Akash Joshi

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Manchester, England, United Kingdom7 yrs 3 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Reduced deployment time by 90% with automation.
Handled 150,000 support tickets daily at Meta.
Built scalable applications for diverse clients.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Full-Stack Engineer with expertise in automation and scalable web applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

Api DevelopmentPythonGraphqlAutomationWeb DevelopmentReactFull-stack Development

Other Skills

AWS LambdaAmazon DynamodbAmazon Web Services (AWS)Back-End Web DevelopmentC (Programming Language)C#C++CRM DevelopmentCloud-Native ApplicationsCryptocurrencyCyber-securityData ParsingData StructuresDocker ProductsFire Management

About

As a Software Engineer, I apply my expertise in React, TypeScript, and Python to build high-performance and scalable web applications. Recently, we sped up deployments by 90% and introduced automated testing for a client. Previously I worked at Meta, where I was part of the WhatsApp Support Engineering team, where we built systems that handled over 150,000 support tickets daily from 2.6 billion users worldwide, using a sophisticated automation engine. I have been running my own agency, The Writing Dev, since 2020, where I offer web development, content creation, and consulting services to a variety of clients. Previously I built a viral meme for Pewdiepie. I am also an international conference speaker, a React expert, and an active contributor to open source projects, with over 100 repositories on GitHub. I am passionate about software engineering and I organize meetups in London and Pune to share my knowledge and learn from others.

Experience

7 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 8 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Deepl

Senior Software Engineer - API Engineering

May 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · London Area, United Kingdom

Built the Voice API - allowing real-time speech-to-speech and speech-to-text conversations for our users.
Responsible for the core public APIs, serving 6M monthly requests.
Worked on an API and UI migration for the browser extension, which serves 2M Daily Active Users.
Integrated observability into the stack using Grafana and Sentry, allowing us to catch bugs early.

API DevelopmentPythonGrafanaSentry

Rocket connect

Senior Fullstack Engineer

Apr 2023 – May 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

Working full-time on open source, helping maintain GraphQL AI - our AI based graph query solution and GraphQL Debugger - a monitoring tool using open-telemetry data to help debug your GraphQL servers live.
Helped set up CityJS London, Devtools Pune, and other GraphQL conferences on https://graphql-events.org/.

GraphQLOpen SourceMonitoring Tools

The writing dev

Founder, CEO & Principal Engineer

Apr 2020 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

HASH.ai: Key Contributor to HASH and Block Protocol, resolving tooling and data parsing.
Lead migration, architecture and development of 500+ pages from Wordpress to MDX and NextJS.
Delight.Chat: Built scalable and highly interactive UIs from scratch, building an MVP in 3 months.
Took ownership of frontend stack, sprints, development and deployments to AWS.
Worked with tech companies in London to deliver quality software solutions using React, TypeScript and Python. Was responsible for frontend stack and ensuring sprints ran smoothly.

ReactTypeScriptPythonWeb Development

Gigindia

Senior Fullstack Engineer

Dec 2018 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Founding engineer at GigIndia - PhonePe. Did a lot of collaborative projects with other teams throughout 2019-2020. Helped scale the team to 5 developers.
Made complex UIs simple by driving UIs through JSON. I've written about JSON driven UIs in LinkedIn posts before.
GigIndia is on a mission to provide meaningful employment opportunities to 100m+ job seekers in India through gigs (remote flexible jobs). GigIndia empowers enterprises to scale rapidly with on-demand certified 1,000,000+ gig workforce across 200+ cities in India. GigIndia’s AI/ML technology platform automates the process of recruiting, training and managing the workforce. We are the go-to platform for enterprises having completed 35million+ gigs with us in 3.5 year since inception.
We were YourStory’s TECH30 2019 startups. GigIndia has raised over ₹9 Cr from leading VCs and marquee angels like S Ramadorai (Ex-CEO, TCS) & Kiran Deshpande (Ex-CEO, Tech Mahindra.
By this time our apps were getting 1000s of daily users with 10,000s of entries and our ML servers were processing data which were several multiples of that (30-40k media files) in a week.
Introduced React and Python tech stack. Built latest version of website and app from scratch in React.
Built tools to automate repetitive Ops work, which directly resulted in 300% year-on-year growth and helped the organization scale faster and more efficiently.
Built an automated quality check engine using Python and image recognition.
Built a telecalling/lead qualifying CRM from scratch, which scaled to 10,000 concurrent users.
Introduced CI/CD, linting and testing of code to ensure robust, automated deployments.
Lead a lean and efficient tech team, scaling it from 1 to 5 engineers.