Akhil Gudavalli

About Akhil Gudavalli

I am a highly accomplished Software Engineer with 8 years of experience designing and delivering scalable data-driven and cloud-native solutions. My expertise spans microservices development, distributed data processing, and enterprise cloud platforms, with a strong background in building systems that drive business insights, analytics, and customer engagement.At Microsoft, I lead the architecture and development of large-scale marketing and sales data products, enabling contact management and campaign performance measurement across global teams. My work includes building and optimizing solutions with Azure Synapse, Databricks, ADF, Cosmos DB, Microsoft Fabric.NET, Azure Service Bus, AKS, and Azure Function Apps—strengthening the sales ecosystem by ensuring high availability, scalability, and seamless integration across business applications. I focus on secure, reliable, and compliant engineering practices (GDPR, CCPA) while enhancing developer efficiency through automation.Previously, I played a key role at Sling TV in migrating monolithic services into microservices (Python, Go) to improve scalability and resilience. My career journey also includes developing intelligent automation systems, co-founding a startup applying machine learning for customer insights, and contributing to enterprise software at SAP Labs. Core Skills & Expertise:Programming: Python, Go, C#.NETCloud & Big Data: Azure (Synapse, Databricks, AKS, Service Bus, Function Apps), AWS, Hadoop, Kafka, Kubernetes, DockerDatabases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDBFrameworks/Tools: Flask, Django, TensorFlow, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, TableauI thrive in collaborative, fast-paced environments and am passionate about solving complex problems, learning new technologies, and driving impact through data, cloud, and enterprise software innovation. Open to opportunities across the United States | Willing to relocate

Experience

1. Software Engineer 2

   Microsoft

   Jul 2020 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

Education

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science

  2012 — 2016

• Utah State University

  Master of Science (MS), Computer Science

  2016

Skills

• Spark
• Seaborn
• Software Development
• Python
• Javaserver Pages (Jsp)
• Javascript
• Deep Learning
• Html
• Matplotlib
• Algorithms
• Groovy
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Artificial Neural Networks
• Debugging
• Pandas
• Data Structures
• Statistical Data Analysis
• C
• Programming
• Predictive Analytics
• Data Science
• Microsoft Word
• Big Data
• Microsoft Office
• Sas
• Git
• Data Mining
• Numpy
• Microsoft Excel
• Sql
• Restful Webservices
• Tableau
• Linux
• Databases
• Data Analysis
• Flask
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Java
• Machine Learning
• Microsoft Powerpoint