Software Engineer ยท Est. 2019
SURYA Kiran Akkinapelli
"It's not who I am underneath, but what I build that defines me." โ€” inspired by the Dark Knight
๐Ÿ’ป Building systems by day ๐Ÿช Baking stories by night ๐Ÿš€ Sci-fi dreamer ๐ŸŒฑ Plant dad โ˜• Coffee addict ๐ŸŽถ All vibes โ˜ ๏ธ One Piece crew forever
6+
Years in the field
60%
Compute cost saved
6k+
Jobs migrated
18
CI/CD repos owned
01
About me
The Engineer
"I have no superpower. No shortcuts. No legacy systems I won't touch. Just preparation, systems thinking, and the willingness to stay up until the on-call incident is resolved โ€” because someone has to."
โ€” Surya's Batman principle

Software Engineer with 6+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems. I specialize in Go-based backend services, Kubernetes infrastructure, and cloud-native platforms โ€” with a relentless focus on reliability, observability, and zero-downtime migrations.

Like Batman, I don't rely on luck. I prepare. I've migrated thousands of production jobs, designed L7 routing for live systems, and automated CI/CD across 18 repos โ€” usually without waking up the on-call rotation. The best outages are the ones that never happen.

Currently an SWE 2 at The Home Depot holding an M.S. in Data Science from Georgia State. When I'm not in the terminal, I'm somewhere between a sci-fi novel, a sourdough experiment, and my plant shelf.

๐Ÿš€
Sci-fi Universe
Foundation, Dune, anything space
โ˜ ๏ธ
One Piece
Nakama > everything
๐ŸŒฑ
Plant Dad
Debugging roots, not just code
๐Ÿช
Baking
Recipes are just algorithms
โ˜•
Coffee
Fuel for distributed systems
๐ŸŽถ
Music
All vibes, no rules
surya@gotham:~$ whoami
SWE2, GSU grad, One Piece enjoyer
surya@gotham:~$ cat values.txt
โ†’ Reliability over cleverness
โ†’ Boring infra = good infra
โ†’ Nakama don't get paged at 3am
โ†’ The Will of D: Ship it.
surya@gotham:~$ uptime
6 years, 3 companies, 0 cold cases
surya@gotham:~$
Quick file
LocationAtlanta, GA
RoleSWE 2 @ The Home Depot
EducationM.S. Data Science, GSU
Spirit animal๐Ÿฆ‡ Batman
Crew shipโ˜ ๏ธ Thousand Sunny
02
Experience
The Log Pose
Jun 2024 โ€” Present
~1 yr 11 mo
The Home Depot
Software Engineer 2
Atlanta, GA ยท Full-time
  • Built a Go-based batch processing framework with API endpoints for job orchestration โ€” reduced compute costs by 60% at large-scale workloads.
  • Designed L7 traffic routing service to migrate production workloads from legacy Java to Go with zero downtime.
  • Developed migration converter tool transitioning 6,000+ jobs from a retired framework to Jenkins pipelines.
  • Deployed and operated containerized services on Kubernetes โ€” owned ingress, IP management, service lifecycle.
  • Built and maintained GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows across 18 repositories.
  • Owned operational excellence: cert renewals, service account key rotations, on-call incident triage.
GoKubernetesGCPJenkinsGitHub ActionsL7 Routing
Aug 2022 โ€” Jun 2024
~1 yr 11 mo
The Home Depot
Data Analyst
Atlanta, GA ยท Full-time
  • Built and owned end-to-end data pipelines and campaign workflows for digital media initiatives.
  • Improved execution efficiency by 15% and reduced operational errors by 20%.
PythonSQLApache AirflowData Pipelines
Jan 2022 โ€” Apr 2022
Georgia State
Data Engineer Intern
Atlanta, GA
  • Big Data management of DOL/WHD data using scraping (BeautifulSoup, Selenium) and APIs.
  • Converted non-relational text files into structured SQL relational models.
PythonSQLBeautifulSoupSelenium
Aug 2021 โ€” Dec 2021
Starr Insurance
Data Engineer Intern
Atlanta, GA
  • Built client attractiveness scoring model using SQL and Random Forest (74%/68% accuracy).
  • Improved sales expectation by 10% through better underwriter targeting.
PythonSQLRandom ForestML
Apr 2019 โ€” Jun 2021
~2 yr 3 mo
Zenoti
Software Engineer
Hyderabad, India
  • Designed scalable data migration pipelines for enterprise client onboarding.
  • Built one-click automation tool reducing Go-Live effort by 30%.
  • Optimized queries improving import/export performance by 20โ€“25%.
  • Developed 30+ features; migrated legacy codebase with 400 unit tests.
  • Reduced storage costs 35%, improved retrieval speed 20%.
C#.NETSQLAPIsCloud Storage
Jan 2019 โ€” Mar 2019
Zenoti
Software Engineer Intern
Hyderabad, India
  • Fixed customer escalations and improved feature quality by 20%.
  • Developed APIs covering DB design, API layer, and frontend integration.
APIsDB DesignFrontend
Education
Aug 2021 โ€” Dec 2022
GSU
M.S. Data Science & Analytics
Georgia State University ยท Atlanta, GA
Aug 2015 โ€” May 2019
SNIST
B.Tech, Information Technology
Sreenidhi Institute of Science & Technology ยท Hyderabad
03
Projects
The Arsenal
001
Go Batch Processing Framework

