Wasim Mustafa Akhtar

Overview

I've spent 13 years on API platforms - first at Postman, now at Brook Commerce. Built the experimentation framework 13 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Razorpay and Wipro. Most at home with rate limiting and Redis.

Best reached early in the week

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Nov 2024 - Present
   Brook Commerce · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Indore, India
   • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 23 a week to 4.
   • Grew the public API team from 4 to 27 engineers.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 34 minutes to under 4.
2. Engineering Manager

   Sep 2022 - Nov 2024
   Razorpay · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Indore, India
   • Moved 64% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Staff Backend Engineer

   Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
   Wipro · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Indore, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 24 minutes to under 4.
   • Led the migration of 58 services to rate limiting.
4. Backend Engineer

   Nov 2017 - Sep 2020
   SAP · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Indore, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 21 minutes to under 3.
   • Wrote the rate limiting service that now handles 75 million requests a day.
5. Backend Engineer

   Jul 2014 - Nov 2017
   Postman · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Indore, India
   • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 37 a week to 2.

Projects

No references yet.

Education

1. FMS Delhi

   MBA, Business Administration
   2016 - 2018
2. IIT Kanpur

   B.Tech, Mathematics
   2008 - 2012