Akash Chandrakar
Senior Manager at Cognizant
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAkash Chandrakar is a Senior Manager and data governance specialist with over 15 years of experience in IT services, blending technical delivery with governance and business analysis expertise. He has deep hands-on experience with Informatica Axon, SDLC practices, and Agile delivery across large enterprises such as Cognizant, Citi, and TCS. With an MBA in Finance from ICFAI and a BE in Computer Science, he bridges technical and business perspectives to design auditable, scalable data solutions. Beyond governance, he contributes to open-source cryptographic infrastructure—improving logging, query performance, and prover-side components in the high-profile zkSync Era project—demonstrating low-level backend and database optimization skills. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex regulatory and data-quality requirements into pragmatic engineering workstreams. He is based in Pune and known for combining research-driven thinking with practical delivery to drive measurable data governance outcomes.
3 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Bhilai Institute of Technology (BIT), DurgMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Finance, General, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Finance, General at ICFAI Business School
Github Skills (8)
zksync10
database-management10
rust10
postgresql10
cryptography10
indexer9
indexing9
distributed-systems9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
matter-labs/zksync-era
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
zkSync era
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 2 commits, 25 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Akash's contributions primarily revolve around the core infrastructure and cryptographic aspects of the zkSync Era project. They fixed logging issues, updated the cryptographic libraries, and improved the efficiency of database queries. The user also made modifications to the setup and loading of node aggregation circuits, demonstrating a focus on the prover side of the system. Furthermore, they have added crucial database indexes for optimized query performance.
akash-chandrakar/era-zk_evm_abstractions
Oct 2023 - Oct 2023
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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