trace: akshay.career
Experience
7 years of backend work: C++ tooling, Go microservices for payments, and now observability infrastructure at Last9.
Career trace
service · operation
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akshay.career 7y 2m
attributes
- service.name
- Last9
- role
- Senior Software Engineer
- location
- Remote
- start
- Aug 2024
- end
- Present
- duration
- 2y 2m
- ClickHouse
- Altinity
- OpenTelemetry
- Kafka
- Go
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- MCP
events (11)
- Led the zero-downtime migration of 50+ live tenants from ClickHouse Cloud to Altinity, significantly cutting compute cost
- Kept the ingestion pipeline (OpenTelemetry Collector → Kafka → ClickHouse) stable at up to 960M events/min (logs and traces) during IPL and India vs Pakistan traffic peaks
- Designed and built the APM backend, one of the product's core features, from MVP onwards
- Built ingestion-time extract, remap and drop rules, plus user-defined physical indexes that route filtered data (say, staging or production logs) into its own table
- Built cold storage that backs up logs to the customer's own S3 or GCS bucket and rehydrates them on demand, so archived logs are queryable again
- Automated tenant onboarding, so a SaaS signup or BYOC (bring your own cloud) setup provisions the tenant's infrastructure on Kubernetes
- Led core Logs and Traces features from design to production
- Optimized ClickHouse query performance for large-scale logs and traces
- Built a ClickHouse SQL query generator supporting filters, parsers (regex, JSON, logfmt), and transformations
- Architected an event-driven S3 ingestion pipeline for logs (near real-time)
- Built an MCP server for real-time debugging from Cursor, VS Code, and Claude
attributes
- service.name
- Last9
- role
- Senior Software Engineer
- location
- Remote
- start
- Aug 2024
- end
- Present
- duration
- 2y 2m
- ClickHouse
- Altinity
- OpenTelemetry
- Kafka
- Go
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- MCP
events (11)
- Led the zero-downtime migration of 50+ live tenants from ClickHouse Cloud to Altinity, significantly cutting compute cost
- Kept the ingestion pipeline (OpenTelemetry Collector → Kafka → ClickHouse) stable at up to 960M events/min (logs and traces) during IPL and India vs Pakistan traffic peaks
- Designed and built the APM backend, one of the product's core features, from MVP onwards
- Built ingestion-time extract, remap and drop rules, plus user-defined physical indexes that route filtered data (say, staging or production logs) into its own table
- Built cold storage that backs up logs to the customer's own S3 or GCS bucket and rehydrates them on demand, so archived logs are queryable again
- Automated tenant onboarding, so a SaaS signup or BYOC (bring your own cloud) setup provisions the tenant's infrastructure on Kubernetes
- Led core Logs and Traces features from design to production
- Optimized ClickHouse query performance for large-scale logs and traces
- Built a ClickHouse SQL query generator supporting filters, parsers (regex, JSON, logfmt), and transformations
- Architected an event-driven S3 ingestion pipeline for logs (near real-time)
- Built an MCP server for real-time debugging from Cursor, VS Code, and Claude
Aug 2024 – Present
Senior Software Engineer · Last9
Remote
- Led the zero-downtime migration of 50+ live tenants from ClickHouse Cloud to Altinity, significantly cutting compute cost
- Kept the ingestion pipeline (OpenTelemetry Collector → Kafka → ClickHouse) stable at up to 960M events/min (logs and traces) during IPL and India vs Pakistan traffic peaks
- Designed and built the APM backend, one of the product's core features, from MVP onwards
- Built ingestion-time extract, remap and drop rules, plus user-defined physical indexes that route filtered data (say, staging or production logs) into its own table
- Built cold storage that backs up logs to the customer's own S3 or GCS bucket and rehydrates them on demand, so archived logs are queryable again
- Automated tenant onboarding, so a SaaS signup or BYOC (bring your own cloud) setup provisions the tenant's infrastructure on Kubernetes
- Led core Logs and Traces features from design to production
- Optimized ClickHouse query performance for large-scale logs and traces
- Built a ClickHouse SQL query generator supporting filters, parsers (regex, JSON, logfmt), and transformations
- Architected an event-driven S3 ingestion pipeline for logs (near real-time)
- Built an MCP server for real-time debugging from Cursor, VS Code, and Claude
Jul 2022 – Aug 2024
Backend Engineer · Tazapay
Remote
- Lead contributor to Account, Report, KYB, Notification, Event, and OpsDashboard microservices (Go, gRPC, 92% unit test coverage)
- Cut transaction report generation from 15 minutes to under 1 minute with a new Go service + CDC (Kinesis) architecture
- Transaction monitoring: 40% faster processing, 15% less memory, 10k–30k transactions/day
- Designed the PayFac model for the Rapyd provider; refactored card routing in the Router service
- Built an ops control panel in Go for managing merchant payment methods; reduced ops tickets by 80%
- Built merchant RBAC and custom notifications for async payment methods (bank/wire transfers)
Jun 2021 – Jul 2022
Software Engineer · Parallel Wireless
Pune
- Built microservices in Go with REST APIs; enabled multi-client support in a core service
- Owned the Alarms/Events microservice; supported CI/CD automation
Aug 2019 – Jun 2021
Software Engineer · Netscout
Pune
- Built an automation framework that generates dynamic web reports
- Built HTTP APIs for standalone C++ tools
- Restructured makefiles for parallel compilation, speeding up builds
BE Computer Science, Govt. College of Engineering and Research, Avasari, Pune (2015 – 2019)