Akshay Chopra
About Akshay Chopra
Akshay Chopra is a Senior Software Engineer-SRE at Delivery Hero in Dubai, with extensive experience in DevOps and cloud technologies.
Title
Akshay Chopra holds the position of Senior Software Engineer-SRE at Delivery Hero, operating from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Company
Currently employed at Delivery Hero, Akshay Chopra brings his expertise in site reliability engineering (SRE) to this prominent global food delivery service company.
Prior Experience
Before his current role, Akshay Chopra served as Lead DevOps Engineer at Mumzworld.com for four months in 2021-2022. Prior to that, he was a Software Engineer/DevOps Engineer at Majid Al Futtaim from 2020 to 2021. He has also worked extensively with Accenture in India, holding roles such as Associate Application Developer from 2014 to 2015, Application Development Analyst from 2016 to 2017, and Senior Application Development Specialist from 2017 to 2020.
Education and Expertise
Akshay Chopra studied Computer Science at Seth Jai Prakash Mukand Lal Institute of Engineering & Technology (JMIT), earning a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree from 2010 to 2014. He excels in setting up CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform, Pulumi, and Crossplane, and establishing advanced observability stacks.
Specializations and Technical Skills
Akshay Chopra specializes in Kubernetes orchestration platforms like Azure AKS and AWS EKS and is proficient in establishing GitOps practices. He has architected and managed observability stacks, including ELK, New Relic, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and Lightstep. Additionally, he has a proven track record in mentoring teams to optimize DevOps workflows.