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title: "Akshat Agrawal - Engineering Leader in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Akshat Agrawal, Global Engineering Leader | Platform Engineering | Distributed Systems | Marketplace & Commerce Platforms | AI/GenAI Engineering | Platform Architecture | Scaling Global Engineering Teams based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and codex."
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# Akshat Agrawal on Tal

## Headline

Global Engineering Leader \| Platform Engineering \| Distributed Systems \| Marketplace & Commerce Platforms \| AI/GenAI Engineering \| Platform Architecture \| Scaling Global Engineering Teams

## About

Engineering leader with 20\+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems, commerce platforms, marketplace ecosystems, and payment solutions across retail, e\-commerce, and financial domains\. Over the years, I have grown across both technical and engineering leadership tracks — from software engineering and architecture into leading large\-scale engineering organizations delivering high\-throughput, resilient, and cloud\-native platforms\. Currently leading engineering for marketplace platform capabilities focused on seller onboarding, catalog lifecycle management, inventory workflows, fulfilment orchestration, and operational systems supporting 50K\+ sellers and 1M\+ items daily\. My experience spans: Distributed systems & microservices architecture Event\-driven platforms using Kafka Marketplace & commerce platforms Real\-time payment systems Cloud\-native engineering AI/GenAI\-enabled platform solutions Engineering modernization & operational excellence Over the last few years, I have been actively driving AI adoption within engineering and commerce workflows, including GenAI\-powered seller experience improvements, AI\-assisted engineering productivity, and intelligent operational automation\. I enjoy solving large\-scale engineering problems involving scalability, resiliency, platform evolution, and organizational growth\. I remain closely involved in architecture reviews, system design, engineering strategy, and building high\-performing distributed teams across global organizations\. Worked across global teams spanning India, US, UK, Central Europe, and Chile while partnering closely with engineering, product, architecture, and business leadership teams\. Core areas of interest: Distributed Systems \| Platform Engineering \| Marketplace Platforms \| AI Engineering \| Cloud Architecture \| Payments \| Event\-Driven Systems \| Engineering Leadership \| Platform Modernization Always interested in conversations around large\-scale platform engineering, distributed systems, AI\-enabled engineering workflows, and commerce technology\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

gemini

github copilot

## Work experience

Engineering Leader at Walmart, Dec 2021 \- Present · 4 yrs 10 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Lead engineering for marketplace platforms powering seller onboarding, catalog systems and order lifecycle platforms\. Key Impact: • Lead global organization across US and India • Deliver platforms supporting millions of products and high\-volume transactions • Driving microservices and event\-driven architecture modernization • Leading vendor engineering teams and strategic delivery partnerships • Hiring and mentoring senior engineers, architects and engineering managers

Software Development Manager at Tesco Bengaluru, Nov 2020 \- Dec 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos, Led engineering for Tesco’s global subscription platform, enabling digital subscription services across multiple markets in the UK and Europe\. Responsible for delivering scalable platform capabilities supporting millions of customers and integrating with core retail and commerce systems\. Key Contributions: • Led distributed engineering teams responsible for design, development and delivery of subscription platform capabilities supporting large\-scale retail services • Delivered cloud\-native microservices architecture enabling scalability, resilience and faster feature delivery • Collaborated closely with product, architecture and business teams to translate customer and business requirements into scalable platform solutions • Drove engineering best practices including DevOps adoption, CI/CD automation and platform observability • Partnered with cross\-functional teams to integrate subscription capabilities with commerce, payments and customer platforms • Mentored engineers and technical leads while fostering a high\-ownership and high\-performance engineering culture Technologies: Microservices, Cloud Platforms, Distributed Systems, CI/CD, DevOps

Senior Software Development Manager at Veritas Technologies LLC, Jan 2019 \- Nov 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Led engineering teams delivering enterprise data governance and data management platforms, enabling organizations to manage, protect and derive insights from large\-scale enterprise data systems\. Responsible for driving engineering delivery, platform modernization and cross\-functional collaboration across globally distributed teams\. Key Contributions • Led engineering teams and collaborated with vendor delivery managers and account managers to manage a vendor organization of 30\+ engineers supporting platform development and delivery • Managed vendor onboarding, SOW preparation, and delivery governance to ensure high\-quality engineering execution • Delivered scalable enterprise data platform capabilities supporting data governance, compliance and enterprise analytics use cases • Partnered with product and architecture teams to drive platform enhancements and distributed system improvements • Mentored engineers and technical leads while strengthening engineering culture, collaboration and delivery excellence • Played a key role in stabilizing engineering teams during organizational transitions and improving team morale and retention Technologies Distributed Systems • Enterprise Data Platforms • Microservices • Cloud Platforms • DevOps Practices

Technical Solutions Architect at Netspend, Jun 2016 \- Apr 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos, Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area, Led architecture and engineering delivery for payment processing and prepaid card platforms, supporting high\-volume financial transaction systems\. • Designed and implemented scalable payment platform architecture supporting transaction processing and card program management • Led distributed engineering teams across onsite and offshore locations, driving delivery of platform capabilities • Partnered with product and business teams to define technical architecture and platform roadmap • Mentored engineers and technical leads while improving engineering practices and delivery quality Technologies: Distributed Systems • Payments Platforms • Enterprise Integration • Java

Manager Application Systems Development at TSYS, Nov 2015 \- Jan 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Led architecture and delivery of payment processing and digital wallet platforms supporting prepaid card programs and high\-volume financial transactions\. • Designed scalable payment and transaction processing systems • Led architecture initiatives across distributed payment platforms • Partnered with product and business teams to deliver secure financial services solutions

Software Development Lead at TSYS, Oct 2013 \- Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Delivered key components for payment processing and card management platforms used by global financial services clients\. • Built high\-performance transaction processing systems • Led design and development of core backend services • Mentored engineers and supported platform modernization initiatives

Senior Software Developer at TSYS, Feb 2011 \- Oct 2013 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Led development of core components for payment processing and prepaid card platforms, supporting high\-volume financial transactions\. • Designed and delivered scalable services for payment transaction processing and card lifecycle management systems • Acted as technical lead for key modules, mentoring engineers and guiding design and development decisions • Partnered with architects and cross\-functional teams to improve platform performance, reliability and integration with external financial systems

## Education

BE, Computer Science, University Institute of Technology, RGPV

ILead Program\- Leadership in Retail\( through Walmart\), Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

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