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.
4 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
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Github Skills (15)
kafka-connector10
kafka-connect10
confluent10
apache-kafka10
kafka10
streaming10
hadoop9
cloud-storage9
aws9
aws-s39
hdfs9
big-data9
elasticsearch9
distributed-file-system8
amazon-s38
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
cloud-storagedistributed-file-systemkafkakafka-connectconfluent
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