Akshay Agarwal

About Akshay Agarwal

I’m a Platform & Infrastructure Engineer with 9+ years of experience building resilient, scalable systems at high-growth tech companies like Razorpay, Gojek, and Slice.I specialize in designing internal platforms that empower developers — from self-service Kubernetes deployment pipelines and Terraform-based IaC, to monitoring, alerting, and cost-optimized cloud architecture on AWS and GCP.What I bring to the table:Deep hands-on experience in Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, AWS, and GCPArchitect self-service platforms for app delivery, observability, and securityAutomate infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, Helm, GitOps, and ArgoCDBuild robust Kubernetes platforms (multi-tenant, secure, cost-optimized)Implement developer-focused CI/CD pipelines and secrets management at scaleIntegrate SLOs, auto-scaling, and fine-grained alerting for system healthWhat I care about:Building infra that’s invisible until it’s neededReducing cognitive load for product developersMetrics-driven scaling and SLO-driven reliability

Experience

1. Senior Member of Technical Staff

   Salesforce

   Jul 2025 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

Education

• National Institute of Technology Warangal

  Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science

  2012 — 2016

• St. Joseph's public School

  ICSE, Primary Education

  2002 — 2010

• Shivam Junior College

  High School, SSC

  2010 — 2012

Skills

• Octave
• Java
• Software Development
• Python
• Node.js
• Php
• Mysql
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Jsp
• Oop
• Teamwork
• Javascript
• C++
• Xml
• Html
• Algorithms
• Databases
• Computer Networking
• Sql
• Data Structures
• Css
• C
• Programming
• Microsoft Office