# Rakesh K.

> Principal Engineer @ Oracle | Designing Scalable Billing Platforms

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rakeshk

Total 14+ years experience in Enterprise application architecting, designing, developing and supporting 

Expertise in Java, RESTful micro service, containers, kubernetes, docker cloud and big data computing and automation 

6+  yrs on Big data technologies Hadoop spark, kafka, kafka connect,  spark, mapreduce, hive, oozie, hbase
Experience with Cloudera Distribution CDH4/5 and MS azure HDInsight.
Designed API gateway leveraging open source netflix zuul
	Highly skilled in working with Linux, shell scripts and supporting production issues.
	Advanced experience in writing splunk queries and creating report on splunk tool.
	Expertise in working on Amazon infrastructure services such as EC2, ELB, S3 and SES.
	Designed and Developed restful micro services using spring boot, spring data etc
	Worked on Performance optimization for J2EE applications and Mysql database
	Agile methodologies and SCRUM practices

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Oracle
Jan 2019 – Present | Redwood City, California, United States
Architected and designed next-generation billing platform for Oracle cloud metered usages and scaled the system that processes millions of transaction within an hour and makes the cost available for customers visibility.

### Senior Web Engineer @ Shutterfly, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
	Architecting, designing and developing restful micro services for content platform leveraging Shutterfly inhouse springboard framework which is wrapper on spring boot 1.5.
	Developed CI/CD pipeline using git, Jenkins and kubernetes.
	Customized Netflix open source project called zuul to be used as API gateway for the next generation content microservice.
	Worked on integration of the caching server Squid, CDN (limelight and Akamai) and content microservice.
	Used git repository for the code versioning and configuration.
	Used Splunk tool to monitor/troubleshoot the production issues.

### Senior Software Engineer @ University of Phoenix
Jan 2012 – Jan 2018 | Phoenix, Arizona Area
Deep expertise on RESTful webServices, spark, Hbase, Hadoop, Hive on CDH4/5 and also on MS azure HDInsight.
Spark Streaming and kafka
Amazon Lambda, EC2, RDS,SES.
Loves coding and solving complex problems in simple way

### Senior Analyst @ Verizon, US
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
Attend/schedule/drive business meetings to discuss project updates, queries, propose new enhancements and provide value adds to the existing business flow
Lead and co-ordinate Architectural meetings, conduct info-session etc
Evaluating Big Data technologies SAP HANA, Apache Hadoop and Apache Hbase

### Senior SAP Netweaver Consultant @ CIBER
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010
Implemented Analytics tool using JAVA/J2EE on SAP Netweaver.

### Senior Software Engineer @ SAP Labs
Jan 2004 – Jan 2008
SAP Business By Design development, worked on SAP Netweaver Enterprise portal, Webdynpro, AP7.0, Enterprise service framework.
SAP PI 7.0


## Education
### BE in Computer Science
Savitribai Phule Pune University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12