Vishal Akkalkote
Engineering Lead at ToolTime
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolVishal Akkalkote is an Engineering Lead based in Berlin with eight years of hands-on experience building microservices, distributed systems, and big data pipelines using Apache Spark and Kafka. He progressed from developer roles at ThoughtWorks and Luxoft to senior engineering and leadership positions at Spark Networks and ToolTime, blending deep technical craft with Agile delivery. A strong proponent of TDD and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), he pairs practical architecture decisions with test-first discipline. Vishal has contributed QA and test automation improvements to a popular Spring Boot tutorials repo, modernizing tests to JUnit 5 and AssertJ—evidence of his attention to robust, maintainable code. He brings both consultancy experience and product-oriented engineering leadership, often spotting quality and design issues early in the delivery lifecycle.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
SSC, SSC at Siddheshwar prashalaM.Sc(Scientific Computing) Computer S, M.Sc(Scientific Computing) Computer S at Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi
Stackoverflow
1,271reputation
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13answers
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apache-kafka
top-5%
java
top-5%
Github Skills (19)
unit-testing10
apache-commons10
commons10
testing10
assertj10
java10
hamcrest10
javas10
junit10
collections10
test-automation10
exception-handling9
apache-kafka9
ant6
spring6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
eugenp/tutorials
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Getting Started with Spring Boot 3:
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 12 commits, 18 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Vishal primarily focused on adding and refactoring unit tests within the project. They implemented tests to assert list equality, considering different scenarios related to order and content. Further, the user updated existing tests to align with JUnit 5 and added tests for AssertJ examples. They also contributed to creating test cases for exception handling and verifying copy list operations.
spring-bootspring-security-oauthsecurityauthenticationsecurity-oauth
vishal1023/tutorials
Jul 2020 - Apr 2021
Just Announced - "Learn Spring Security OAuth":
Contributions:39 pushes, 13 branches in 8 months
spring-bootspring-security-oauthsecurityauthenticationsecurity-oauth
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