Akhil Vardhuru

Software Engineer with 3+ years of experience building scalable, cloud-native microservices and distributed systems on AWS and Azure. Skilled in Java, REST APIs, Kubernetes, and production support with a focus on performance optimization and system reliability.

Engineered and optimized 15+ Java Spring Boot microservices for risk analytics and transaction scoring, boosting processing speed by 30%.

• Reduced API response time by 25% through database tuning and multithreaded processing to handle millions of transactions daily, ensuring low latency and high throughput.
• Enhanced production observability by integrating monitoring tools like Datadog, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch, driving proactive issue resolution.
• Automated cloud infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Jenkins, cutting deployment time by 50% and enabling weekly production pushes.
• Deployed containerized services on Kubernetes (AKS), ensuring scalability and 99.9% uptime for high-volume risk analytics systems.
• Executed production support (on-call rotation), resolving critical incidents (Abends) within SLA and maintaining 99% system availability.
• Mentored junior engineers, improving team delivery efficiency by 30% through knowledge-sharing on microservices and DevOps best practices.

Master of Science in Data Science