Akshay Malhotra

Experience

  1. EY
    Oct 2023 – Present

    Ernst & Young

    Senior, Technology Consulting

    Charlotte, North Carolina

    • Java
    • Kafka
    • Microsoft Entra ID
    • Distributed Systems
    • Reduced processing time by 95% for agentic workflows, improving code and infrastructure concurrency.
    • Increased agentic workflow success rate by 18%, resolving API race conditions and streamlining blob storage usage.
    • Built resiliency mechanisms for 10+ distributed microservices, reducing outages by 22%.
    • Built a reusable utility for dynamic SSL connectivity using trust and key stores, adopted by 3 services on startup.
    • Developed validation and authentication interceptors following security best practices, reducing redundancy.
    • Engineered Kafka partitioning logic for event-driven workflows, improving performance and reducing overhead.
    • Oversaw integration of Microsoft EntraID into services; built a utility for API token generation and caching.
    • Led technical mentorship for 5+ engineers on distributed systems architecture and drove hiring through 10+ technical interviews.
  2. ZS
    Jun 2022 – Sep 2023

    ZS Associates Inc.

    Evanston, Illinois

    1. Software Engineer

      Jul 2023 – Sep 2023
      • GraphQL
      • Frontend
      • Led GraphQL integration across the frontend and conducted migration POCs, accelerating go-to-market by 2 years.
      • Owned a core module's readability and maintainability, reviewing contributions and refactoring source code.

    2. Software Engineer Intern

      Jun 2022 – Jan 2023
      • Full-Stack
      • CRUD
      • Developed an employee management and insights portal, including CRUD operations, historical sales data import, and on-demand sales insights generation.
      • Contributed to ZAIDYN's product requirements and built a full-stack module for its incentive workflow.
  3. IE
    Jan 2018 – Jun 2021

    InfoEdge India Limited

    Senior Software Engineer

    Noida, India

    • REST APIs
    • Kafka
    • ETL Pipelines
    • Optimized SaaS platform services (175rps), including APIs, ETL batch pipelines, schedulers, and Kafka consumers.
    • Architected and built scalable RESTful APIs for a core microservice, reducing response time by 3x.
    • Expedited the SDLC of several web pages, increasing page views by 18% and lead generation by 15%.
    • Developed an aggregator web service organizing webpage business logic, reducing outage time by 25%.
    • Awarded the Excellence Award for exceptional contribution to business success.