Akilan Elango
Senior Software Engineer at Kong Inc.
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAkilan Elango is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with 7 years of experience building and leading backend and platform teams across startups and enterprise firms. He has progressed from founding backend lead at Squadcast to technical and engineering leadership roles, and most recently holds a senior engineering position at Kong after brief senior roles at SolarWinds and VMware. Akilan specializes in designing reliable, production-grade distributed systems and incident-response tooling, having shaped Squadcast’s core platform through its growth phases. He combines hands-on coding with team leadership, mentoring engineers while driving architecture and delivery. Notably, his career shows a pattern of stepping into early-stage product challenges and rapidly scaling systems and teams to meet enterprise demands. Trained at IIT (BHU) Varanasi, he pairs strong engineering fundamentals with pragmatic operational experience.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B. Tech, ENGINEERING, B. Tech, ENGINEERING at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
English, Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (33)
monitoring10
incident-management10
service-level-agreement10
reliability-engineering10
site-reliability-engineering10
reliability10
devops10
sre10
security9
send-sms9
dom-library8
plivo8
dom7
xml7
mailgun6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SquadcastHub/sensu-squadcast-handler
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:3 reviews, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
aki237/modctl
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
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