Aashish Nehete

Platform Engineer III at Akuna Capital

Seattle, Washington, United States

About

I believe an engineer’s job is to build for users today and tomorrow. With technical skill and insight, they create solutions that solve current needs while anticipating the future, making life better through innovation. This is my guiding principle as a software engineer. I have been professionally developing software applications for 4 years now building website frontends, REST APIs, Android apps, cloud infrastructures and even chatbots using LLMs. I have worked with startups in a fast-paced and rapidly evolving job role as well as large enterprises where my project was a cog in the larger wheel. Ultimately, I would say my best skill is the ability to quickly learn new technologies and apply them towards engineering a solution to the current problem.

Experience

  • Akuna Capital (Full-time · 2 yrs 1 mo)
    • Platform Engineer III
      Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr

    • Platform Engineer II
      Jan 2025 - Jul 2025 · 7 mos

    • Platform Engineer
      Jun 2024 - Jan 2025 · 8 mos

  • Software Engineer Intern at Spirent Communications
    Jun 2023 - Jan 2024 · 8 mos

    • Designed ML pipeline to extract structured data from natural language input with 86% accuracy • Developed conversational AI chatbot to support customer service using Llama 2 • Redesigned legacy Windows applications as single page apps in React and Python to modernise user experience for customers which is expected to significantly improve time to market • Engineered network architecture for hosting web applications on remote client machines using Nginx

  • Data Science Intern at UMass Amherst Center for Data Science
    May 2023 - Aug 2023 · 4 mos

    • Analyzed 22 million Slurm jobs at Unity, a High Performance Computing cluster, and designed intuitive dashboards in Tableau increasing user productivity by 100% • Automated resource usage reporting of the cluster to aid administrators in capacity planning using Python and SQL

  • Site Reliability Engineer at One2N
    Sep 2021 - Jul 2022 · 11 mos

    • Improved developer productivity 200x by introducing CI/CD using Jenkins and Terraform to automate the build, test and deployment process. • Reduced mean time to respond to 50% by integrating Grafana and Prometheus to improve observability into infrastructure. • Mentored 3 junior developers on SRE best practices, and designed new tutorials for onboarding.

  • WorkIndia (2 yrs 4 mos)
    • Infrastructure Engineer
      Jul 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

      • Reduced AWS costs by 67% through cost-saving strategies like optimal resource allocation and auto-scaling cluster. • Migrated infrastructure from AWS EC2 to Kubernetes, resulting in 5x faster time to market for new features. • Envisioned and led a new team to improve the scalability and security of the cloud infrastructure. • Engineered an isolated staging environment in Kubernetes that increased developer productivity.

    • Full Stack Developer
      Jun 2019 - Jul 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

      • Increased revenue by 10% by implementing automatic payment renewals using Django and PostgreSQL. • Redesigned a user-friendly job portal in React, increasing user interactions by 45%.