AAKASH VERMA

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led projects increasing revenue by $3M/year.
  • Refined onboarding processes, boosting conversion rates by 60%.
  • Engineered frameworks enhancing operational efficiency.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Full-Stack Developer with strong leadership capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

PythonDjangoTechnical Project LeadershipJavaSpring BootCAndroid

Other Skills

Apache KafkaMySQLKernelKernel DriversKernel ProgrammingMachine LearningACT AutomationGitlabGitHubSQLiteREST APIsGraphQLReact.jsTypeScriptScala

About

Experienced Software Developer | Staff Engineer | Full-stack Development | Team Leadership I am an experienced Software Developer with a strong background in full-stack development and team leadership. With significant contributions at Samsung R&D, PeopleHum, and Zenefits Technologies, I bring valuable expertise to each project. At Samsung R&D, I played a pivotal role in touchscreen and power module driver bring-ups for Samsung mobile devices, utilizing C, C++, Java, and Android. I also engaged in innovative research and patent filings. During my tenure at PeopleHum, I excelled as a Backend Senior Software Engineer, leveraging Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Elastic Search, and Python. I led teams, and oversaw project execution. Currently, at Zenefits Technologies, I lead a team responsible for Company Onboarding and Bulk Update features in the Zenefits HR portal, using Python, Django, React, and MySQL. I am passionate about continuous learning and seek new challenges to make a meaningful impact. Let's connect to explore collaborations and drive innovation together. Feel free to reach out to me at aakash.v.sky1@gmail.com

Experience

11 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 5 mos
Current Experience

Samsara

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Nielsen

Lead Software Engineer

Aug 2024Dec 2024 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Zenefits

Staff Software Engineer

Oct 2021Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Company Onboarding Refinements:
  • Led the refinement of the Company Onboarding module of the Zenefits HR Portal, enhancing user experience and increasing conversion rate by an impressive 60%.
  • Implemented Self-Serve Checkout and Support Guided Onboarding features, empowering company admins with flexible onboarding options.
  • Contractor Payments:
  • Directed end-to-end development efforts to repurpose the Zenefits platform, enabling seamless support for 1099 contract workers, addressing the significant sales loss of 60-70 new PEO wins per year by extending support to 1099 contract workers.
  • The implementation led to a remarkable $3M/year increase in revenue.
  • Background Check Module:
  • Spearheaded the Background Check module project, enabling seamless integration with various vendors for legal background checks and facilitated admins and managers in making informed hiring decisions by providing one-click access to background check reports.
  • Datagrid Framework:
  • Engineered the Datagrid framework, significantly reducing administrative effort and time by enabling bulk employee operations empowering admins with the ability to execute bulk operations effortlessly using spreadsheet templates or manual Datagrid entries.
  • Added flexibility by allowing updates to custom fields, enriching the system's customisation capabilities.
  • Support Admin Functionality:
  • Led the design and implementation of Support Admin functionality, significantly reducing issue resolution time and improving productivity.
  • Enabled seamless addition of Zenefits Implementation Managers and Engineers as Support admins with a single click, empowering company admins to resolve issues effectively, reducing query volumes and ensuring data consistency.
Technical Project LeadershipApache KafkaPythonDjango

Peoplehum

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2019Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Learn Management System:
  • Led a cross-functional team in designing and implementing a cutting-edge Learn Management System empowering organisations to upgrade employee skills and improve onboarding and compliance processes.
  • Enhanced the system to support hosting of courses on external platforms like Scorm, facilitating seamless content management.
  • ChatHum - Entity-coupled Chat Messenger:
  • Led the development and integration of ChatHum, a unique chat messenger tightly coupled with HR portal entities which facilitated seamless communication and collaboration across the portal, improving overall efficiency.
  • PeopleHum Attendance Module:
  • Designed and implemented an intuitive Attendance Tracking system, increasing customer onboarding count by 20%, allowing customers to customise attendance tracking preferences for different employee sets within the same organisation.
  • DailyHum - Event Reminder with Article Curator:
  • Developed and implemented DailyHum, providing personalised event reminders and curated article blogs based on user interests, improving user engagement and satisfaction by delivering relevant and timely content.
  • Customer Billing:
  • Engineered the Billing section, automating payment processes for customers and maintaining comprehensive payment histories.
  • Simplified payment processes, allowing customers to automate subsequent payments after initial setup.
  • Payroll Vendor Integration:
  • Coordinated with the payroll vendor, GreytHR, in regard with the APIs exposed by them and integrated these APIs to the PeopleHum portal from where employees can directly access their payroll details and tax declarations via SSO.
  • Upgraded the Attendance Tracking module in conjunction with the Payroll integration and devised the Loss of Pay Calculator, which keeps track of LoP days of each employee for the payroll period and is responsible to coordinate and maintain the data with the payroll vendor.
Technical Project LeadershipApache KafkaJavaSpring Boot

Samsung r&d institute bangalore

3 roles

Lead Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2018Jan 2019 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • System Intelligence:
  • Major contributor for ideation and designing the modules of System Intelligence - the project aimed to achieve sustained and glitch-free performance in Samsung smart-phones for the longest usage period for a user.
  • Designed and applied algorithms to improve user’s usage data management and make the system efficiently learn user’s behavior and requirements.
  • Resource Usage-based Context Detection Service (RUCDS):
  • Proposed and initiated this individual project aimed to enable the Samsung smart-phones to detect user’s current usage context by analyzing the resources being used and further applying power optimisations for a prolonged battery usage without compromising on the device performance.
  • Mentored interns at the later stages of the project, to help move towards project completion with maximum accuracy.
JavaPython

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2016Feb 2018 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Power module System Software Bring-up:
  • Supported the Power module Driver bring-up for Samsung Galaxy J7 MAX at Samsung R&D, South Korea. Further, gave presentations to Korean counterparts about SRI-B’s power optimisation solutions and got them pushed into the device for commercialisation.
  • Auto-adjusting Touch screen sensitivity:
  • Presented a seminar at SRI-B on this idea and developed an android service which could automatically adjust the touch sensitivity of the device based on the user’s current surrounding environmental data collected by the device.
  • UI Shift on a Broken Screen:
  • As a part of an Ideation contest to tackle real life smart-phone problems, presented and implemented the project which involved shifting the UI components of a touch-screen display to a user-preferred location on the display in case of an accidental breakage of the display causing hindrance in the UI visibility.
CAndroid

Software Engineer

Jul 2014Feb 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Ghost Touch Detection Tool:
  • Developed a tool for detecting and verifying Ghost touches on Samsung smart-phones.
  • Touch-Screen Panel module System Software Bring-up:
  • Supported the Driver bring-up and bug resolution for Touch-screen Panel module as a part of board bring-up and Samsung commercialisation.
  • Generic Hardware Tuning Tool:
  • Kick started with this first project in the industry. Developed the tool for tuning hardware parameters of various modules of Samsung smart-phones through a common framework,, in order to ease the testing process for the hardware engineer and gauge the best performance conditions of these parameters.
CJava

Education

P E S Institute of Technology, BANGALORE

BE - Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Science

Jan 2010Jan 2014

Jawahar Vidya Mandir (JVM), Shyamali

High School

Jan 2008Jan 2010

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