Akshat Akshat
Member Of Technical Staff at MarkovML
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAkshat Akshat is a backend-focused software engineer with five years of experience building scalable microservices and production ML workflows, currently a Member of Technical Staff at MarkovML in Bengaluru. He pairs practical product delivery—shipping notification systems, auth microservices, and MLOps deployments—with active open-source work, including 100+ merged commits to Zulip where he improved markdown rendering, emoji handling, and GitHub link shortening. His CNCF LFX mentorship on Harbor produced an official Harbor CLI, and he’s been an MLH Fellow, GSoC contributor, and Jina AI mentee who turns prototypes into demonstrable integrations. Comfortable moving between startups and research, he focuses on developer experience and readable, maintainable code. An IIIT Hyderabad alumnus, he’s driven by curiosity and building solutions that scale.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MLH Fellow, Prep Program - 4.1.5, MLH Fellow, Prep Program - 4.1.5 at MLH FellowshipBachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician at International Institute of Information Technology
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (12)
markdown10
chat10
markdown-it10
back-end-development10
python10
collaboration9
github9
javascript9
javascripts9
api8
api-doc8
postgresql6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zulip/zulip
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:110 reviews, 106 commits, 71 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Akshat primarily contributed to the Zulip server's backend functionality, focusing on bug fixes, improvements, and new feature implementations. Their work included enhancing emoji handling, resolving markdown rendering issues for YouTube and Vimeo previews, and correcting quote merging behavior. They also updated the Zulip user agent and added support for shortening GitHub links within the markdown processing, demonstrating a focus on improving the user experience and platform integration.
pythonweb-applicationcollaborationzulipjavascript
akshatdalton/zulip
Oct 2020 - Sep 2022
Zulip server - powerful open source team chat
Contributions:69 commits, 287 pushes, 111 branches in 1 year 11 months
team-chatchatzulip
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