Akhil Karattu meethal

Job Duties

• Designed and implemented large scale enterprise software projects supporting over 65 countries.
• Mentored junior engineers, fostering skill development and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Designed and implemented scalable software solutions to improve system performance and reliability.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define project requirements and deliver effective solutions.
• Conducted code reviews, enhancing code quality and promoting peer accountability in development processes.
• Streamlined deployment processes using CI/CD tools for faster software releases and reduced downtime.

• Played a key role in architecting and developing Cisco Webex’s online e-commerce platform from scratch, delivering a highly scalable, secure, and performant solution using React for the front end and Node.js microservices for the backend.
• Designed, developed, and led a team to build multiple distributed queue-based backend systems using AWS SQS and Apache Kafka, enabling reliable processing of new orders, failed transactions, fraud detection, approvals, and retry workflows at scale.
• Designed and implemented backend systems for in-app purchase processing, supporting seamless subscription upgrades, renewals, and billing workflows across multiple platforms.
• Successfully expanded the Webex e-commerce platform from the U.S. to 65+ countries, addressing challenges related to localization, taxation, compliance, payment methods, and regional regulations.
• Architected a multi-payment and multi-Merchant-of-Record (MoR) ecosystem for Webex subscription management, integrating leading payment and billing platforms such as Stripe, Zuora, and Digital River, ensuring flexibility, redundancy, and global scalability.
• Designed and built an Nx monorepo architecture supporting multiple Node.js microservices, React applications, and shared component libraries, improving code reuse, build performance, and developer productivity.
• Developed CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment of React component libraries and micro-frontends, enabling rapid, reliable releases using micro-frontend architecture.
• Built a Generative UI framework for runtime user interface generation using modern AI technologies as part of the Cisco AI Canvas, enabling dynamic and intelligent UI composition.
• Ensured enterprise-grade security best practices across applications, including secure payment handling, access controls, data protection, and compliance with industry standards.
• Diagnosed and resolved multiple high-severity production incidents, improving system stability, reliability, and customer experience.
• Designed and implemented observability solutions for application logs, metrics, and analytics, enabling real-time monitoring, faster debugging, and data-driven decision-making.