Syed Akhtar
Principal Architect at MediaAgility - Part of Persistent Systems
Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolSyed Akhtar is a Principal Architect with 12 years of experience designing and delivering scalable, enterprise-grade systems across cloud, web, mobile, and embedded environments. He blends hands-on engineering in Java, Python, C#, and Ruby with architecture work spanning AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform to build resilient, low-latency distributed platforms. His background includes leading data science initiatives at Gartner and building text-analytics and sentiment engines, giving him a rare mix of ML/NLP expertise alongside classical enterprise integration skills. Syed has repeatedly driven modernization projects—rewiring legacy mainframe and AS/400 systems into modern stacks—and built configurable file processors, schedulers, and SAML service providers for compliance-critical applications. A collaborative leader and mentor, he focuses on DevOps automation, observability, and team growth while remaining deeply involved in coding and system design. Based in New Jersey, he’s known for turning complex business requirements into pragmatic, production-ready solutions that balance scalability with operational simplicity.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Computer Maintenance computer maintenance, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Computer Maintenance computer maintenance at Aligarh Muslim UniversityMaster of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) Computer Science, Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) Computer Science at Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University
English, Hindi, UrduProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mohsinbcm/atcip
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Automated & Timely Crop Insurance Payments
Contributions:11 pushes in 14 days
timelypaymentscrop-insurancecropinsurance
mohsinbcm/sswitch
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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