Summary
Abhishek Singh is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable, resilient backend systems in Python and Go across startups and large enterprises. Currently at Akamai, he has progressed through senior technical roles and led architecture and delivery efforts that bridge business needs and engineering realities. He specializes in microservices, cloud-native deployments (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Docker), and data-backed systems using PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis and Elasticsearch. Known for hands-on coding as well as technical decision-making, he brings strong TDD and Agile discipline to teams while ensuring readable, maintainable code. An often overlooked strength is his operational experience—having written Go services deployed on Google’s Borg/GKE—which informs pragmatic production-ready designs.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Krishna Engineering College, Ghaziabad, U.P.
High School and Intermediate, Mathematics, High School and Intermediate, Mathematics at Central Hindu Boys School (K), BHU, Varanasi
English, Hindi