Akul Gopal
Devali

My main focus was making 15+ microservices more reliable and cost-efficient. I built an internal reliability platform that automated capacity benchmarking and surfaced performance trends before they turned into production incidents. On the cost side, I cut AWS compute spend by 25% — mostly through instance right-sizing and shifting 60% of workloads to spot instances with smart scheduling policies.

I also built a load testing framework with K6 wired directly into the Jenkins CI/CD pipelines as a performance quality gate — if a build failed load tests in staging, it didn't go to production, full stop. That alone cut manual testing effort by 40% and kept regressions from slipping through. To close the loop, I set up a Grafana and Prometheus observability stack that gave the whole team real-time health visibility across every environment.