Ashwin Kothawade

Software Engineer at Akatsuki AI Technologies

Handle

@ashwin-nsb6

Role

Software Engineer

Company

Akatsuki AI Technologies

Location

Pune

About

I build AI platforms, full-stack SaaS products, and cloud infrastructure. I work across backend systems, web applications, machine learning integrations, and production deployment.

Experience

• Software Engineer at Akatsuki AI Technologies
  Jun 2026 to now - Remote / Tokyo, Japan
  Owned a multi-tenant Slack translation SaaS end-to-end, including Slack OAuth, Stripe billing with usage metering and hard caps, an admin console, and a daily cost-guard cron. Drove the AI motorcycle appraisal platform to production with Google Workspace SSO and a flyer proofing module rendering print-ready 30-vehicle PDF flyers.
• Software Engineering Intern at Akatsuki AI Technologies
  Oct 2025 to May 2026 - Remote / Tokyo, Japan
  Led cloud infrastructure with 2, 400+ lines of Terraform across multi-environment GCP, Workload Identity Federation CI/CD, and multi-region Gemini failover. Built the Red Baron platform from first commit with FastAPI, Next.js, RBAC, Vertex AI Gemini, Docker, GitHub Actions, and Cloud Build.
• Backend Engineering Intern at Smallcase
  Nov 2025 to Mar 2026 - Remote
  Re-architected bank verification into a two-stage API with abuse guards that closed an unbounded paid-API cost leak and blocked payouts to invalid accounts. Cut MongoDB read load with a Redis caching layer and reduced breach and mispricing risk via field-level PII encryption and agreement-driven interest rates.
• Software Engineering Intern (Full Stack) at Mobile Premier League (MPL)
  Jun 2025 to Jul 2025 - Pune, India
  Built 11+ React pages backed by Spring Boot REST APIs and gRPC inter-service communication using Kafka and Apache Camel for a Data Engineering Platform, automating manual cross-team processes and accelerating feature delivery.

Education

• Indian Institute of Information Technology, Jabalpur
  Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering
  2022 to 2026
  CPI: 8.8

Skills

• Python
• Go
• TypeScript
• Next.js
• Express.js
• FastAPI
• React
• Google Gemini
• Vertex AI
• Terraform
• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB

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