Akarshit Wal
Senior Software Engineer at Messagink
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAkarshit Wal is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building scalable full-stack systems, currently at Mailchimp and founder of a cross-platform storytelling app. He combines deep backend expertise (Node.js, GraphQL, performance tuning) with strong frontend/editor work (React, Processing, NetLogo IDE), and has driven measurable improvements like 10x application performance gains and major search relevance lifts. Akarshit is an active open-source contributor to notable projects such as NetLogo and Processing, where he implemented editor features like Trie-based code completion and robust UI fixes. He also streamlined release and automation workflows for Reaction Commerce and built real-time trading dashboards that cut network and data transfer costs dramatically. Comfortable leading teams and end-to-end product delivery, he pairs entrepreneurial product instincts with academic grounding from Georgia Tech.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 8.16, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 8.16 at National Institute of Technology Hamirpur
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (55)
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github-ci10
javascript10
python10
inventory-management10
ecommerce10
trie10
cd10
user-authentication10
authentication10
nextjs10
ui-design10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
reactioncommerce/reaction-development-platform
Feb 2021 - Nov 2021
Reaction Platform is the quickest way to run Reaction (reactioncommerce/reaction) and dependent services—Reaction Admin (reactioncommerce/reaction-admin) and Example Storefront (reactioncommerce/example-storefront)
Role in this project:
Release Manager & Automation Engineer
Release Manager & Automation EngineerContributions:5 releases, 5 reviews, 44 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Akarshit primarily focused on automating the release process for the Reaction Development Platform. Their commits involve modifying the `release.py` script and related configuration files (`config.mk`) to manage version bumping, changelog generation, PR creation, and GitHub release creation. The user also made changes related to updating the development platform's dependencies and configurations for various releases and the removal/reversion of features. These changes suggest a focus on streamlining the release workflow.
reactioncommercemailchimpopencommercereactadminecommerce
reactioncommerce/example-storefront
Dec 2018 - Sep 2021
Example Storefront is Reaction Commerce’s headless ecommerce storefront - Next.js, GraphQL, React. Built using Apollo Client and the commerce-focused React UI components provided in the Storefront Component Library (reactioncommerce/reaction-component-library). It connects with Reaction backend with the GraphQL API.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 8 reviews, 36 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Akarshit made significant contributions to the frontend authentication and account management features. They refactored the authentication methods, integrating `account-js`, and implemented modal components for login, signup, and password management. These changes involved modifying core components and integrating new dependencies related to user accounts and sessions. The user also addressed a login flow issue from the checkout page.
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