Chaitanya Akula
Principal Software Engineer · Ayoconnect
Summary
Software engineer with 7+ years of experience designing and building scalable payment systems and distributed backend applications. Skilled in Golang, system design, event-driven architecture, microservices, GCP, and leveraging AI to improve engineering productivity.
Experience
Principal Software Engineer · Ayoconnect
January 2026 – Present
- Led the migration of the API Gateway from Google Apigee to Kong, improving platform flexibility and reducing vendor dependency.
- Designed and built an in-house Fraud Detection System to improve transaction security and risk management.
- Leading the design and development of a scalable Pricing Engine supporting evolving business requirements.
- Driving architecture decisions and technical design across the platform.
Software Engineer IV / Tech Lead · Ayoconnect
June 2024 – January 2026
- Developed and launched multiple insight products including Identity Verification, Telco Active Check, Telco Identity Check, and PLN Platform Check.
- Designed and built the Instant Transfer product from the ground up, enabling fund transfers across 130+ banks in Indonesia, engineered to scale to 10,000+ TPS.
- Architected and developed the Bulk Transfer product.
- Designed and implemented a Recurring Payments system from scratch and led development of its next version.
Software Engineer III / Team Lead · Ayoconnect
January 2022 – August 2024
- Created and managed reverse proxies using Apigee for products developed by the team.
- Led DevOps and infrastructure initiatives for the department.
- Oversaw deployment pipelines, automation, monitoring, high availability, and scalability.
- Created and maintained API documentation using Swagger.
Software Engineer II · Ayoconnect
May 2021 – December 2021
- API design and development.
- Database design and implementation.
- Backend engineering.
Software Engineer · Gitty Inc.
April 2019 – May 2021
- Integrated front-end applications with server-side logic.
- Built reusable code and libraries and optimized applications for speed and scalability.
- Implemented security and data protection, and designed data storage solutions.
- Integrated multiple data sources and databases, and managed hosting environments.
Skills
Golang · Distributed Systems · System Design · Microservices · Event-Driven Architecture · Payment Systems · GCP · DevOps · Redis · PostgreSQL · REST APIs · API Gateway · Kubernetes · Cloud-Native Architecture
Education
Bapatla Engineering College
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science
2013 – 2017
Languages
- English — Full Professional
- Telugu — Native