Akshay Parvatikar

Akshay Parvatikar has a strong background in technical product specialization and software engineering. Akshay currently works as a Manager Technical Product Specialist at Progress Chef, where they have been since 2021. In this role, they are responsible for overseeing the technical aspects of Chef products and has hands-on experience with CI/CD tools. Prior to this, from 2016 to 2021, Akshay worked at Akamai Technologies in various roles. As a Solutions Architect, they ensured the delivery of robust system solutions and conducted requirements gathering and analysis. Akshay began their career at Akamai as an Associate Solutions Architect, where they conducted architectural evaluations and designs. Before joining Akamai, Akshay worked as a Software Engineer at Pillar4 from 2014 to 2016, where they developed business logic and Java code using the Spring Framework. Additionally, they gained experience as a Software Test Engineer at QSpiders - Software Testing Training Institute in 2014. Overall, Akshay Parvatikar has a diverse background in technical product specialization, software engineering, and testing.

Akshay Parvatikar completed their education chronologically as follows:

From 2001 to 2008, they attended Florence High School in Bangalore and obtained their SSLC degree in Science.

From 2010 to 2014, they attended the Global Academy Of Technology and earned a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Information Science and Engineering.

In terms of additional certifications, they obtained the following:

- In September 2014, they became an AMCAT Certified Software Engineer - IT Services through Aspiring Minds.

- In June 2019, they obtained the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification from Amazon Web Services (AWS).

- Also in June 2019, they achieved the Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate certification from Amazon.

- In January 2020, they obtained the Verified International Academic Qualifications certification from the World Education Services.

- In March 2021, they became a Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) through Udemy.

- In July 2021, they obtained two certifications: Agile Project Management from Udemy and Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals from Microsoft.