Summary
Akash Gajare is a Data Engineer with 8 years of industry experience and 2+ years focused on building scalable big data pipelines, near-real-time ingestion workflows, and distributed processing systems. He has hands-on expertise with Spark/PySpark, Kafka, HDFS, Hive, Databricks, BigQuery and GCP, and applies star-schema modeling to deliver analytics-ready datasets. Akash has a track record of performance tuning complex pipelines, mentoring junior engineers, and working cross-functionally to turn business requirements into production data solutions. His background includes roles across Axis Bank and Inshorts, plus early mentorship and web development work at IIT Roorkee, reflecting both technical depth and teaching aptitude. Known for automating repetitive tasks (he jokes about spending an hour automating a five-minute job), he brings a pragmatic, efficiency-first approach to engineering. Based in Maharashtra, India, he combines enterprise banking experience with startup-speed execution to drive reliable, scalable data platforms.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee