BIO
Personal Profile
Ankit Agrahari is a father of 2 boys and (in whatever time is left) also a seasoned Backend Development Lead with over 12 years of experience architecting and delivering scalable Java-based systems. His expertise spans Java, Spring Boot, RESTful services, Microservices architecture, Kafka, Kubernetes, and DevOps tooling, with a strong focus on system design, performance, and production stability.
He is passionate about building systems that are not just functional, but resilient under real-world scale and failure scenarios. On this blog, he documents practical backend insights, design trade-offs, recurring production issues, and their solutions.
You can explore his experimental and production-oriented code repositories on GitHub:
👉 https://github.com/ankitagrahari
He shares backend system breakdowns on Instagram at:
👉 https://www.instagram.com/backendbrilliance/
And publishes technical writing on Medium:
👉 https://medium.com/@ankitagrahari.rkgit
Outside of engineering, he enjoys reading, traveling, cycling, and capturing life’s moments.
Experience
09/2023 - present
Microfocus
02/2017 - 06/2018
Deloitte
11/2012 - 02/2017
Zyme Solutions
07/2018 - 09/2023
EPAM
I confidently lead a team of 12 exceptional colleagues, committed to delivering highly scalable enterprise solutions to our clients. With expertise in the insurance domain, I excel in working with EIS v20 in a dynamic, fast-paced production environment.
I have worked on multiple automation projects in Microfocus with the following tech stack:
Java, Spring boot, Python, Rest, Kubernetes, Maven, Git, Vertica.
I have worked on multiple projects like SPS, Semoss, Sale Analysis from Healthcare and Sales industry. I was working on following tech stack:
Java, Spring boot, Maven, Git, BitBucket.
I started my career from Zyme and was working on channel data management product called Truepay. I was working on following tech stack:
Java, Spring, Ibatis, Rest, Soap, Python, Liferay.
