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title: "Akshit Sharma - Software Engineering Product Lead in India | Tal"
description: "Meet Akshit Sharma, Engineering Lead | Ex - Browserstack | UHG/Optum | NIT Allahabad based in India. AI stack includes codex, cursor, and opencode."
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# Akshit Sharma on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Lead \| Ex \- Browserstack \| UHG/Optum \| NIT Allahabad

## About

Certified FSE; Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate, Azure Data Engineer Associate, Azure AI Engineer Associate, Azure Data Scientist Associate, Azure Fundamentals, Azure Data Fundamentals, Azure AI Fundamentals; Web Development \(Spring, SpringBoot, Angular, \.NET, PHP, Bootstrap, ReactJS, REST\); Jenkins \(CI \| CD\); Microservices, Openshift, Drools, JBPM; Splunk Query, Dashboards, Alerts and Setup; Android App Development; GraphQL, Firebase; JMeter, JUnit, Spock; Image Processing, Computer Vision on Mobile & Web Platform\. Leadership and Management Qualities\. Believe in implementing rather than just learning\.

## Location

India

## AI stack

codex

cursor

opencode

## Work experience

Software Engineering Product Lead at BrowserStack, Jul 2024 \- Jun 2026 · 2 yrs, Remote, Lead cross\-functional engineering teams driving execution across unified API integrations, AI\-driven analytics, and platform\-wide cross\-selling revenue initiatives\. \- AI\-Driven SDLC & Platform Automation: Standardized AI\-assisted workflows across the SDLC to drive a 61% increase in team productivity\. Integrated AI\-driven OpenAPI spec validation and security guardrails into CI/CD pipelines, preventing 90% of schema issues and cutting security review loads by 55%\. Developed a specialized Ops Assistant for autonomous incident management\. \- Central Integrations Platform: Architected a unified meta\-API abstraction platform aggregating multiple third\-party SDLC tools into a single interface\. Successfully scaled integrations from 6 to 37, grew internal adoption from 0% to 67%, and reduced downstream integration complexity and effort by over 60%\. \- Enterprise Search & Revenue Enablers: Architected an enterprise\-wide Global Search system on ClickHouse with full\-text capabilities and end\-to\-end data ingestion pipelines, successfully unblocking $28\.2M ARR worth of enterprise customers\. Led the Crossflows initiative to auto\-convert manual Live sessions into automated tests, driving a 16% revenue increase\. \- Production AI Agents: Embedded production\-grade AI agents within Quality Engineering Insights \(QEI\) built with strict Pydantic\-validated structured output, version\-controlled prompts, per\-user telemetry, and per\-call cost tracking\. \- Operational Excellence: Built a two\-stage NLP Smart Filters Agent to map free text into nested UI expressions \(reducing tokens via context compression\) and an Insights Agent for cross\-metric time\-series analysis\. Reduced alert noise by 50% and boosted MTTR by 75% \(cutting P1 resolution times from 29 to 7 minutes\)\.

Software Engineering Tech Lead at Optum, Oct 2022 \- Jul 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, \- Spearheaded diverse teams in architecting project solutions utilizing the micro\-frontend architecture, leveraging technologies such as Angular Storybook Component Libraries, React, Hasura GraphQL and Nestjs middleware among other tools \- Streamlined project delivery by integrating Camunda BPMs and DMNs with Apache Kafka and Eventhubs for real\-time event processing \- Developed and deployed recommendation programs for users, powered by Redis, which catapulted our mobile application to the leading position in the global healthcare sector on both the AppStore and PlayStore \- Championed the adoption of DevSecOps practices, incorporating CodeQL, Dependabot alerts, SonarQube, Microsoft Defender for container registry scans, Twistlock scans, penetration testing, and dynamic application security testing \(DAST\) \- Modernized infrastructure by migrating from on\-premise Jenkins to GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, reducing cloud costs through FinOps practices via Prometheus/Grafana, and enabling advanced analytics with EventHub and Snowflake to drive vendor performance improvements

Senior Software Engineer at Optum, Feb 2021 \- Oct 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos, \- Contributed as a key member of the performance engineering team, leveraging Dynatrace APM and Grafana/Prometheus to identify and resolve critical bottlenecks — improving search response times by up to 96% through concurrent processing, algorithmic refactoring\. \- Pioneered the adoption of Spring Cloud for configuration management across projects, facilitating multi\-tenancy and customizable solutions, which trimmed the onboarding process by three months \- Successfully integrated Splunk into a monolithic Spring application, in conjunction with microservices architecture utilizing Spring Cloud Sleuth and Spring AOP which streamlined monitoring and facilitated the generation of reports and alerts for anomalous activities

Software Development Engineer I at Optum, May 2020 \- Feb 2021 · 10 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, \- Built a Radiation Oncology platform integrating a novel medical technology Drools Rule Engine JAVA Groovy Spring Boot OpenShift \- Developed a drug wastage reduction solution in accordance to W\.H\.O\. using dosage rounding, cutting costs and medical waste \- Created a Rewards Program for healthcare providers with drug recommendations and interactive data visualizations

Campus Ambassador at InterviewBit, Jul 2018 \- Aug 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, Best Campus Ambassador for 2018\-19

Student at Final Year Student at MNNIT Allahabad, Jul 2018 \- Jun 2019 · 1 yr, Greater Allahabad Area

Graduate at Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology, Jul 2015 \- Jun 2019 · 4 yrs

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Information Technology, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Prayagraj

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