technology projects across India, Europe and US as part of Adalin Labs, mainly for bootstrapping Scoutflo.

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering, University of Mumbai

HSC, Pace Junior Science College Thane