Akshat Agrawal

About Akshat Agrawal

I am an engineering leader with 20+ years of experience building and scaling large-scale distributed platforms across digital commerce, payments, and enterprise data ecosystems.Over the course of my career, I have grown organically from a software developer to architect to engineering leader, gaining deep hands-on technical expertise while building and leading high-performing engineering organizations.Currently, I lead global engineering teams delivering large-scale marketplace and platform systems supporting millions of users and high-volume commerce transactions.My experience spans:• Building and scaling distributed platform architectures• Leading global engineering organizations across India and the US• Delivering marketplace, digital commerce and payments platforms• Driving microservices and event-driven architecture modernization• Partnering with product and business leaders to translate strategy into scalable technology platforms• Building strong engineering culture through mentoring, hiring and leadership developmentI have also led large vendor engineering programs, including SOW preparation, vendor onboarding and delivery governance while managing distributed teams across multiple geographies.Throughout my career, I have focused on developing strong engineering leaders, mentoring senior engineers, architects and engineering managers, and building organizations capable of delivering complex platform systems at scale.My recent focus areas include:• Platform engineering and scalable marketplace architectures• Cloud-native distributed systems• Engineering excellence and developer productivity• Adoption of AI-assisted engineering practicesI am passionate about building high-impact engineering organizations, mentoring leaders, and delivering platforms that power large-scale digital ecosystems.Core Expertise:Platform Engineering • Distributed Systems • Marketplace Platforms • Payments Systems • Digital Commerce • Microservices Architecture • Event-Driven Systems • Cloud Platforms • Engineering Leadership • Global Engineering Teams • Platform Scalability • Vendor Delivery Management • Engineering Transformation • AI-assisted Engineering

Experience

1. Engineering Leader

   Walmart

   Dec 2021 — Present

   Lead engineering for marketplace platforms powering seller onboarding, catalog systems and order lifecycle platforms.Key Impact:• Lead global organization across US and India• Deliver platforms supporting millions of products and high-volume transactions• Driving microservices and event-driven architecture modernization• Leading vendor engineering teams and strategic delivery partnerships• Hiring and mentoring senior engineers, architects and engineering managers

Education

• University Institute of Technology, RGPV

  BE, Computer Science

  2002 — 2006

• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

  ILead Program- Leadership in Retail( through Walmart)

Skills

• Integration
• Spring
• Sql
• Hibernate
• Jdbc
• Servlets
• Weblogic
• Core Java
• Testing
• Soa
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Requirements Analysis
• Pl/Sql
• Java
• Requirements Gathering
• Web Services
• Db2
• Xml
• Agile Methodologies
• Tomcat
• Jsp
• Software Project Management
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Unix
• Vss
• Struts
• Databases
• Spring Framework