Akshay Ghuge
Arlington,Tx
Summary
Senior IT Engineer with 14+ years of experience in designing, deploying, and
maintaining enterprise-grade infrastructure and cloud-native applications. Proven
leader in technical strategy, system architecture, and DevOps automation. Extensive
experience with Azure and IBM Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and
application monitoring tools like Dynatrace and Mezmo. Skilled in event streaming
and messaging technologies including Kafka and RabbitMQ. Adept at handling
multi-cloud environments and implementing secure, scalable solutions. Experienced
in leveraging Akamai for content delivery and security optimization. Committed to
driving innovation, ensuring compliance, and collaborating across cross-functional
teams to deliver reliable and efficient IT solutions.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Tech Lead – Sabre Print Emulator (SPE)
American Airlines
08.2025 - Current
- Leading modernization of SPE, a critical application for printing boarding passes, bag tags, flight manifests, ancillary purchase receipts, and hotel/meal vouchers.
- Responsible for rearchitecting the solution from legacy .NET to Java-based microservices.
- Driving migration of backend architecture to modern frameworks and improving scalability and maintainability.
- Implementing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions for automated deployments.
- Leveraging Azure Cloud for hosting microservices and ensuring high availability and security.
- Integrated Akamai for secure content delivery and optimized performance across distributed environments.
- Overseeing client application enhancements for airport agent machines and backend services for generating and transmitting print data.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and compliance with airline operational standards.
- Applying infrastructure best practices and monitoring solutions for reliability and performance.
Tech Lead – FLIFO - Flight Status
American Airlines
01.2025 - 08.2025
- Architected and designed APIs to migrate legacy systems to cloud-native microservices.
- Led infrastructure upgrades and lifecycle management for IBM Cloud-hosted services.
- Spearheaded migration using Docker containers and Kubernetes orchestration.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, reducing deployment time by 40%.
- Applied security and vulnerability scans during development phase.
- Maintained infrastructure updates and upgrades for application services.
- Used Dynatrace, Mezmo, Splunk, and AIOPS for production monitoring and automated support.
- Integrated event streaming and messaging solutions using Kafka and RabbitMQ for real-time data processing.
- Incorporated Akamai for secure and optimized API traffic management.
- Managed disaster recovery planning and documentation.
- Provided training and mentorship to team members on tools and processes.
- Actively contributed to AA initiatives including ReadyToFly, CloudMigration, and Carrier connect, Customer Seamless Experience.
Sr Software Engineer
Zenith Infotek
Lewisville, TX
01.2020 - 07.2022
- Led software development projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical specifications.
- Mentored junior engineers, fostering skill development and promoting best practices in coding standards.
- Designed and implemented scalable software solutions, enhancing system performance and user experience.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define project requirements and deliver innovative features.
- Led design and implementation of scalable architecture solutions to enhance system performance.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and project specifications.
- Mentored junior architects on best practices in software development and architectural frameworks.
- Conducted architectural reviews to ensure compliance with organizational standards and quality assurance processes.
- Developed proof-of-concept prototypes to demonstrate feasibility of new technologies and architectures.
- Streamlined deployment processes through automation, reducing time-to-market for new features and updates.
- Provided technical leadership to team members during system design.
- Contributed innovative ideas during brainstorming sessions that led to the successful execution of key initiatives.
- Collaborated with clients to determine project specifications and scope.
- Enhanced user experiences by incorporating responsive design elements into web applications.
- Delivered high-quality solutions within tight deadlines while adhering to budget constraints.
- Championed knowledge sharing within the team through regular presentations and workshops on emerging technologies, trends, and best practices.
- Spearheaded the adoption of cloud-based technologies, enabling faster deployment and scalability for various applications.
Sr. Software Engineer
Tech Mahindra
Plano, TX
07.2011 - 01.2020
- Primary role as Java Dev lead, leading Team of 8.
- Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces.
- Developed robust, scalable, modular and API-centric infrastructures.
- Understand new concepts and try to apply to an existing framework with new architecture and design with the best solution.
- Majorly part of converting requirements into its working application, develop, design and deployment till Stage.
- Designed and implemented scalable applications for data extraction and analysis.
- Analyzed work to generate logic for new systems, procedures and tests.
- Developed next generation integration platform for internal applications.
- Managed escalated customer orders in a timely and professional manner.
- Involved in the development of microServices using Java-8, Spring Boot, RESTful Web Services, JDBC, JUnits, Sonar Qube and deployment using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes and React JS for UI components using NodeJS Framework.
- Used the following databases Oracle SQL and Cassandra, and used the Spring JDBC framework for configuration along with HikariCP for the connection pool.
- Used RxJava for concurrency and HazelCast for caching frameworks to improve the performance of systems.
- Strong knowledge of test Driven development and use of Junit and Mockito.
- Used databases like Oracle SQL and Cassandra, and used the Sprint framework for configuration along with HikariCP for the connection pool.
- Strong knowledge of test Driven development and use of Junit and Mockito and Sonar Qube for code quality.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree - Electronics Engineering
Mumbai University
Mumbai07-2011
Skills
- Scalable system design
- Enterprise architecture design
- Technical design documentation
- Technical Team leadership
- Systems configuration and Automation
- Performance improvements
- Technical consulting
- DevOps principles
- Security best practices
- Cross-platform development
- Infrastructure automation
- Cloud infrastructure design
Websites
Timeline
Tech Lead – Sabre Print Emulator (SPE)
American Airlines
08.2025 - Current
Tech Lead – FLIFO - Flight Status
American Airlines
01.2025 - 08.2025
Sr Software Engineer
Zenith Infotek
01.2020 - 07.2022
Sr. Software Engineer
Tech Mahindra
07.2011 - 01.2020
Bachelor’s Degree - Electronics Engineering
Mumbai University