Akshit R. Desai

Software Engineer @Instaview.ai | MACS @Concordia University, Montreal


I am

Hi there! Welcome to my portfolio page.

I am an enthusiastic developer who enjoys building awesome products and loves to get his hands on learning new tools and technologies. To gather new experiences and to develop new interests, I've worked on many projects in different tech-stacks.
Experienced in competitive programming and also got selected for ACM ICPC Kanpur regional-2019/20.

Open to opportunities and challenges.

Resume

Skills


Some of the significant aptitudes which will assist me with achieving our objectives.

DS & Algorithms

80%

Golang

80%

C-C++

70%

Python-Django-Flask

70%

Java

60%

SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL)

70%

NoSQL (Mongo, Redis, Cassandra)

70%

DevOps(Docker, Kubernetes)

60%

Work Experience


Amazon Vancouver, Canada

Software Dev. Engineer - I (May 2024 - Present)
Software Dev. Engineer Intern (May 2023 - Aug 2023)

(Typescript, AWS, Scala, Ruby, Datapath)

- Engaged in daily stand-ups, updating on project progress, discussing challenges, and collaborating with senior developers to gather requirements and contribute to design processes.
- Implemented data pipeline to dump data into S3 Bucket using automated cradle jobs, and its job-profiles. And, injected data to DynamoDB using AWS CDK(Typescript) to create automated resources(GlueJobs, DynamoDB etc)
- Created new API views using Datapath(Amazon’s Declarative Language) and service APIs using Scala (Coral framework), enabling approximately 15 teams at Amazon to seamlessly integrate with the service.
- Improved observability by adding alarms using an internal Lpt framework (Ruby) and metrics for new and existing APIs.

Instaview.ai

Software Engineer - Contract (Aug 2023 - May 2024) | Remote, Canada
(Golang(Gin), DDD, RabbitMQ, AWS, Backblaze, MQTT)

- Developed backend services with more than 50 APIs from scratch with domain-driven architecture in Go.
- Designed complex workflows connecting IoT devices with the system and integrated AWS IoT components such as things, things shadow, certificates, life-cycle events and other communications through MQTT.
- Helped to AI team setting up kubeflow with Custom RBAC on the local server.
- Engineered a comprehensive wrapper library for internal use, simplifying AMQP for RabbitMQ, AWS, Backblaze, MQTT, middlewares, validators, and push notification clients(i.e., APNS, FCM, and Pushy) across microservices.

Kamivision

Software Engineer - Contract (Apr 2022 - May 2023) | Remote, Canada
(Golang(Gin), TDD, Kubeflow)

- Developed and fixed different APIs for core back-end services in Golang. Enforced pagination and reduced latency for core APIs by 50%.
- Programmed CLI tool for AI team to get videos from kinesis video streams for analyzing and training AI models, automating manual efforts of 2 days, and optimized further with go routines.
- Helped to AI team setting up kubeflow with Custom RBAC on the local server.
- Revamped Unit-testing and CI pipeline in major back-end services. Educated team with Unit-testing & integration testing, reducing number of production failures and bugs by 50%.

ZopSmart Banglore, India

Software Engineer (June 2021 - Apr 2022)
Software Engineer Intern (Feb 2021 - May 2021)

(Golang, Kafka, DevOps, TDD, Data Engineering)

- Architected and optimized Golang-based ETL pipelines for kroger.com, US, and its subsidiaries, achieving seamless migration, synchronization, and merging of user data; handling daily traffic of 9 million users and ensuring uninterrupted data flow.
- Introduced & engineered distributed locking mechanism, Data fix Scripts, DB-retry features, resolving data discrepancy errors; Automated Bulk data migration using shell scripts, reducing 8 hours of manual efforts.
- Maintained and setup deployment pipelines on harness from scratch; Stimulated monitoring process by adding Grafana and Dynatrace tools for data visualization.

CEREBULB Gandhinagar, India

Software Developer Intern (Jul 2020 - Oct 2020)
(Python, Django, Flask, eel, PostgreSQL, code optimization)

License Portal - Build Rest-API service for the software licensing portal.
- API includes User authentication, Dynamic Product & License creation, Update & check license validaty. (Flask, PostgreSQL, pyAesCrypt)
WITS Connect - Worked on building a Desktop application for smooth and lossless data transmission between WITS and OPC server in drilling machinery using TCP/IP and Serial communication. (Eel, PostgreSQL, opcua)

Leadership


GCET CodeChef Chapter

President (May 2019 - Jun 2021)
Building a robust Competitive Programming culture on campus and helping students become better problem solvers fostering learning and professional development.

Campus Representative (March 2019 - May 2020)
Actively nurtured programing culture on campus by conducting technical sessions on DSA,C++ STL and Java collections etc., for competitive programming.

Contact


On the off chance that you might want to connect with me, be it for instigating innovation, business, or to simply say hello, don't hesitate to send me an email at akshit.r.desai@gmail.com

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