Akshay Minocha

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering teams to develop innovative testing platforms.
Published 7 papers in top-tier conferences.
Expert in data ingestion and mobile platform development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused engineering leader with expertise in data-driven product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementPlatform DevelopmentProduct ManagementTeam LeadershipVisual TestingData EngineeringSystem DesignSoftware DevelopmentMobile EngineeringBackend DevelopmentSearch EngineeringResearch EngineeringData ProcessingMachine Learning

Other Skills

Platform ReliabilitySystem ArchitectureDeveloper ExperienceCross-Functional CollaborationMentoringProduct DevelopmentIntegrationPlatform InitiativesTeam ScalingData IngestionPipeline DesignTeam BuildingUDP ArchitectureMobile Platform DevelopmentData Center Management

About

Passionate to build meaningful products, currently leading a team of engineers to develop a Visual testing platform to take Browerstack's testing to the next level. Worked with team building and being responsible for delivering data ingestion pipelines and mobile platforms in an objective-driven team environment. Startups interest me, have worked with a consumer internet company as well and took a dig at solving accuracy for search targeting regional Indian vernacular audience. Before working on products, was a research guy, have published 7 papers in A/B level conferences and worked with various international research groups around NLP, eye tracking in machine translation, legal information retrieval, etc.

Experience

Browserstack

6 roles

Director of Engineering at BrowserStack

Promoted

Oct 2025 – Present · 5 mos

Leading large-scale engineering teams building and scaling BrowserStack’s manual, visual and their AI-driven testing platforms used by global enterprises.
Owning platform reliability, developer experience, system architecture, and customer impact across core quality products.

Platform ReliabilitySystem ArchitectureDeveloper ExperienceEngineering ManagementPlatform Development

Senior Engineering Manager

Apr 2023 – Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Managing all engineering aspects of Visual Testing - Percy Product, Percy Platform, Website Scanner and App Percy.
Scaled and led multiple engineering teams (10–20+ engineers, including EMs and senior leads), driving execution across platform and product squads.
Led cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, and Go-To-Market teams to align engineering execution with business growth.
Mentored and grew engineering managers and senior engineers, fostering ownership, long-term technical vision, and operational efficiency.
Lead initiatives to release two additional products for BrowserStack (App Percy and Website Scanner).

Visual TestingCross-Functional CollaborationMentoringProduct ManagementTeam Leadership

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2020 – Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Led engineering at Percy during its M&A with BrowserStack, driving integration across the BrowserStack platform while scaling the Percy team to ~10 engineers. Spearheaded platform initiatives to enhance scale, stability, performance, accuracy, and browser integrations, delivering critical features and extended support to unify the ecosystem.

IntegrationPlatform InitiativesTeam ScalingEngineering ManagementPlatform Development

Team Lead

Apr 2019 – Mar 2020 · 11 mos

Initial design and implementation for the data ingestion system as an individual contributor which later translated to a reliable engineering component in the organization.
Started my own team with three other people, the focus of the team was to build an efficient ingestion pipeline and set standards for data accuracy from products as well as revenue across the organization.
Designed and developed the data ingestion pipeline to handle 100M packets of all product, revenue, and engineering data in the organization.
Delivered a UDP based listener architecture with an efficiency of 99.99% SLA to scale and handle traffic
Leada team of 7 Engineers to deliver and maintain the team components.

Data IngestionPipeline DesignTeam BuildingData EngineeringTeam Leadership

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2018 – Mar 2019 · 11 mos

My role here is to build applications around the mobile platform, which hosts and provides a device lab covering a variety of operating systems and device management protocols to be used by customers who utilize them to test their content over mobile browsers or as applications. We maintain data-center hosting along with the application technology, spread across multiple data centers.

Mobile Platform DevelopmentData Center ManagementSoftware DevelopmentMobile Engineering

Software Engineer

Jan 2017 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

Samosa labs

Software Engineer

Jul 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Handled backend operations for the Samosa App (1million+ users) with one other colleague.
Search was my focus for the flagship product. Catering to search on levels of accuracy, spell correct, vernacular and preference of languages for users. Latency reduced by 65%, server costs for search reduced by over 70% and content engagement via search increased by 30%.
Developed a group chat application in Erlang using ejabberd xmpp and riak.
Developed the complete backend on Google App Engine for an e-commerce marketplace 5pm Bazaar.
Managed in-app activity and retention metrics to suggest developments which resulted in better user engagement.

Backend OperationsSearch OptimizationBackend DevelopmentSearch Engineering

Copenhagen business school

Research Intern

Jul 2014 – Aug 2014 · 1 mo · Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Research into areas leading to Translation Data Analytics (TDA) during the summer of 2014.

Google

2 roles

Student Developer @ Apertium, Google Summer of Code

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos

A little inconsistency in the data can make the Machine translation go wrong in various ways. This project aims to convert non-standard language and data into a standard text which can be accurately translated using the MT systems of Apertium.

Mentor @ Apertium, Google Code-in 2014

Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr

The responsibility of the mentors is to lend a helping hand to pre-university students as they learn how it is to work on a open source project. In this month long period various students approach the organisation and assist in tasks that have been sorted out to challenge and improve their expertise.

Copenhagen business school

Research Intern

May 2013 – Aug 2013 · 3 mos

Collaborated with the Machine Translation group at CRITT (Copenhagen Business School) under Michael Carl and Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Research) on modeling translator expertise.
Developed a predictive system leveraging eye-tracking and keystroke activity data to recognize certified vs. non-certified translators and estimate years of experience.
Achieved significant error reductions in expertise recognition tasks through unsupervised activity sequence modeling (N-gram based classification, Random Forests).
Published findings in ACM ETRA 2014 (Recognition of Translator Expertise using Sequences of Fixations and Keystrokes), establishing one of the first quantitative approaches to translation process research

Lexical computing ltd

Research Engineer

Jan 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · Remote

Developed various technologies to come up with state of the art corpora for research and also for commercial purposes, to be a part of the sketchengine (http://sketchengine.co.uk/) resources.
Major significance on setting up the 'Feed Corpus Project' - Built an intelligent feed aggregation system (Twitter + RSS) scaling to 150K feeds and 300M+ unique words/month, delivered as a corpus resource to LexisNexis and research orgs via Lexical Computing.
Published research paper at ACL SIGWAC 2013 (Feed Corpus: An Ever Growing Up-To-Date Corpus).

Corpus DevelopmentFeed AggregationResearch EngineeringData Processing