API-driven job orchestration for large-scale workloads. Slashed compute costs by 60% through intelligent scheduling and resource control at The Home Depot.

GoGCPKubernetesREST API
002
L7 Traffic Routing Service

Zero-downtime migration routing live traffic from legacy Java to Go. Real systems, real stakes โ€” no sleep lost.

GoL7KubernetesIngress
003
Speech Detection & Handwriting Replication

Patented system combining audio processing with generative handwriting output. Where sound meets ink.

PatentNLPCV
004
Jenkins Migration Converter

Automated tool converting 6,000+ legacy jobs to standardized Jenkins CI pipelines across multiple teams and repos.

JenkinsCI/CDGitHub ActionsGo
005
Client Attractiveness Recommender

ML recommendation engine for insurance underwriters. 74% analytical accuracy, 68% RF accuracy โ€” +10% sales expectation.

PythonRandom ForestSQL
006
Enterprise Onboarding Automation

One-click Go-Live tool at Zenoti integrating internal APIs and cloud storage. Cut onboarding effort 30%, storage costs 35%.

C#.NETAPIsCloud
04
Skills
The Utility Belt
Languages
Go
92%
Python
88%
TypeScript
75%
Java
70%
C# / .NET
78%
SQL
90%
Data & ML
Apache Airflow
85%
scikit-learn
78%
Pandas
83%
PostgreSQL
87%
Infrastructure & Cloud
Kubernetes
90%
Docker
92%
GCP
85%
GitHub Actions
93%
Jenkins
88%
Observability
Prometheus
80%
Grafana
80%
Incident Triage
95%
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Rising Star Award
The Home Depot
๐Ÿ†
Special Recognition
Code to Give ยท Morgan Stanley
๐Ÿ“œ
Apache Airflow 3 Certified
Astronomer ยท 2024
๐Ÿ”ฌ
Patent Filed
Speech Detection & Handwriting Replication
05
Hackathons
The Grand Line
#EventResult
01
Code to Give โ€” Morgan Stanley
Social impact tech challenge ยท Special Recognition Award
Special Recognition
02
Data Science Hackathon
Competitive data science challenge ยท 4th place finish
4th Place
03
ACM ICPC
International Collegiate Programming Contest
ICPC Qualifier
06
Contact
The Bat-Signal
Light the signal.

Open to senior backend, infrastructure, and platform engineering roles. If you're building something that demands reliability and someone who treats on-call as a personal challenge โ€” let's talk.

Send a message โ†—
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