Summary
Akhil Suri is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of experience designing and delivering high-performance, cloud-native systems for retail, e-commerce, and supply chain domains. He specializes in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, event-driven architectures and has deep hands-on experience with Kafka, Hazelcast, Cassandra, Kubernetes and GCP to build fault-tolerant platforms that handle billions of transactions. At Blue Yonder he drove architecture and performance optimizations—reducing cache memory costs by 48% and building a generic disaster recovery and test automation framework that cut testing effort by 80%—and now contributes at scale within Apple. He pairs technical execution with mentorship and cross-team collaboration, owning end-to-end delivery from design to CI/CD, monitoring and production tuning. Beyond backend systems, he has applied machine learning and computer vision to practical problems like ticket categorization and autonomous navigation, showing a bent for applied research. He authors a blog on autonomous technologies, reflecting a continuous curiosity that informs his engineering decisions.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science at D.I.T. Dehradun
D.A.V. Public School
English, Hindi