Specialist in Cloud-Native Distributed Computing and Resilience Engineering

Akshay Pratinav is a Staff Software engineer with deep expertise in Cloud-Native Distributed Computing and Resilience Engineering. His career spans critical roles building internal developer productivity tools, where he has consistently delivered impactful, high-performance solutions.
At Intuit, he led the development of an internal Disaster Recovery platform that is not just crucial, but a non-negotiable imperative for maintaining business continuity and customer trust. He also played a crucial role in the ITSM initiative, which automates and streamlines incident management, by drastically reducing the Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR) for major incidents. Furthermore, Akshay was instrumental in the design and development of the Policy Enforcement platform, providing a sophisticated, unified, and consistent experience for authoring, deploying, and enforcing policies across diverse cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure, ensuring embedded security, compliance, and operational efficiency.
While at Adobe, he significantly contributed to the Ethos platform, a cloud-native and cloud-agnostic solution that streamlines the development, operation, and consumption of cloud services inside Adobe. This included work on the Kubernetes Director, which serves as the core component of the Ethos platform responsible for managing the deployment of container based workload on Kubernetes clusters. He also led the effort of bringing gateway features to the edge within the cluster to optimize service-to-service communication. He also contributed to the Blessed Base Container initiative for secure and standardized Docker base images.
For his achievements, Akshay received several awards, including multiple Intuit DevX Excellence award, Intuit Spotlight recognition and Adobe Bravo award. These accolades highlight his innovative thinking, design excellence, and strong technical leadership.