Akhil PuvvadaSoftware Engineer.

I build the kind of backend systems that work best when nobody notices them. Eight years across e-commerce, retail media, and financial platforms has given me deep experience with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and high-availability design. These days I'm equally focused on how AI agents are beginning to reshape the way engineering teams operate.

8 yrsExperience

99.99%Availability

4.0MS GPA · Texas A&M

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Work

where I've been & what I built there

eBay Shipping & Fulfillment

Mar 2025 – Present

Software Development Engineer III

Designed Combined Shipping across 8 global marketplaces and built the event-driven fulfillment engine serving as source of truth for all daily order workflows
Built an AI on-call triage agent using MCP servers; led migration of shipping services to the Unified Listing Platform

$95M iGMV 5M+ daily orders 99.99% uptime 85% faster triage

Kroger · 84.51° Advertising Technology

Nov 2022 – Jan 2025

Senior Software Engineer

Led self-serve retail media creative portal replacing Microsoft PromoteIQ, including zero-downtime migration of 150K+ assets with versioned state management and full audit history
Built AI-powered creative validation library; standardized Azure IaC with Terraform across 200+ resources

2,800+ CPG brands 150K+ assets migrated 833+ QA hrs/yr $250K+ cloud savings

American Express Developer Platform & Open Banking

Aug 2020 – Nov 2022

Software Engineer II

Transformed Amex Developer Portal into a B2B API marketplace with self-service provisioning, cutting onboarding from 4 business days to under a day
Built Open Banking backend services for UK and EU markets processing 15M+ daily financial transactions under OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and FAPI compliance

75% faster onboarding 15M+ daily transactions FAPI compliant

Tata Consultancy Services Biometrics

Jun 2016 – Jul 2018

Systems Engineer

Improved pattern-recognition on the FACTS fingerprint system, migrated CADB module from Ruby to Java and deployed to PCF, cutting build and deploy time by ~60%

60% faster deploys

Technical Stack

tools I actually know, not just listed on a resume

Languages

Java Python TypeScript JavaScript C#

Backend & APIs

Spring Boot Node.js REST gRPC GraphQL Angular React

AI & Agents

Generative AI LLM Multi-Agent Systems MCP Servers ML Pipelines

Data & Messaging

Apache Kafka Kafka Streams RabbitMQ Azure Service Bus Redis Snowflake

Databases

PostgreSQL MySQL Couchbase MongoDB Cassandra CockroachDB

Cloud & DevOps

AWS Azure Kubernetes OpenShift Terraform Datadog Grafana Prometheus Jenkins

Education

before the on-call rotations began

Texas A&M University

Master of Science in Computer Science

GPA 4.0 / 4.0
2018 – 2020

SRM University, India

B.Tech in Electrical & Electronics Engineering

GPA 3.7 / 4.0
2012 – 2016

Contact

got a hard problem? I'm probably already thinking about something like it

Let's work together

I think the best engineers are just the most obsessively curious people in the room. I'm one of them. Seattle-based.

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