Akshay Batra
Senior/Lead Backend & Data Engineer (Staff-ready) | Java, Spring Boot, Databricks, AWS | System Design & Platformization
- Role
- Senior Software Engineer at Chegg Inc.
- Location
- Delhi, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Akshay Batra
I am a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems, data platforms, and cron-job applications. I specialize in Java 17, Spring Boot, Databricks (bronze/silver/gold lakehouse), and AWS. At Chegg, I’ve led multiple modernization and platformization initiatives — including creating reusable Databricks templates, enforcing documentation frameworks, and migrating cron workloads to AWS SAM to eliminate API throttling incidents. These changes improved developer velocity, reduced operational incidents, and improved compliance. I enjoy solving hard technical problems at scale: designing resilient systems, ensuring data reliability, and driving cross-team technical alignment. I also mentor engineers and lead initiatives that improve team productivity and platform reliability. I am now looking for Staff Engineer opportunities where I can apply my expertise in backend and data systems to deliver business impact through technical leadership, system design, and reliability engineering.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer
May 2022 — Present · Delhi, IN
Built and scaled lakehouse data marts (Bronze → Silver → Gold) on Databricks, improving data freshness and reducing failures.Created Databricks developer templates adopted by multiple teams, cutting onboarding time and reducing time-to-production.Developed a docs-enforcement framework (Spring Boot + GitLab CI/CD) that blocks undocumented schema changes → improved compliance and reduced production issues.Led cron-job migration to AWS SAM, eliminating API throttling incidents and improving security with better account isolation.Modernized legacy Mule applications to Spring Boot + Lambda, reducing runtime/cost and improving maintainability.Drove Rundeck → Airflow migration, standardizing DAGs and improving reliability/observability.
Education
Jaypee Institute of Information Technology
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science
2011 — 2015
Bhai Parmanand Vidya Mandir
Intermediate, Science - PCM
2009 — 2011
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