About

Akash Agarwal is a highly skilled technology consultant with over 9.5 years of industry experience. He has worked with large-scale distributed systems, distributed database as a service, SaaS, and streaming platforms like OTT. As a full-stack engineer, he has a thorough understanding of the entire ecosystem of delivering an application from scratch, top to bottom, building a team, automating stuff, testing, deployments, and connecting all dots in a highly scalable distributed manner. He has exposure to domains like video streaming OTT platforms, fintech, oil and gas, renewable energy and maritime, BFSI, etc. Akash has contributed to various technological fronts and helped India's largest OTT platform, Disney+ Hotstar, to rebuild their platform from scratch, leading a team of engineers, delivering at quality and scale. He also did small-time performance consulting for NASDAQ, aiming to improve their website's performance score at par with their competitors. He has helped build a distributed database as a service product (DDaaS) for processing and storing real-time streams of data and exposing multiple APIs for clients to consume. Currently, Akash works as an Engineering Specialist at Mijndomein.nl, where he is acting as a technology leader, helping them mature their architecture and best practices by being a core contributor in the engineering division, wearing multiple hats. His major focus is on maturing the backend services and infrastructure so as to tackle the ever-growing traffic, scale, and robustness. He is also mentoring colleagues about their product, guiding them and communicating the necessary information in an appropriate manner. Akash has a Bachelor's degree in Technology from UPTU and has relevant experience of 10.53 years. He is an avid traveler, a good listener, and has entrepreneurial aspirations as an investor. He has contributed a few blogs on distributed computing over Medium. His tech stack includes Javascript, NodeJS, Web, Microservices, AWS, Search, Azure, Frontend, Backend, Software Engineer, Infra, Kubernetes, Senior Software Engineer, MSSQL, Redux, UI, Blockchain, Test, NoSQL, DevOps, Postgres.