Akhil Selvakumar

Senior Software Engineer (Tech Lead) at WebMD | Ex-Mastercard | India

Akhil Selvakumar is a full-stack engineer with 7+ years of experience building high-performance, scalable platforms across e-commerce, fintech, and health-tech domains. He works across both frontend and backend, with proven experience leading engineering initiatives, improving system architecture, and managing teams to deliver clean, reliable, production-ready software.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer (Technical Lead) – WebMD

Nov 2023 – Present

  • Led a team of engineers to deliver features on doctor.webmd.com
  • Owned SEO, analytics, and cross-team performance efforts
  • Maintained 100% test coverage using Mocha, Chai, and Cypress

Software Engineer II – Mastercard

Jul 2021 – Oct 2023

  • Built APIs and internal tools for Open Banking data
  • Led product pilot launch and automated 75% of QA workflows

Software Engineer – BrandLock

Nov 2018 – Jul 2021

  • Developed a sales prospecting tool from scratch
  • Worked with AWS (S3, Redshift, CloudFront) and automation scripts

Skills

Node.js JavaScript TypeScript Vue.js React.js Next.js Express.js NestJS Postgres MongoDB Redis Cypress Jest Puppeteer CDP HTML/CSS TailwindCSS Vite SOLR Docker Kubernetes AWS GitHub Actions SEO

Contact

You can reach me at ak@akhilselva.com or LinkedIn.