Abhi V

About Abhi V

Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building highly critical, customer-facing backend systems, with a strong focus on Cloud, Infrastructure, DevOps, and Reliability Engineering. I specialize in designing and operating scalable, high-performance Java services using strong object-oriented design and production-first engineering practices.Currently at Apple (Health Software), I work on building and operating backend platforms that power health features used by millions of users. My role spans cloud architecture, infrastructure reliability, CI/CD, and SRE practices to ensure high availability, performance, and operational excellence.Key highlights:At Apple, designing and maintaining cloud-native backend services with a strong emphasis on scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.Driving improvements in CI/CD pipelines, release processes, and infrastructure automation to enable faster and safer deployments.Applying SRE principles to improve system stability, observability, and incident response.Improved service latency from 80–90ms to ~25ms (P95) using Java profiling and performance tuning, while reducing CPU utilization that was consistently hitting 100%.Built complete CI/CD pipelines from scratch using Jenkins and Looper for new applications.Designed and implemented an in-house caching service with ~60% cache hit rate, significantly improving performance and reducing timeouts to near zero.Led a project transition across locations and built a 10-member engineering team from the ground up.Migrated repositories from SVN to Git and build systems from Ant to Maven, creating detailed guides adopted by multiple teams.I bring an end-to-end ownership mindset, having worked across Development, SRE, DevOps, QA Automation, Production Support, Release/Configuration Management, and Performance Engineering. I’m passionate about building platforms where cloud, infrastructure, and DevOps practices are first-class citizens, enabling teams to ship faster while keeping systems secure, stable, and highly scalable.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Apple

   Jan 2023 — Present · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Education

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2006 — 2010

Skills

• Software Development
• Unix
• J2ee Web Services
• Client Integration
• Configuration Management
• Production Support
• Sql
• Restful Webservices
• Client Expectations Management
• Data Analysis
• Web Services
• Pl/Sql
• Javascript
• Solr
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Soap
• Quality Assurance
• C
• Databases
• Release Management
• Design
• Maintenance
• Testing
• Rabbitmq
• Soapui
• Java
• Transition Planning
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Lucene
• Knowledge Management