# Akash Kumar

> SDE-II at AWS GameTech

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/akashkumar

As an experienced Software Engineer working in the Software Architecture team at Siemens, I’ve worked on analyzing, reviewing and developing complex, safety-critical software.

## Work Experience
### Software Development Engineer @ AWS Game Tech
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Building Amazon GameLift Streams - https://aws.amazon.com/gamelift/streams/

### Research Professional @ Siemens
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area
- Performed an architecture review with a focus on scalability for a large scale healthcare process management software. As the project manager, interviewed architects, developers and testers to understand and document the existing software architecture and ran scalability tests to confirm that the system would scale to 10x higher data volumes

- Improved the performance (cycle time) of a battery management software by over 90% by proposing and implementing a new communication paradigm (in C++) between components

- Analyzed the source code (C++) for a large, multi-component Train Control product, rebuilding the architecture documentation from scratch and providing feedback on potential issues and bottlenecks

- Developed a custom test framework from scratch in Python for a Railway Routing system that greatly reduced the number of defects found in builds delivered to the customer

- Architected and developed a pure C++ library that provided clean interfaces to control robotic manipulators and grippers

- Developed a Spoken Dialog System library (Java/Python) for Siemens' use cases that integrated existing NLP technologies with a custom Dialog Manager. The initial prototype was demonstrated at Hannover Messe 2018.

### Graduate Research Intern @ Siemens
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
- Primary back-end developer for a Natural Language User Interface
- Implemented Intent Recognition and Named Entity Recognition in Java and integrated TTS systems and Speech Recognition systems to create a Spoken Dialog System
- Wrote Unit, Integration and End-to-End tests

### Analyst (Development) @ Deloitte
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016
- Developed and enhanced multiple applications for the firm’s Finance division
- Usually was the sole developer on the project, setting and managing expectations with clients 
- Led a team of 8 people that handled the on-boarding of new hires into the company

### Intern - Android Developer @ Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Bangalore
- Independently developed a speech-enabled Android application for Honeywell's Home Automation platform
- Improved speech recognition accuracy by over 40% using Fuzzy Matching


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science
University at Buffalo

### Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Science And Engineering
Manipal Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akashpkumar

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Last updated: 2026-04-10