Summary
Akhilesh Tripathi is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable, cost-efficient data platforms and pipelines, now working as SDE II at InMobi in Bengaluru. He has a strong track record at Zeotap migrating legacy batch systems to Delta Lake with CDC, moving Spark workloads to Kubernetes, and cutting compute and infra costs dramatically while improving data consistency. He designed large-scale user stitching pipelines handling billions of records, standardized partner integrations into a SQL-based framework, and open-sourced a reusable ETL library to simplify cross-engine data flows. Comfortable across Spark, Beam, Airflow, and event-driven orchestration, he focuses on operational reliability and pragmatic automation that reduce manual toil. Known for hunting down Spark data skew and other cost sinks, he blends deep engineering with measurable business impact. Outside work his GitHub bio hints at a relentless coding loop—eat, code, sleep—which reflects his steady commitment to shipping robust systems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Integrated Post Graduate (BTech+Mtech), Information Technology, Integrated Post Graduate (BTech+Mtech), Information Technology at ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management