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Akshat Kumar

A Senior Software Engineer at ValueLabs, passionate about building efficient, scalable software. I’ve worked on optimizing media platforms, integrating AI-driven features, and reducing AWS costs by over $120K annually. With a strong command of .NET, Vue.js, AWS, and Kubernetes, I bring full-stack expertise to every project. I hold a B.Tech in Computer Science from NIST Berhampur and have certifications in cloud automation and multi-cloud systems

  • Role

    Sr Software & Docker Engineer

  • Years of Experience

    3 years

Professional Summary

3Years
  • Jun, 2022 - Present3 yr 4 months

    Senior Software Engineer

    ValueLabs
  • Mar, 2022 - May, 2022 2 months

    Software Development Engineer Intern

    ValueLabs

Applications & Tools Known

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    Vue

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    AWS

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    Drupal

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    Solr

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    RabbitMQ

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    EC2

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    S3

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    SQS

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    SNS

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    Lambda

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    Kubernetes

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    Docker

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    VS Code

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    Visual Studio

Work History

3Years

Senior Software Engineer

ValueLabs
Jun, 2022 - Present3 yr 4 months
    Worked on Media storage and publishing app end to end. Reduced the search time of newly created media files by 50%. Created workspace feature inside app for better management, availability and segregation of media files for different teams. Led a cost-saving initiative by identifying unused AWS resources, establishing S3 bucket expiration policies and removing unnecessary media references, leading to an annual cost reduction exceeding $120,000 in AWS expenditures. Integrated different LLMs in media app for prompt enhancements given by user and then custom AI image generation. .Net, Vue, Javascript, C#, PostgreSQL, Drupal, RabbitMQ, Solr, AWS, EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, Amazon Elastic Transcoder, Lambda, Kubernetes

Software Development Engineer Intern

ValueLabs
Mar, 2022 - May, 2022 2 months
    Built an app which helps interns to submit their different projects during internship. App also have track and edit feature for older submissions. Vue, Javascript, .Net, Python fast API, Solr

Achievements

  • Employee of the Month, ValueLabs, Mar 2022
  • Idea Presentation Winner, NIST, Feb 2019

Major Projects

3Projects

Emotion Based Music Player

Jan, 2021 - Dec, 2021 11 months
    Created a music player app which suggest and plays songs based on facial expressions and emotions. App also have Sign In and Sign Up features for authentication functionalities. Used DeepFace framework for facial expressions recognition. React JS, Javascript, Firebase, MongoDB, Node

Deployed Web App over AWS EKS Cluster

Jan, 2020 - Dec, 2020 11 months
    Created a Kubernetes cluster on AWS EKS and deployed web app. It really helped for testing app feature as well as availability and scalability over public cloud. HTML, CSS, Javascript, AWS EKS, Git

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure using Terraform

Jan, 2020 - Dec, 2020 11 months
    Created a Hybrid cloud infrastructure using private and public cloud services for testing of any type of apps in different environments. Used Openstack Magnum as private and AWS EKS as public cloud services respectively. Terraform, Openstack, AWS.

Education

  • B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering

    NIST Berhampur (2022)

Certifications

  • Red hat enterprise linux automation with ansible rh294

  • Hybrid multi-cloud and mlops on linuxworld

  • Cloud development

  • Exploring apis on qwiklabs

  • Deploying appliocations