Akash Bhalotia

Co-Founder

Hyderabad, Telangana, India6 yrs 2 mos experience

Key Highlights

Founding Software Engineer at Cercli, Y Combinator S23.
Candidate Master on Codeforces with a rating of 1981.
Advanced to Stage 3 of Topcoder Open Algorithm Competition.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech-focused software engineer with strong competitive programming skills.

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Skills

Other Skills

Algorithm DesignAlgorithmsAndroid DevelopmentBack-End Web DevelopmentC (Programming Language)C++Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Computer ScienceCore JavaData StructuresDebuggingDistributed SystemsDjangoDjango REST FrameworkDocker Products

About

Highly passionate about Competitive Programming. Founding Software Engineer at Cercli (YC S23). Previously: Software Engineer at Google. Interned as a Software Engineer at Rubrik, as a Summer Analyst at Goldman Sachs, and as a Programming Contests Intern at Codechef (Directi). • Whiplash99 on Codeforces (Rating: 1981, Candidate Master, Top 350 in India) • akashbhalotia on Codechef (Rating: 2110, 5 star, Top 900 in India) • Global rank 163 & India rank 48 in Google Kickstart round H, 2020 (4.7k participants) • Global rank 515 & India rank 230 in Google Kickstart round F, 2020 (5.1k participants) • Global rank 533 & India rank 87 in Google Hash Code round 1, 2021 (8.9k participants) • Qualified for the Indian National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI), in 2017 and 2018 • ICPC Asia Regional 2019 Kanpur rank 72 • ICPC Asia Regional 2019 Amritapuri rank 297 • Qualified for the Topcoder Open 2020 Southern Asia Regionals • Advanced to Stage 3 of the TCO Algorithm Competition, securing a rank of under 200 • Cleared the advanced level of Codechef's Data Structures and Algorithms Certification exam (CCDSAP) Relevant links: • https://codeforces.com/profile/Whiplash99 (Codeforces: Candidate Master) • https://www.codechef.com/users/akashbhalotia (Codechef: 5 star) • https://icpc.global/ICPCID/X2VS6VCFZH7V (ICPC Performance History) • https://github.com/akashbhalotia

Experience

6 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 2 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 6 mos

Current Experience

Cercli (yc s23)

Founding Engineer

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Hybrid

Building Rippling for the Middle East and North Africa.

Google

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jan 2024 – Dec 2024 · 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Risk and Compliance Engineering Workflows, Risk Management System.
Creating new tooling to automate and manage compliance across Alphabet.

Software Engineer

Jul 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Google Payments - Anti-Financial Crime/Anti-Money Laundering.

Rubrik, inc.

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2022 – Jun 2022 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Interned in the DLC (Data Life Cycle) team at Rubrik.

Goldman sachs

Summer Analyst

Jun 2021 – Jul 2021 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Interned in the Alloy (Data Model) Engineering Team:
Interned in the team dealing with open-sourcing the firm’s data management software, for banks to exchange data with their regulators easily.
Open-Sourced a Data Query and Transformation library, by decoupling the proprietary and non-proprietary parts into two separate libraries with 0% code duplication.
Restructured the entire Python code base to make it scalable, maintainable and future-proof, by building an extension mechanism to interface any interaction between libraries.
Ran comprehensive tests, debugged, and deployed the libraries to production.

Unacademy

Contests and Learning Team Intern (Codechef)

Sep 2020 – Apr 2021 · 7 mos

Interned in the Learning Team at Codechef:
Set, tested and coordinated Codechef's Division 3 contests.
Tested Codechef's Programming Aptitude League problems.
Wrote problem summaries for Codechef's Long Challenge problems.
Set problems for Codechef's Newsletter.
Provided Competitive Programming related expertise to various teams wherever required.

Directi

Contests and Learning Team Intern (Codechef)

May 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

Interned in the Learning Team at Codechef:
Set, tested and coordinated Codechef's Certification in Data Structures and Algorithms Programme (CCDSAP).
Tested and coordinated External Rated Contests (ERCs) and Company Hiring Contests.
Created a practice resource with 50+ Competitive Programming problems (Classical Section).
Performed plagiarism detection using MOSS on Codechef contests.
Wrote Editorials (problem solution explanations) for Codechef's Cook-Off contests.