Akash Borkar
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAkash Borkar is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with 4 years of hands-on experience building production-grade systems across top tech companies including Uber, Wayfair, Confluent, Zeta, and Flipkart. Trained at IIT Kharagpur in Computer Science, he brings a strong foundation in algorithms, programming and mathematics to design efficient, reliable services in large-scale environments. His career shows rapid progression through backend and platform roles, contributing to commerce and streaming infrastructure at firms known for high-throughput systems. Akash pairs deep technical curiosity with pragmatic delivery—comfortable diving into algorithmic optimizations as well as operationalizing services in production. Though his GitHub activity is minimal publicly, his track record across diverse engineering teams suggests a focus on impactful, behind-the-scenes system work rather than visible open-source signals. He is motivated by algorithmic elegance and solving hard engineering problems that improve performance and scalability.
3 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Arya Gurukul (CBSE)Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurHigh School Science, High School Science at Birla School, Kalyan (W)
English, Hindi, Marathi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
confluent10
kafka-connect10
kafka-connector10
storage10
kafka10
sink10
google-cloud-storage10
azure-blob-storage10
confluent-cloud10
cloud-storage10
connectors10
apache-kafka10
streaming10
aws9
amazon9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
akash-borkar/kafka-connect-storage-common
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Shared software among connectors that target distributed filesystems and cloud storage.
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
sinkazure-blob-storagecloudcloud-storagefilesystems
confluentinc/kafka-connect-storage-common
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Shared software among connectors that target distributed filesystems and cloud storage.
Contributions:3 reviews, 12 commits, 4 PRs in 3 months
sinkconfluent-cloudkafka-connectorazure-blob-storagecloud
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