Akshay Pk

Akshay Pk has a diverse work experience in various roles and companies. Akshay is currently working as a Principal System Engineer at Backbase, where they lead a team and mentors others in implementing best practices in the areas of Cloud and DevOps. Prior to this, they worked as a Senior System Engineer at Backbase, where they implemented multi-cluster service mesh and experimented with service mesh federation. Before joining Backbase, Akshay worked as a System Engineer (DevOps) at Backbase, where they implemented infrastructure automation and customized helm charts for microservices.

Akshay has also held the position of Chief Technology Officer at NetworkGeek, where they developed customized curricula for various AWS and Microsoft Azure certifications. As the Chief Executive Officer at Zeros Initiative, Akshay released their own course content on AWS, which is available for free on the Tamil Cloud YouTube channel.

Further back in their career, Akshay worked as a Senior Cloud Engineer at Presidio, where they worked with various technologies and cloud platforms for monitoring and logging. Akshay also worked briefly as a Cloud Engineer in the Cloud Solutions Group at Presidio. Prior to that, Akshay worked as a Cloud Engineer at Coda Global, where they developed customized helm charts and managed Kubernetes environments. Akshay also worked as a DevOps Engineer at Blackstraw.ai, where they focused on improving CI/CD pipelines and application security.

Their early work experience includes the role of Technical Analyst at Revature India, where they worked on projects utilizing Spring Boot, Spring Data, and Hibernate. Akshay deployed applications on public cloud platforms such as AWS and implemented logging and monitoring solutions.

Overall, Akshay Pk's work experience demonstrates their expertise in various aspects of system engineering, DevOps, cloud platforms, and application development.

Akshay Pk graduated from Jeppiaar Engineering College in 2017 with a Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology. Since then, they have obtained various certifications in cloud computing and related fields such as Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals, Hashicorp Terraform Associate, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Associate, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, CompTIA Linux+, LPIC-1, AWS Sysops Administrator Associate, Oracle Certified Associate, AWS Developer Associate, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, and AWS Security Specialty.