Akshat Jain

About

Passionate and diversified product engineer with 6+ years of experience working in high-growth early-stage startups and making pivotal contributions in architecting and building the product from scratch. I have led multiple teams across various technology stacks building user-centric and highly scalable products. Apart from startups, I had the deep privilege to serve an impactful NGO(Teach for India) thriving to work towards education equity and fortunate to be working with an empathetic team on solving complex social issue using technology.

Experience

• Product Engineer · Diy.org01-01-2021

  - Built Explicit Content Detection API using ML to automate the process of filtering out and flagging off the content from the platform, which resulted in reducing 200+ hours of workload from operations team. - Breaking down the monolithic application and migrating the services to serverless architecture, thereby reducing the cost by 80% and increasing the efficiency by 3x. - Breaking down the Bee-queue service from monolithic application into different micro service using AWS Lambda, SQS and SNS. - Migrating the DB from RDS to Amazon Aurora and implementing the Read-Write split and caching layer, thereby increasing the performance by 3x and reducing the cost by 60%. - Optimising the SQL queries thereby increasing the performance by 5x on the system. - Analysing the cost efficiency of AWS S3 buckets and and implement cost efficient policies and reducing the cost by 5x. - Tech Stack - NodeJS, NestJS, Express, Typescript, Javascript, GraphQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS, AWS Margate, AWS EC2, Docker, Redis, Travis.

• Full Stack Engineer (Contract) · Coding Rooms03-01-2022 – 08-01-2022

  - Designed the frontend architecture and implemented the custom components in the editor. - Designed the architecture and implemented the custom analytics board for the users. - Leveraged the Hasura Graphql interface, thereby eliminating the need to build the backend layer. - Optimised the aggregation interface by building caching layer, thereby increasing the performance by 2x. - Tech Stack - Angular, Web Components, Hasura, GraphQL, Typescript, Javascript, Mongodb, PostgreSQL, Redis, Github Actions

• Integration Engineer (Contract) · Polymer Search09-01-2021 – 02-01-2022

  - Designed the architecture and implemented integration platform for importing of data from various platforms. - Built the uniform layer of SDK to easily build several integrations, thereby reducing the cost to add new integration by 60%. - Implemented microservice architecture using serverless framework to increase the performance by 5x the decreasing the cloud cost 30%. - Added several integrations (MySQL, Google Drive, Facebook Ads, Salesforce, Dropbox, etc) to the platform, thereby increasing the adoption growth rate to 30% MoM. - Implemented scheduling of data import with customised frequency using RabbitMQ and AWS Lambda. - Tech Stack - NodeJS, NestJS, Express, Typescript, Javascript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS Lambda, SNS, SQS, RabbitMQ, Google APIs, Facebook APIs, Salesforce APIs, Dropbox APIs, Github Actions

• Co-founder - CTO · Linckup - Networking platform for 60 Million Businesses09-01-2019 – 01-01-2021

  - Building a verified networking platform for the next 60 Million MSMEs where they can connect and help them to transact effectively. - Selected for the final round of Ycombinator Interview (S20) under Tim Brandy, Kevin Lin and Aaron Epstein. - Responsible for nurturing and shooting the product off to market. Released multiple versions of MVP and built the validation pipeline to perform with more than 10k users using various analytics tool. - Implemented continuous integration on the ionic, thereby reducing the deployment time from 2 weeks to 3 days. - Built custom Ionic native component for adding Truecaller integration on android. - Built Web Scraper for scraping more than 5 million pages from different sources around various ecommerce store. - Implemented Agile in the ecosystem which increased the shipping of the modules by 2x. - Built a highly proactive team of 5-6 people. - Tech stack - Angular, Ionic, Android, Java, Typescript, Express, Web Scraping, Python, MongoDB, Redis, Airtable APIs, Firebase, Socket.io, Github Actions

• Cofounder - Technology Ninja · CareerNinja06-01-2019 – 12-01-2019

  - Worked as a thought partner and responsible for building a prototype for the initial release of the platform. - Designed the overall architecture, infrastructure and streamlined the process of development for the beta release. - Involved in the end-to-end design process of the application including capturing user journeys. - Implemented various analytical tools like Google, HotJar, Facebook Pixels, thereby increasing the efficiency of feedback loop cycle. - Built the team of 10-12 engineering and product folks across different levels. - Tech stack - Angular, Ionic, Android, Express, Javascript, MongoDB, AWS, Firebase, Redis.

• Consultant - Technology · Teach For India06-01-2017 – 06-01-2019

  - Designed a warehouse aggregating org data from various sources such as Salesforce, MongoDB, SQL, Google Sheets and stored in BigQuery. - Automated data cleaning process using DataPrep and Cloud DataFlow reducing ETL process by 80%. - Automating the profile Analysis of 15,000+ applicants and predicting the chances of getting Applicant selected by implementing Prediction Model using Regression and Boosting algorithms - Reducing the time taken for the First Review Round of applicants by 60%. - Sentimental Analysis of 50,000+ Essays using NLP resulted in the automation of scoring essays thereby saving 10k+ hours every year. - Designed and implemented a system for democratising the educational data sets and to develop meaningful insights which help the organisation to take actions. - Designed Interface as a chat-bot for retrieval of data using Natural Language Query and visualisation models for interactive analysis of data. - Identified gaps in the system through Outlier Analysis using Elasticsearch, thereby making the recruiting pipeline efficient by 20%. - Tech Stack - Javascript, React, Express, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, Google BigQuery, Google APIs, MySQL, Python, Flask, Machine Learning Models, Salesforce APIs, NLP, D3.js Docker

• Tech Lead · Mutterfly Technologies Pvt. Ltd.07-01-2017 – 12-01-2018

  - Lead the Technology team of 7 people and took the responsibility of designing and maintaining the stack. - Optimized the stack architecture which was capable of handling 5 million users from 50k users(previous stack) at the same cost and reduced the production cost by 50%. - Successfully executed image recognition models for automating the verification process of users while maintaining the accuracy of 80%. - Designed modular and scalable architecture making the execution 2x faster. - Tech stack - Angular, NodeJS, Javascript, Express, Mongodb, Python, Image recognition libraries, Circle CI, AWS.

Education

• K.J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information TechnologyBachelor of Computer Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science

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