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Akshay Kakoriya

Akshay Kakoriya

Azure Integration & AI Platform Architect

I design API-first, event-driven integration on Azure — and lately, the AI systems that sit on top of it.

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About

I design enterprise integration on Azure — API-first, event-driven systems that connect internal platforms to the outside world without breaking under load. Lately I've been doing the same for AI systems, and most of the hard parts turn out to be the same ones.

Seven years across Accenture, Cognizant, and now Capgemini took me from building interfaces to owning the architecture behind them: requirement analysis, TDA, solution design, and the production behaviour that decides whether a design was actually any good.

Most recently I've architected two agentic AI solutions on Azure AI Foundry — a multi-agent emergency-response platform, and a retrieval-augmented research assistant over a 1.5M-chunk corpus where every answer carries mandatory citations. Both were selected for further development. The parts I'm proudest of aren't the model choice; they're the retrieval topology and the evaluation harness that proved what was actually wrong.

100+
interfaces delivered
500K+
messages per day
~30%
fewer incidents
~15%
lower Azure spend

Experience

  1. 2024 — Present

    Senior Consultant · Capgemini

    Clients: an Australian construction, property and finance group; a UK passenger transport operator.

    • Own end-to-end integration architecture across 50+ interfaces — requirement analysis, TDA, solution design and implementation — for clients in two countries.
    • Architected API-first, event-driven integration on Logic Apps, API Management, Functions, Service Bus and Event Grid handling 500K+ messages per day.
    • Designed for reliability under partial failure: retry policy, dead-letter handling, circuit breaking and idempotent processing.
    • Cut new-interface delivery from ~3 weeks to ~1 week by standardising reusable Logic App, APIM policy and pipeline templates.
    • Architected two agentic AI solutions on Azure AI Foundry — both selected for further development beyond the 2026 hackathon. Mentor four junior developers.
    • Logic Apps
    • API Management
    • Azure Functions
    • Service Bus
    • Event Grid
    • Azure AI Foundry
    • Azure AI Search
    • Bicep
    • Azure DevOps

  2. 2022 — 2024

    Associate — Projects · Cognizant

    Client: a global 4x4 vehicle manufacturer (UK).

    • Took over a struggling integration estate — undocumented interfaces, manual deployments, recurring unexplained failures — and brought it under control.
    • Owned delivery of 30+ Azure integration interfaces from design through production handover.
    • Cut recurring production incidents by ~30% by redesigning retry and dead-letter handling and instrumenting every failure path with proactive alerting.
    • Reduced Azure consumption cost by ~15% through right-sizing, consumption-plan tuning and decommissioning redundant resources.
    • Replaced manual portal deployments with Azure DevOps CI/CD across three environments.
    • Logic Apps
    • Azure Functions
    • Service Bus
    • Key Vault
    • Azure DevOps
    • RBAC

  3. 2019 — 2022

    Application Development Analyst · Accenture

    Client: a US energy utility.

    • Developed and maintained 20+ Azure integration interfaces across a heterogeneous enterprise landscape, progressing from assigned build tasks to owning modules end to end.
    • Integrated SAP, Salesforce/Dynamics, on-premises SQL and Oracle, and legacy mainframe and SOAP services with Azure PaaS.
    • Handled the message-format translation the landscape demanded — XML, flat-file and JSON across systems with incompatible contracts.
    • Supported production deployments on an on-call rotation and wrote the integration runbooks adopted by the support team.
    • Logic Apps
    • Azure Functions
    • On-prem Data Gateway
    • SAP
    • Salesforce
    • SOAP / XML

Writing

Credentials

  • AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect Expert May 2023
  • AZ-204 Azure Developer Associate 2023
  • AZ-104 Azure Administrator Associate Apr 2022
  • PL-900 Power Platform Fundamentals Mar 2022
  • SC-900 Security, Compliance and Identity Fundamentals Jul 2021
  • AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals Dec 2019
  • SFC Scrum Fundamentals Certified May 2021

Honors

  • Capgemini Hackathon 2026

    Two agentic AI solutions architected; both selected for further development.

  • Full-Stack Automation Engineer — Accenture

    Recognised for deployment and CI/CD automation work. Feb 2021.