Hi, I'm Akdas Ahmad

Software engineer building high-reliability backend systems for finance and distributed platforms.

SDE II @ Kotak Mahindra Bank
Working on treasury & forex platforms

I currently work as an SDE II at Kotak Mahindra Bank, building treasury and forex systems for pricing, compliance, and trade workflows. Before that, I built internal delivery tools at Amazon and worked on low-level validation tooling during my Samsung internship. My focus is clean APIs, useful logs, strong deployment hygiene, and systems that stay stable under pressure.

I design systems that handle scale, latency, and real-world financial constraints.

Experience

Kotak Mahindra Bank

Apr 2025 - Present | Gurgaon

Software Development Engineer II · KDAC Treasury

  • Built a config service using caching and Redis write-behind to reduce latency and improve consistency.
  • Implemented correlation-id logging across microservices to speed up incident debugging.
  • Built RBI-compliant pricing workflows for remittance and travel card products.
  • Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Docker, Azure DevOps, Django

Kotak Mahindra Bank

Jul 2023 - Mar 2025 | Gurgaon

Software Development Engineer I · KDAC Treasury

  • Shipped regulatory reporting workflows and reduced manual RBI submission effort by 40%.
  • Built core modules and integrations for the in-house KDAC treasury platform.
  • Integrated core banking APIs and upstream systems for trade metrics and limits calculation.
  • Owned deployments across DEV, UAT and PROD pipelines.

Amazon

Jul 2022 - Apr 2023 | Gurgaon

Software Development Engineer I · Last Mile Delivery Tech

  • Built package unassignment and status override capabilities in Mission Control.
  • Integrated features in React + TypeScript workflows for delivery station operations.
  • Reduced Lambda cold starts by ~50% with Provisioned Concurrency.
  • Handled high-severity incidents as part of on-call.

Samsung

Feb 2022 - Jun 2022 | Noida

Software Development Engineer Intern

  • Worked on vibration and USB module validation.
  • Ran sanity and stability testing on updated binaries for mobile and tablet devices.

Projects

KDAC Treasury Platform

End-to-end treasury workflow platform for forex and compliance operations. Designed and shipped reporting, policy, integration, and deployment paths.

Config Service for Forex Products

Low-latency configuration service with Redis write-behind and cache-first reads for consistent runtime behavior in pricing systems.

Stock Platform (Personal)

Kafka-based learning project for market-data ingestion and price processing with microservices and event streaming.

Education

Jamia Millia Islamia

2018 - 2022 | New Delhi

B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering

CGPA: 8.95

Highlights

  • Kotak Quarterly Award
  • Certificate of Recognition (Kotak)
  • CodeChef 4-star (max 1855)
  • Google Hash Code 2020

Hobbies

Beyond Work

  • Problem solving and competitive programming.
  • Reading about distributed systems and backend architecture.
  • Building side projects to test ideas quickly.
  • Writing notes after debugging difficult production issues.

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