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Akshay Soni
Director-level Engineering Manager specializing in platform engineering, CI/CD, and developer productivity
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Senior Engineering Manager with a player-coach style who stays technically engaged through heavy code reviews and pair programming. Led prioritization and stakeholder alignment for a scalable, resilient feature-flag evaluation service with strict sub-50ms latency goals, including a major caching-strategy redesign and incremental rollout approach. Experienced in incident response/retrospectives and in coaching engineers toward improved performance and promotions.
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Key Strengths
- Technical leadership via RFCs and stakeholder alignment (GTL/architect + broad feedback)
- Prioritizes performance-critical requirements (sub-50ms latency) and drives tech-stack focus
- Strong code-review and player-coach practices (pair programming, low-risk PRs)
- Pragmatic reliability improvements post-incident (test coverage, canary soak, HPA scaling)
- Delivers incremental platform modernization (carving feature-flag capability out of monolith into a standalone service)
- People management focused on psychological safety, coaching, and promotion-oriented career development
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