Akash Kumar
Principal Software Engineer at OpenText
Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAkash Kumar is a Principal Software Engineer based in Karnataka, India, with over a decade of experience building resilient DevOps and cloud infrastructure for global R&D and consumer-facing platforms. He has led end-to-end CI/CD and GitLab platform engineering at scale—designing GitLab Geo + HA, tuning Puma/Sidekiq for high-concurrency CI, and automating backups, patching, and disaster-recovery drills. His work spans Kubernetes, Istio, ELK, Redis, Consul, Ansible, and Terraform, and includes migrating monolithic images to project-specific Docker artifacts and creating isolated autoscaling clusters with project-level isolation. At Sony he owned the cloud infrastructure for developer.sony.com, automating AWS stacks, AMI pipelines, and secure asset delivery to improve performance and reliability. Akash combines hands-on automation with security and observability practices—implementing DDoS detection, API rate limiting, and Grafana Alertmanager integrations to reduce operational risk. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture that balances scalability, compliance, and reproducible runbooks across large engineering organizations.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityPUC, Science, PUC, Science at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Ramgarh Cantt
English, Hindi, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Punjabi
Github Skills (8)
maven-project10
maven-plugin8
maven8
javadoc7
java7
artifactory7
jfrog-cli6
cli4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
akashkrkashyap/jenkins-pipeline-examples
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
akashkrkashyap/maven-simple
Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
Example Maven project demonstrating the use of
Contributions:38 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
maven-pluginjavamavenmaven-project
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