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aakashsankritya/README.md

👋 Hi, I'm Akash Sankritya

🚀 Software Engineer | Backend & Distributed Systems | Currently @ PlexTrac, Previously worked at Swiggy & Uptycs

📍 India | 💻 Building scalable, high-performance data-pipeline and backend systems

🧑‍💻 About Me

  • 🔥 Backend engineer with ~6 years of experience in building low-latency, high-scale systems
  • 🧠 Strong focus on system design, performance, and cost optimization
  • 🏗️ Passionate about distributed systems, data pipelines, and backend architecture
  • 💡 Exploring ideas around data platforms, RBAC / ABAC systems, and query engines

🛠️ Tech Stack

👨‍💻 Languages

  • Go | Java (17/21/Virtual Threads) | Node.js (TypeScript)

🧱 Backend & Systems

  • Spring Boot | REST APIs | gRPC | Microservices | High-Concurrency Systems

🗄️ Data & Streaming

  • PostgreSQL | DynamoDB | Redis
  • Kafka | Debezium | CDC Pipelines
  • Apache Hudi | Trino (Distributed Query Engine)
  • Apache Ranger

☁️ Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS, GCP
  • Docker | Kubernetes

⚙️ Other

  • System Design | Caching Strategies | ABAC/RBAC
  • Performance Optimization | Cost Reduction

🧠 System Design Thinking

Design Principles I Follow:

• Optimize for scale first, then cost  
• Push computation closer to data  
• Prefer async + event-driven systems  
• Cache aggressively but invalidate smartly  
• Design for failure, not success

🤝 Let's Connect

  • 💼 LinkedIn
  • 📧 Email
  • 💬 Open to discussions on System Design, Backend Scaling, and Startups

⚡ Fun Facts

  • ☕ Coffee-powered coding
  • 🚗 Drives a Scorpio N (and debugging it sometimes 😄)
  • 🧠 Loves breaking systems… and then fixing them better
  • 🇮🇳 Based in India, working on global-scale problems

⭐ If you like my work, consider giving a star!

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  1. Doctors-Appointment-Booking-App-backend Doctors-Appointment-Booking-App-backend Public

    Spring Boot backend for the Doctor's Appointment Booking App which supports features like appointment booking and real-time video communication using Zoom SDK.

    Java 22 16

  2. Racing-Cars Racing-Cars Public

    Basic Java project following OOPS Principle. The goal is to find the most optimal vehicle which can win the race after doing some modifications based on the availability of parts.

    Java 1

  3. Email-Management-Web-Application-in-Java Email-Management-Web-Application-in-Java Public

    This is a web application project built using Java Servlets in backend and HTML, CSS and Javascript in front-end. This work has been done collaboratively with my colleagues.

    Java 1 1

  4. PlayREST PlayREST Public

    Forked from ajtechdeveloper/PlayREST

    REST API using Play Framework and Java

    Java 1