Akshay Pm
@akshaypm
I architect secure IoT & edge platforms, scaling AWS fleets with observability.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
I’m an IoT & Edge Platform Engineer with 10+ years designing and scaling cloud-native IoT platforms in regulated healthcare and enterprise environments. I focus on device lifecycle management, edge-to-cloud integration, fleet operations, and container security on AWS and Kubernetes.
In my current role as Staff Software Engineer — IoT Platform at GE Healthcare, I’ve architected a RAG-based observability assistant indexing OpenTelemetry traces, Grafana logs, and operational runbooks—helping engineers diagnose production incidents through natural language. I also reduced edge gateway provisioning latency from 30s to under 4s by enforcing least-privilege IAM and mTLS with X.509 device authentication over MQTT on K3s/Kubernetes.
I’m deeply hands-on with reliability and security at scale: I’ve hardened 10–15 container images using multi-stage Dockerfiles with distroless finals, enforced CI/CD scan gates with Twistlock, and blocked vulnerable/unsigned images using cosign signature verification and Kyverno admission policies. I’ve also led 10 engineers end-to-end across backend and edge layers, driving design reviews and delivery for gateway onboarding, container security, and edge-to-cloud integration features.
Previously, as Senior Software Engineer — IoT & Edge (Remote) at JLL Technologies, I operated a production Smart Building IoT platform managing 500+ edge gateways and 100+ sensors per site publishing MQTT telemetry at 200+ messages/sec. I delivered RAG and agent-based LLM workflows for JLL GPT, optimized event/infra delivery with Terraform and automation, and improved incident detection speed by 30% through centralized observability.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Staff Software Engineer
GE Healthcare
Sep 2025 - Present (9 months)
Architecting a RAG-based observability assistant indexing OpenTelemetry traces, Grafana logs, and operational runbooks to enable natural-language incident diagnosis in regulated healthcare. Optimized edge gateway provisioning latency from 30s to under 4s and reduced manual provisioning steps from 10–12 to 1 while hardening IoT edge container security and leading 10 engineers across backend and edg
Senior Software Engineer
JLL Technologies
Jul 2023 - Sep 2025 (2 years 2 months)
Built backend and IoT platform components across US/EU time zones using async workflows, including RAG and agent-based LLM workflows for natural-language querying of internal documents and business metrics. Operated a production smart building IoT platform managing 500+ edge gateways with 100+ sensors per site (200+ messages/sec across 9–10 topics), reducing AWS infrastructure deployment time by 4
Chief Engineer
Samsung R&D Institute India
Jan 2023 - Jul 2023 (6 months)
Drove a 40% improvement in SmartThings event processing throughput by redesigning AWS architecture and optimizing Kinesis-based event pipelines to support higher sustained load across millions of connected devices.
Senior Consultant
Deloitte USI Consulting
Apr 2019 - Dec 2022 (3 years 8 months)
Owned end-to-end backend architecture and implementation for McDonald’s drive-thru IoT platform across 1,000+ US locations using AWS IoT Greengrass and Lambda, reducing data latency by 25%. Served as end-to-end technical owner for a serverless AWS Lambda + PostgreSQL stack (SFHC), managing security reviews and 3–4 client stakeholders through delivery.
IoT Developer
Smarten Spaces
Dec 2017 - Apr 2019 (1 year 4 months)
Created a beacon-based indoor navigation system achieving 90% location accuracy using BLE triangulation algorithms, Python REST APIs, and OpenStreetMap integration for spatial rendering.
Software Engineer
Incedo Inc.
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017 (8 months)
Developed backend components for Cisco EFF Cloud, a no-code IoT platform, delivering IoT integration capabilities for an Oil & Gas industry client.
Project Assistant
Networks Lab, IISc
Jun 2015 - Dec 2016 (1 year 6 months)
Designed IoT networking solutions using 6LoWPAN and RPL routing and wrote Contiki OS firmware for campus-scale wireless sensor network deployments. Published peer-reviewed research in the IEEE IoT Journal and co-authored an IETF RFC on IPv6 6LoWPAN deterministic networks.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
SBMSIT, VTU Belgaum
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Communication
2008 - 2012
Grade: First Class
B.E. in Electronics & Communication from SBMSIT (VTU, Belgaum), completed in 2012 with a First Class.
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