Yash Edakhe

Senior Backend Engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable, high-performance systems using NodeJS and TypeScript. Proven expertise in designing microservices architectures, database optimization (ScyllaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis), and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP). Proficient in DevOps practices (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm Charts) and observability stacks. Actively applying AI to the engineering workflow practices, building, testing and shipping production code with Claude Code.

Senior Software Engineer at Veracode-Accion Labs (2024-05 – 2026-08)

Application Security & Pipeline Automation

• Developed a backend service in NodeJS with TypeScript to perform proprietary security scans on customer codebases.
• Integrated Veracode with GitHub, Azure DevOps and GitLab to automate repository scanning workflows for customers.
• Diagnosed an Azure DevOps API rate limiting (HTTP Error 429) and data integrity failures in a bulk webhook and pipeline installation of Veracode, in 300+ projects across multiple organizations.
• Implemented a two-tier promise-limit concurrency model to throttle API requests that were spiking to 1500+ simultaneous calls, reducing the data corruption rate to 1-2% and database write operations by 50%.
• Designed and deployed self-service PostgreSQL diagnostic pod on EKS using Helm charts with automated credential retrieval and documented a runbook, reducing production database troubleshooting time across US and EU region for Azure DevOps Cluster.

SDE-II at Zee Entertainment Enterprise (2022-07 – 2024-03)

• AWS to GCP Migration | Cloud Migration: Revamped the existing middleware system for Google Cloud Platform compatibility, working closely with the infrastructure team, database administrators and software architects to gather the migration requirements.
• AWS to GCP Migration | Cloud Migration: Implemented GCP services including Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Storage (GCS) as part of cloud modernization initiatives.
• AWS to GCP Migration | Cloud Migration: Leveraged Splunk, Argo Workflows, Grafana, and New Relic for logging, monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance analysis.
• Campaign-Service | Middleware Service: Delivered the middleware service powering a subscription win-back program for lapsed users, generating around ₹10 Crore in revenue.
• Campaign-Service | Middleware Service: Designed and built high-throughput RESTful APIs in NodeJS with FastifyJS, sustaining 5000 TPS in performance testing with GET response times of ~10 ms.
• Campaign-Service | Middleware Service: Optimized service code and cloud resource usage to keep infrastructure costs low while maintaining data integrity across the system.
• International League T20 | Middleware Service: Built the user registration API for cricket match notifications in NodeJS and FastifyJS, using MongoDB for persistent storage of registration data.
• International League T20 | Middleware Service: Added a Redis caching layer to the registration flow to improve API performance.
• International League T20 | Middleware Service: Developed Redis-backed API endpoints for managing match assets, secured with JWT authentication to restrict access to in-house users.
• CLM Portal | Independent Service: Created a standalone system for notifying users about upcoming episodes and movie releases on the platform.
• CLM Portal | Independent Service: Enabled users to view the list of successful uploads in a paginated format for easier management.
• CLM Portal | Independent Service: Developed the Backend in NodeJS with ExpressJS to run cron jobs on schedule.
• CLM Portal | Independent Service: Leveraged CleverTap API to effectively deliver personalized push notifications to eligible users.

SDE-I at Byju's Learning Portal | InfoBeans Technologies (2021-11 – 2022-06)

• Engineered a dynamic question logic system enabling instructors to create conditional OR-based question sequences.
• Use of Functional and Asynchronous programming in JavaScript for linear flow of the application.
• Designed and implemented Redis caching layer, fixing the response time of the web page of student's records, achieving latency improvements (25 seconds to 300ms) and eliminating timeout errors during peak concurrent usage.

Application Developer at One Internet Content | Fujitsu Consulting India (2017-11 – 2021-10)

Content Management Service

• As a Content Management Service (SDL TRIDION) developer, primary focus was to maintain the visual looks and feels of the website, by having a standard template design provided by webmasters.
• Extensive use of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript for the appearance of the website and smooth UX experience.
• Communicating with clients in Japanese and exchanging ideas for developing a web page, building and maintaining trust through delivering the end results.
• Earned Certification Japanese Language Level 4 (NAT N4).

B.E in Information Technology – Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University (2014 – 2017)