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Monish Akram

Kotak811 | Ex-CaptainFresh | Ex-Dunzo | NIT Allahbad

Bengaluru

6+ years of work experience

Kotak811
Oct 20242 yrs 1 moPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Adalat AI
May 20245 mosSep 2024

Remote

• As a founding engineer, led the end-to-end development of the core platform, now actively used by 10%+ of judges and stenographers across Indian High Courts and Subordinate Courts on a daily basis. • Built collaborative text editing and real-time audio formatting features, with seamless cloud-based storage and retrieval.
Captain Fresh
Oct 20212 yrs 5 mosFeb 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Managed backend architecture for the Fishgram app, a B2B platform connecting seafood industry suppliers and buyers. • Designed and implemented microservices including account management, bidding engine, and product catalog, ensuring scalability and modularity. • Improved code quality across the team by advocating for clean architecture, design patterns, and unit testing. • Worked closely with cross-functional teams (product, QA, ops) to ensure on-time delivery and system reliability.
Springboard
Jan 202110 mosOct 2021

India

- Collaborated with Infra team to enhance system security through targeted improvements. - Optimized system performance and accuracy by identifying and resolving bugs. - Conducted code reviews and provided mentorship to junior developers. - Integrated cloud services to streamline deployment processes.
Dunzo
Aug 20191 yr 6 mosJan 2021

Bangalore

• Collaborated with the allocation team to design and develop microservices for partner operations, including task assignment and payout management workflows. • Played a key role in improving the StockOut Service, introducing dynamic AB-Config, which led to a 30% increase in order volume during demand spikes. • Optimized Elasticsearch queries, reducing average response latency by 70%, significantly improving system performance. • Automated incentive generation for delivery partners during rainy conditions, resulting in a 20% reduction in operational overhead.
GitHub
@MonishAkram
LeetCode
@monishakram
YouTubeyoutube.com/@zimablue

Monish’s AI Stack

anthropic apis
anthropic apis
claude code
claude code
codex
codex
gemini
gemini

Education

Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology

Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Computer Science

Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology

20163 yrs2019
Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication, Bhopal

Bachelor of Computer Application - BCA

Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication, Bhopal

20123 yrs2015

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Headline

Kotak811 | Ex-CaptainFresh | Ex-Dunzo | NIT Allahbad

About

Backend engineer with 7 years of experience building and scaling distributed, event-driven systems in Go and Java, across fintech, B2B and B2C. Currently at Kotak811, where I work on high-throughput transaction processing and financial data integrations. Before that, I built core platforms at early-stage startups, from founding-engineer work to real-time systems at scale. Skilled in Go, Java, Python, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes and cloud infra (AWS, GCP, Azure).

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

codex

gemini

Work experience

Backend Engineer at Kotak811, Oct 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Founding Engineer (Contract) at Adalat AI, May 2024 - Sep 2024 · 5 mos, Remote, • As a founding engineer, led the end-to-end development of the core platform, now actively used by 10%+ of judges and stenographers across Indian High Courts and Subordinate Courts on a daily basis. • Built collaborative text editing and real-time audio formatting features, with seamless cloud-based storage and retrieval.

Software Engineer II at Captain Fresh, Oct 2021 - Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Managed backend architecture for the Fishgram app, a B2B platform connecting seafood industry suppliers and buyers. • Designed and implemented microservices including account management, bidding engine, and product catalog, ensuring scalability and modularity. • Improved code quality across the team by advocating for clean architecture, design patterns, and unit testing. • Worked closely with cross-functional teams (product, QA, ops) to ensure on-time delivery and system reliability.

Software Engineer II at Springboard, Jan 2021 - Oct 2021 · 10 mos, India, - Collaborated with Infra team to enhance system security through targeted improvements. - Optimized system performance and accuracy by identifying and resolving bugs. - Conducted code reviews and provided mentorship to junior developers. - Integrated cloud services to streamline deployment processes.

Software Engineer at Dunzo, Aug 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bangalore, • Collaborated with the allocation team to design and develop microservices for partner operations, including task assignment and payout management workflows. • Played a key role in improving the StockOut Service, introducing dynamic AB-Config, which led to a 30% increase in order volume during demand spikes. • Optimized Elasticsearch queries, reducing average response latency by 70%, significantly improving system performance. • Automated incentive generation for delivery partners during rainy conditions, resulting in a 20% reduction in operational overhead.

Education

Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Computer Science, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Computer Application - BCA, Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication, Bhopal

Public links

github: https://github.com/MonishAkram

leetcode: https://leetcode.com/monishakram

youtube.com: https://youtube.com/@zimablue