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Akash Agarwal

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 6 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led the development of a global crypto exchange platform.
  • Designed and built an entire Ed-tech stack from scratch.
  • Successfully raised $2 million in VC funding.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and EdTech expert with strong backend and infrastructure skills.

Contact

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Skills

Core Skills

Apache KafkaAmazon Web Services (aws)Back-end Web DevelopmentMobile Application Development

Other Skills

AkkaDatabase DesignDatadogGo (Programming Language)HarnessJavaJavaScriptJenkinsK8sKubernetesMobile ApplicationsMongoDBNode.jsPostgreSQLReact Native

About

On a journey from nobody to somebody, from expendable to indispensable, from mediocre to maestro.

Experience

Zepto

Staff Software Engineer

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru South, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Trying to scale Zepto to even greater heights while keeping costs in check!

Gemini

Staff Software Engineer

Sep 2023 – Aug 2024 · 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

  • Building a global crytpo exchange platform
  • Part of payments team
  • To scale, maintain and upgrade the global payments infra serving millions of customers accross US, UK, Europe, Singapore
  • Reconciliation, Dispute management, Report generation, Scalable job schedular to pull reports from multiple banks at regular intervals, Making payments compliant
  • Integration with new banks and payments providers (JPM, BCB, LHV, Xfers, DCB, Plaid, Worldpay)
  • Migrating 7 services from monolith to microservices, documenting the migration path, Database migration of TBs of data from on-prem to aurora.
  • Led operational excellency by focusing on Observability efforts.
Apache KafkaAmazon Web Services (AWS)PostgreSQLDatadogAkkaScala+9

Functionup

Founding Engineer / AVP Engineering

Sep 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Pivoted from Fanplay.
  • Acquired by Classplus.
  • Raised around 2 million in VC funding
  • Scaled the tech team to 10 people and whole company to 80 people.
  • We were doing 1 million ARR at peak.
  • Designed and built the whole Ed-tech stack from scratch

Fanplay technologies

Founding Engineer / Core team member

Apr 2021 – Sep 2021 · 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Pivoted to FunctionUp
  • YC backed
  • A real money gaming with live streaming product
Back-End Web DevelopmentMobile Application DevelopmentNode.jsWebrtcWebSocket

Airblack

Core team member

Nov 2020 – Apr 2021 · 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Stanza living

Software Engineer

Jun 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Delhi, India

Crush campaigns

Core team member

Nov 2017 – May 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Bachelor's degree — Engineering Physics

Jan 2009 – Jan 2013

Y Combinator

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

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