Kumar Akshay

Senior Software Engineer

Bellevue, Washington, United States6 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

6+ years of experience in scalable backend systems.
Active contributor to open-source projects.
Mentored in Google Summer of Code.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with strong open-source contributions.

Contact

k.akshay9721@gmail.com +918120905229 LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Back-end Web DevelopmentMicroservicesSystem Performance

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)CC (Programming Language)C++Cloud ComputingData StructuresDistributed SystemsDjangoFull-Stack DevelopmentGitGo (Programming Language)Google Cloud PlatformJavaLinux

About

Software engineer with 6+ year of experience in developing scalable backend systems. Graduated in 2019 with Bachelor in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. Passionate about open-source. Google Summer of Code 18 participant and mentor in GSoC 2019 for Plone Foundation. Contributed to CockroachDB, CPython, Plone Foundation. Github: https://github.com/kakshay21

Experience

6 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Atlassian

4 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2025 – Present · 6 mos · Remote

Confluence Integration Team

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2024 – Nov 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Remote

Jira Issue Domain

Software Development Engineer II

Apr 2022 – Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Remote

Jira Platform

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · Remote

Jira Platform

Back-End Web DevelopmentMicroservicesSystem PerformanceFull-Stack DevelopmentDistributed SystemsSoftware Development

Hackerrank

Software Development Engineer - 1

Jun 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Back-End Web DevelopmentMicroservicesSystem Performance

Python software foundation

Google Summer of Code Mentor

May 2019 – Aug 2019 · 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

System Performance

Hackerrank

Software Development Engineer - Intern

Dec 2018 – Feb 2019 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

System Performance

Plone foundation

Google Summer of Code participants

May 2018 – Aug 2018 · 3 mos

System Performance

Healthifyme

Software Engineer Intern

Dec 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 mo · Bangalore

Django: Reduced sales team friction by implementing a dashboard with logging functionality to send invoice emails and users related work.
Email Validator: Improved email validator accuracy and reduced time by 83% from the previous version by updating dependent libraries, adding multi-thread support, and caching DNS lookup results.
ETL Service: Implemented two versions of ETL service to make complex SQL query possible for Data Science team by migrating it to Google BigQuery

Zoodify labs pvt. ltd

Software Engineer Intern

Jun 2017 – Jul 2017 · 1 mo · Bangalore

Firebase: Implemented Progressive Web App in Vuejs with Google LightHouse score of 92 and added Push notification using Firebase Cloud Functions.
iOS: Reduced the image size that is uploaded from iOS devices by 90% which saved a lot of storage space.