About Me

Introduction

I currently work as a Software Engineer at LinkedIn.

Build tooling to improve monitoring, observability and reliability of backend system.
Improve availability of latency sensitive backend systems.
Contantly improve the backend architecture by leveraging the monitoring data obtained by the tooling.

SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER, Nov 2020 - Present Sunnyvale, CA

Design, develop and maintain AWS backend infrastructure for Amazon Lab126’s security org.
Design automation test suites for Amazon’s multiple device families(Android, Linux, freeRTOS) and maintain them.
Migrated existing legacy tools to native AWS.
Assist peers with design reviews and guidance for new projects.
Improved Amazon Lab126’s security infrastructure annual uptime from ~98\% to 99.93\%.
Continuously improve the AWS backend reliability and scalability but leveraging new services and improving the architecture.
Reduced operational costs of the infrastructure by ~20\% over the past year.
Migrate monolithic applications to serverless and containerized architecture.

CLOUD ENGINEER, AWS LAMBDA Jan 2020 - Oct 2020 Dallas, TX

Perform analysis on enterprise customer issues with AWS Lambda and work with them to resolve the issues.
Involved in building security model, VPC, Elastic IP for databases on AWS Cloud platform.
Monitor and respond to potential breakdowns in 24/7/365 web services.
Experienced in Automating, Configuring and deploying instances on AWS, Azure environments and Data centers, also familiar with EC2, Cloud watch, Cloud Formation and managing security groups on AWS.
Write python scripts to manage AWS resources from API calls using BOTO SDK and also worked with AWS CLI.
In depth Knowledge of AWS cloud service like Compute, Network, Storage and Identity & access management.
Hands-on Experience in configuration of Network architecture on AWS with VPC, Subnets, Internet gateway, NAT, Route table.
Technologies used: AWS EC2, AWS Lambda, Bash scripting, AWS API Gateway, Networking, AWS CLI.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTERN June 2018 – August 2018 Fremont, CA

Worked on developing REST APIs for client data warehouse.
Implemented caching using EhCache which resulted in 65% reduction in API response time.
Performed unit testing on the code by writing JUnit test cases.
Performed performance testing using JMeter on the REST APIs.
Technologies used: Java, Eclipse, Maven, REST, Java SpringBoot, JUnit, JMeter

QA ANALYST INTERN June 2015 – December 2015 Pune, India

Performed manual data testing of data warehouse within the bank infrastructure.
Developed a test automation framework using HP QTP to automate testing of windows applications.
Designed a data driven test automation framework in Java and Selenium web driver to test newer web applications.
Combined use of these frameworks improved testing efficiency of the team by 40% over manual testing.
Technologies used: Java, IntelliJ Idea, Selenium Web-driver, HP QTP, JIRA, Test Automation

June 2019 Santa Clara, CA

December 2016 Pune, India

Email: akolte@icloud.com