# Akash Kashyap

> Staff Software Engineer at Twilio

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/akashkashyap

I graduated with a Master's in Software Engineering, with a specialization in Enterprise Distributed Systems and Cloud Technologies from San Jose State University.

Always open to the right opportunity.

I have ~7 years of Software development experience and have worked at Intel Corporation, Dell, SecureSystems in the past where I developed web-based solutions working on different technologies based on client requirements. I was Awarded Dell Champion Award for developing utility tools for process improvement and reducing overall TAT.

-Driven by curiosity and love for technology
-Adept at writing well-structured, reusable, and easily maintainable code
-Passion for providing quality solutions.

Technical Skills:

►Programming Languages: Go, Python, Java

►Frameworks: Django, Flask, Spring MVC

►Messaging: Rabbit MQ, Apache Pulsar

►Scripting: UNIX (shell scripting), VBScript

►Database: MongoDB, REDIS, MySQL, Postgres, PGbouncer

►Test Management Tools: JIRA

►Performance  & Webservices Testing Tools: JMeter, Postman, SOAP UI, Fiddler.

►DevOps: Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, AWS, Openshift, Jenkins, Docker, Git

►Observability: Prometheus (Alerts, metrics), Graphana (Monitoring), Jaeger (Tracing), Splunk (Logging)

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Twilio
Jan 2022 – Present | United States

### Software Engineer III @ Splunk
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Worked on backend implementation of threat intelligence and event-sequencing frameworks on Splunk Enterprise Security.
- Developing highly scalable, resilient microservices for Splunk Mission Control Platform
- Designed & Implemented and completely own 2 microservices which are shared across microservices in Splunk Mission Control.
- Setup Observability (Metrics, Alerts, Tracing, and Logs) for these 2 services to achieve operational maturity and ensure SLIs and SLOs.
- Led integration efforts with Message Bus for all async use-cases and resiliency. 
- Authored python modules to abstract out and handle authZ, authN and token expirations with message broker, and handle authN, and support multi-cache construct with caching infrastructure for services powering Splunk Mission Control.
- Setup Caching infrastructure and integrated with all microservices powering mission control for various use-cases along with observability, metrics, alerts.
- Setup Gitlab CICD pipeline for build, test and deploy of microservices to kubernetes clusters.
- Configured test pipeline to perform static-analysis, unit testing, Integration testing, achieved code-coverage of 80%, lint-checking.

### Engineering Intern @ Trifacta
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Santa clara
-Gathered user requirements, designed, developed code and tested as per functional specification.
- Validated production software release
-Optimized existing API response time from 9 s to 1.73 s to fetch critical device parameters. 
-Implementation of API in middleware for user-facing elements like Dashboard and Widgets.
-Improved performance by scaling database horizontally for fault tolerance and high availability 
-Configured database for secure accessibility
-Developed DataParser to normalize data & integrate into HDFS.
-Tweaked Logparser to extract information for traceability.

### Student Assistant - Technology Services @ San Jose State University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Jose

### Instructional Student Assistant @ San Jose State University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Jose

### Systems Engineer @ Dell, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Hi-Tech City, India
-Accomplished Application Virtualization for several enterprise level applications using App V 5.0.
-Development of  Web Apps and Implementation of RESTful Services for resource Monitoring, tracking  & Enterprise skill management.
-Awarded Dell Champion Award for developing various automation tools and Script generators to 
  Reduce turnaround time.
-Group policies and batch scripting for Enterprise deployments.
-Published various articles in Dell Knowledge Base.

### Mobile Application Developer @ A&A Softlabs
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Hyderabad Area, India
-Developed and published Windows Universal Apps in Windows Store.
-Separation of concerns using MVVM  architecture
-Test-driven development with agile practices.
-Implementation of REST Web Services.

### Software Developer Intern @ Secure Systems
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Hyderabad Area, India
Web User Interface design and search engine optimization.


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Software Engineering
San José State University

### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad

### High school
Oxford grammar school


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akash-kashyap-51552250

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Last updated: 2026-04-12