Akhil R

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 5 mos experience

AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led a team of 14 engineers at Razorpay.
Developed an AI tool for bookmark management.
Implemented security solutions for fintech applications.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with strong fullstack and AI development capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Frontend DevelopmentTeam LeadershipSystem PerformanceSecurityFullstack DevelopmentAi Development

Other Skills

AJAXAdobe FireworksBackbone.jsBloggingBuild ToolsCI/CDCSS3CircleCIConversion OptimizationDigital MarketingDrupalE2E testingEntrepreneurshipGitGoogle Adwords

About

As a software engineer at Stripe, I apply my expertise in fintech, web development, and AI to create cutting-edge financial technologies that scale, delight, and secure millions of users worldwide. I am passionate about technology's role in solving real-world problems and committed to advancing the industry through knowledge sharing and continuous learning. Previously, I was the lead frontend engineer at Razorpay, where I led and scaled a team of 14 high-performing software engineers in planning, guiding, and solutioning. I spearheaded major improvements in micro-frontend architectures, system performance, and security, resulting in a 50% improvement in delivery lead times and a 20% increase in sales conversions. I also built a fully automated alerting and monitoring system for frontend applications, and implemented a robust encryption solution for credit card data. I am also an innovative tech entrepreneur and the founder of Markie, an AI-powered tool that revolutionizes bookmark management in browsers. I designed and developed Markie from scratch, using VueJS, GraphQL, Python, NodeJS, and MongoDB. I built an HTML document parser and a simple recommendation engine for automatic categorization and tagging of bookmarks. I graduated with a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering from Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology in 2017. During my studies, I published an IEEE paper on detecting specific learning disabilities in children, using a web-based tool that I developed. I also started my entrepreneurial journey at the age of 14, when I amassed $30,000 by flipping websites for profit.

Experience

6 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

2 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Stripe

Software Engineer

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Increasing the GDP of the internet.

Razorpay

Lead Frontend Engineer

Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led and scaled a team of 14 high performing software engineers in planning, guiding and solutioning.
Built and maintained a scalable monorepo solution for micro-frontend applications, using lerna, yarn, webpack and module federation.
Built a fully automated alerting and monitoring system for frontend applications for distributed teams, thus improving the MTTD and MTTR.
Improved delivery lead time by 50% by decoupling and automating frontend systems at scale by leveraging module federation for micro frontend apps.
Improved sales conversion by 20% by creating performant and accessible pages.
Implemented a robust encryption solution by leveraging Web Crypto api for end-to-end encryption of Credit Card related information of the user.
Wrote tech specs as a part of the documentation, architected frontend applications, and enforced coding conventions to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Gave multiple internal and external talks for knowledge sharing among frontend engineers in the organisation.

micro-frontend architecturessystem performancesecurityalerting and monitoring systemencryption solutiontech specs+4

Markie

Founder

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr · India

Designed and developed Markie from scratch. It's a tool that uses AI to automatically categorize, tag and recommend bookmarks. It consists of two different parts: a web app and a browser extension. (https://getmarkie.com)
Frontend consists of two parts - a web app and browser extension both built in VueJS and GraphQL. Backend also consists of two parts - an AWS Lambda function (in Python) and a NodeJS Express app (on top of GraphQL) with MongoDB as the backend.
Built an HTML document parser in Python for automatic categorisation of bookmarks.
Built a simple recommendation engine for showing similar bookmarks.

VueJSGraphQLPythonNodeJSMongoDBHTML document parser+3

Upwork

Software Engineer

Aug 2017 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs

Worked with 2 companies - one was a medium sized team (as a Wordpress developer) and the other was a fast-paced startup with a small sized team (started as ReactJS developer but turned into fullstack role soon after).
Shipped core features for both frontend and backend app - which included user onboarding, building UI components, redesign of the app, charts and graphs with simple animations, etc.
Implemented E2E testing with Puppeteer which reduced the number of reported bugs drastically due to better quality of shipped features.
Built and maintained a component library using Storybooks in the form of a private npm package.
Built and deployed a micro-service to generate email templates based on the email type, using Serverless framework.
Added CI/CD for projects, I worked with, using CircleCI.

WordpressReactJSE2E testingPuppeteercomponent libraryCI/CD+2