Hi, I'm Akshay Bhanderi, a backend-focused SDE with ~4 years of experience building distributed, event-driven systems on AWS. I design scalable architectures, implement serverless solutions, and own products from conception through production. I have solved 900+ LeetCode problems, ranking in the Top 10%.\n\nI'm passionate about mentoring teammates, driving automation, and delivering reliable software at scale. I'm comfortable with system design, CI/CD, and operational excellence to reduce toil and improve reliability.

Akshay Bhanderi

Hi, I'm Akshay Bhanderi, a backend-focused SDE with ~4 years of experience building distributed, event-driven systems on AWS. I design scalable architectures, implement serverless solutions, and own products from conception through production. I have solved 900+ LeetCode problems, ranking in the Top 10%.\n\nI'm passionate about mentoring teammates, driving automation, and delivering reliable software at scale. I'm comfortable with system design, CI/CD, and operational excellence to reduce toil and improve reliability.

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Hi, I’m Akshay Bhanderi, a backend-focused SDE with ~4 years of experience building distributed, event-driven systems on AWS. I design scalable architectures, implement serverless solutions, and own products from conception through production. I have solved 900+ LeetCode problems, ranking in the Top 10%.\n\nI’m passionate about mentoring teammates, driving automation, and delivering reliable software at scale. I’m comfortable with system design, CI/CD, and operational excellence to reduce toil and improve reliability.

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Work Experience

Software Development Engineer 2 at Amazon
April 1, 2025 - Present
Designed and owned an event-driven capacity automation system (EventBridge → Lambda → SQS) for global fleet hardware scaling, orchestrating scale-up/scale-down workflows across 100+ environments with DLQ-backed SQS processing and cross-service integrations.
Software Development Engineer 1 at Amazon
August 1, 2022 - March 1, 2025
Led the Talent Pipeline (ITP) internal candidate management platform; sole owner of the Rule Engine module processing 1.7M+ hiring events with 100% accuracy across 56 job codes and 18 countries. Built real-time data ingestion workflow (SQS + Lambda + Aurora) to process candidate data and status updates at scale.
Software Engineer at Crest Data Systems
December 1, 2021 - August 1, 2022
Built automation test suite (Page Object Model, JUnit, Selenide) for Splunk observability platform; developed a daily JIRA-based working hours tracker computing employee log hours and sending automated breach notifications.

Education

B.Tech in Computer Engineering at Dharamsinh Desai University, Nadiad, Gujarat
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2022

Qualifications

ASR Security Certification for HR data handling
January 11, 2030 - April 30, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Computers & Electronics

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