Akash Verma

I'm a backend-focused Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems in Java and Spring Boot. My work has spanned four companies and three domains — geospatial platforms at ESRI, enterprise SaaS at 3 Pillar Global, fintech and secure transaction processing at Nucleus Software, and end-to-end feature delivery at Hays Business Solutions.

The through-line across those roles has been depth in distributed systems and a bias toward measurable performance work. I've reduced backend memory footprint by ~30% through Java concurrency and memory tuning, improved health-check performance by 60% via parallel execution, cut SQL query execution times by 25–30%, improved search performance by ~16% through a full Solr 5 → 9 migration, and brought deployment cycles from hours to minutes by containerizing applications with Docker and orchestrating via Kubernetes. I've architected cloud-native migrations deployable across AWS and Azure, designed distributed locking mechanisms for concurrent systems, and led a POC integrating OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing across microservices.

Earlier in my career, I built real-time systems that mattered outside the datacenter — REST APIs on Android POS devices for banking transactions, UIDAI Aadhaar biometric authentication workflows, and WebSocket-based geo-tracking that took agent location updates from minutes to seconds for rural banking customers.

More recently, I've been working at the intersection of backend engineering and applied AI — building an agentic log monitoring and analysis system with LangChain and LangGraph that performs intelligent parsing, anomaly detection, and automated root-cause analysis across distributed services. It's the kind of problem I find most interesting right now: taking hard operational problems and making them tractable with agentic tooling.

Beyond my day job, I've published a Chrome extension for GitHub Markdown formatting (1,200+ impressions), contributed documentation to Apache Solr, and earned $200 in GCP credits under the Google Assistant Developer Community Program for an app I built. I hold a B.Tech in IT from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University.

I'm looking for backend or platform engineering roles at companies working on genuinely hard technical problems — distributed systems, developer tooling, observability, or applied AI. Open to remote opportunities.