# Akil Krishnan

> Software Engineer

Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/akil

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Drizly
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
Following the acquisition of Drizly, Uber is adding alcohol to Uber Eats, allowing customers to get alcohol by delivery.

Developed services to integrate Drizly retailers with the Uber Eats platforms using Go, Kafka, Terraform, and AWS. When users place orders on Uber Eats for a Drizly retailer, these services receive and process the order, and then synchronize order status with Uber Eats.

- Implemented orders services for Uber Eats orders integration.
- Supported and maintained orders services for Uber Eats integrations.
- Architected an AWS serverless API to handle driver location tracking at Uber scale.
- Implemented changes for FTC compliance regarding privacy and security.

### Software Engineer III @ NCR Corporation
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
De­vel­oped a full stack web app in Type­Script/Java­Script us­ing Re­ac­t.js, Apol­lo GraphQL,  Ex­press.js, Ter­raform, and Google Cloud Plat­form (GCP). 

- Developed a GraphQL layer to orchestrate frontend queries across NCR APIs.
- Ar­chi­tect­ed real-time stream­ing sta­tus up­dates us­ing Google Cloud Pub­Sub and Apol­lo GraphQL so that the UI could show up­grades hap­pen­ing in real-time at scale. 
- Migrated from Ku­ber­netes to managed prod­ucts in GCP for host­ing the UI and APIs.
- Implemented CI/CD us­ing Git­Hub Actions, Google Cloud SDK, and Terraform.
- Led a team of contractors and mentored in­terns.

### Software Engineer II @ NCR Corporation
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

### Software Developer @ AIG
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Farmington, Connecticut, United States
De­vel­oped mi­croser­vices and mi­crosites us­ing AWS, SNS, Cas­san­dra, Piv­otal Cloud Foundry, Java, Spring Boot, and Re­ac­t.js.

- De­signed and sub­mit­ted sev­er­al ap­proved web ser­vices to a week­ly or­ga­ni­za­tion wide de­sign round ta­ble.
- Developed document APIs and UIs that support all busi­ness units across AIG.
- De­vel­oped ex­ten­si­ble mes­sag­ing APIs and UIs (SMS, email, with sup­port for fu­ture  ad­di­tions) sup­port­ing all busi­ness units across AIG.
- Debugged services as a part of site reliability tasks for two months.

### Associate Software Engineer @ Alert Logic
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Houston, Texas Area
Developed micro-services for Alert Logic's Cloud Insight and Cloud Defender security products.

My role was to participate as a part of a global agile software development team by developing and monitoring web services in our auto-scaling, cloud-native SaaS backend written in Erlang for AWS marketplace customers.

Responsibilities included, but were not limited to:

 - Implement features in web services written in Erlang
 - Implement server operations scripts in Python
 - Improve test code coverage
 - Document our REST API
 - Deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot services running in AWS


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Arts & Technology (Arts & Humanities / Computer Science)
The University of Texas at Dallas
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22