Summary
Akhil Ramlakan is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with a decade of professional experience and a strong 5+ year focus on backend systems across both startups and large enterprises. He specializes in Scala and Python for building scalable microservices, payments, and optimization-driven systems, having helped create checkout and payments products and production-grade APIs at companies like Flow, PayPay, and Hopper (now acquired into Capital One). Akhil’s background spans high-throughput financial and commerce domains—he’s delivered monitoring and hot-swap tooling for hundreds of bank servers and reduced operational tickets through pragmatic automation. Comfortable across the stack, he combines pragmatic production experience with an algorithmic bent, often applying optimization techniques to real-world system challenges.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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