Akash Aggarwal
Research Assistant at La Trobe University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAkash Aggarwal is a Research Assistant based in Melbourne with 10 years of experience blending public health research and practical software contributions. He designs and executes mixed-methods studies—developing search strategies, obtaining ethics approval, building data collection instruments, and performing descriptive and inferential analyses—while ensuring timely stakeholder communication and project reporting. Skilled in academic writing and navigating peer-reviewed submissions, he also conducts web audits and manages longitudinal project progression. Technically fluent on the backend, he has contributed to the popular Thredded Rails forum engine by implementing messageboard locking and related tests and UI updates, highlighting a capacity to translate research needs into reliable code. His background—an MPH from La Trobe and a decade in applied research—makes him adept at turning complex datasets and governance requirements into actionable insights. Notably, he pairs rigorous methodology with hands-on engineering, bridging academic research and open-source practice.
9 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Public Health, Master's degree, Public Health at La Trobe University
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Github Skills (18)
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
integration-testing9
activerecord9
test-integration9
html8
forum8
erb8
mongodb6
ruby-on-rails6
auto-increment6
nodejs6
android6
genymotion6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
thredded/thredded
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
The best Rails forums engine ever.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 23 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Akash focused on implementing and refining features related to message board functionality within the Thredded Rails forum engine. Their contributions included adding the "locked" field to messageboards, controllers, and forms, and creating an integration test for locking a messageboard. They also addressed policy fixes, and adapted the UI to reflect the locked state of messageboards.
railsrails-engineevermessage-boardforum
akashagarwal7/ohmyzsh
Dec 2019 - Jan 2024
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with nearly 1,500 contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 200+ optional plugins (rails, git, OSX, hub, capistrano, brew, ant, php, python, etc), over 140 themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
pythonrails-pluginszsh-configurationauto-updatecapistrano
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