Akshay Dhawan

About Akshay Dhawan

15+ years of experience as a technology executive and full-stack architect delivering scalable, secure SaaS and AI-native solutions across cloud ecosystems.• Currently leading 70+ engineers across 10+ global agile teams as VP of Engineering at Korn Ferry, overseeing 3 enterprise platforms• Proven leader as customer focused technical visionary to deliver efficient architecture designs & achieve business goals.• Full stack architect, experienced building distributed, secure, scalable, serverless RESTful micro-services.• Keen eye towards user experience, performance, security standards, responsive design, cross browser compatibilities.• Boosted B2B/B2C revenue (ARR~100M), excellent at client-facing communication skills, multiple projects coordination.• Proven ability to align technology strategy with business objectives, driving revenue, operational efficiency, and innovation.• Architected and launched Generative AI products using LangChain, OpenAI, RAG pipelines, and Flask with structured data/embedding integration.• Deep expertise in serverless, event-driven microservices (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions) and resilient cloud-native designs.• Spearheaded AI-first initiatives including SQL-augmented chatbots and multimodal knowledge retrieval systems.• Strong UX/UI leadership — optimizing for accessibility, performance, and component reusability across React, Redux, and Next.js.• Delivered measurable outcomes including 92% ops revenue growth, 90% faster integrations, and 11% increase in retention.• Adept in leading DevSecOps maturity (Terraform, CI/CD, observability, SRE practices) and platform compliance at scale.• Known for mentorship, stakeholder engagement, cross-functional leadership, and execution in high-velocity environments

Experience

1. VP of Software Engineering

   Korn Ferry

   Aug 2024 — Present · US

Education

• Panjab University

  BE, Electronics and Communications

  2003 — 2007

• University of Southern California

  Master, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  2007 — 2009

Skills

• Object Oriented Design
• Amazon Vpc
• Amazon Ec2
• Node.js
• Subversion
• Mysql
• Amazon Cloudfront
• Entity Framework
• Visual Basic .net (Vb.net)
• Iis
• Soap
• Mvc
• Visual Studio
• Amazon S3
• Web Services
• Typescript
• C#
• Oop
• Amazon Rds
• Web Development
• C++
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Linq
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Css
• Databases
• Redis
• Software Design
• Jquery
• Web Applications
• Wcf
• Xml
• Rest
• Asp.net
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Sdlc
• Javascript
• Agile Methodologies
• Windows Presentation Foundation (Wpf)
• Amazon Dynamodb