Akhil Sreekar

Owned backend systems across Order, Inventory, EDI, Onboarding, and Waystation workflows supporting supplier operations at scale. Mentored 6 engineers, conducted code reviews, and contributed to architecture and design decisions. Led project as interim Engineering Manager, established milestones & drafted technical roadmaps for 6 months. Reduced supplier onboarding time from 28 days to 7 days (75% reduction). Led end-to-end development of the Subscription Management system across backend and frontend, increasing email action rate to 13%. Developed notification microservice for 20K+ suppliers, reducing manual effort by 70%+. Architected Kafka-based event-driven system across 5+ services, reducing synchronous dependencies and enabling independent scaling. Built 8+ Datadog dashboards across multiple services, improving observability and debugging efficiency. Built change-log and audit workflow to improve traceability of operational and product-level updates. Re-architected focus-areas upload pipeline from ~500 to ~10M rows, enabling large-scale operational processing.

Joined as first engineer and helped scale the engineering team from 0 to 7, building core platform systems from scratch. Built 10+ modules across worker and business applications serving 1M+ workers and 400+ businesses. Initially owned backend, mobile, and product logic, later transitioning into a backend-focused role as the platform scaled. Developed backend workflows for onboarding, document verification, and job recommendation, improving worker lifecycle and job matching. Developed automated attendance and payroll module for 1M+ users, improving transparency and reducing manual effort. Built facial recognition and QR-based attendance capture system, improving accuracy of worker check-ins and reducing manual attendance errors.

Built backend systems and recommendation engine optimizing telecom plan selection for 100K users and 50+ companies. Built SMS classification system processing 2M messages/day, categorizing into Important, OTP, and Promotional. Built payment and coupon workflows for personalized recharge experiences.

Developed an internal chat application for team communication use cases during internship.