Akash John
Co-Founder at Vulk Coop
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Top SchoolAkash John is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder with 16 years of experience building and shipping production-grade systems across backend, DevOps, and full-stack roles. Based in Ho Chi Minh City, he has led engineering teams and product lines—most recently launching an internal linking product built with Rails, Postgres and spaCy—and previously scaled scraping, billing and analytics systems that processed terabytes and billions of pages. A hands-on engineer who also kickstarted DevOps functions and engineering processes, he blends leadership with deep implementation skills in Ruby, Elixir, Crystal and infrastructure automation. He is an active open-source contributor and maintainer-level collaborator on well-known projects such as asdf (the extendable version manager) and the Heroku Elixir buildpack, focusing on refactors, build systems and deployment integrations. Notably, he wrote parts of a CNCF Telecom CNF TestSuite in Crystal, showing a willingness to adopt niche languages for hard engineering problems. Pragmatic and curious, he pairs product-minded thinking with a track record of improving reliability, developer experience and deployment workflows.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Information Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Information Science and Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological University
Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, English
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Github Skills (55)
database-migrations10
javascript10
erlang10
software-design10
apidoc10
scripting10
elixir10
rails10
bash10
refactor10
cicd10
ruby10
emberjs10
script10
api10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
HashNuke/heroku-buildpack-elixir
Feb 2014 - Aug 2022
Heroku Buildpack for Elixir with nitro boost
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 254 commits, 39 PRs in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Akash primarily contributed to setting up and maintaining the build process and environment for an Elixir-based Heroku buildpack. Their work included creating scripts for setting up environment variables, managing dependencies, and configuring paths. Key contributions involved separating functions into separate files for better organization, downloading and installing Erlang, Elixir, and Rebar, as well as defining build and install procedures within the buildpack.
heroku-buildpackherokunitro-boostbuildpackelixir
cloudfuji/kandan
Mar 2012 - Apr 2012
A Cloudfuji chat application
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:163 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:The user, Akash Manohar J, primarily focused on setting up and integrating various technologies for the chat application. They installed and configured Jasmine for testing and Devise for user authentication. Further, they incorporated an Ember.js front-end, including the addition of dependencies, controller setup, and basic view integration. The commits also show the integration of Faye for real-time communication and the initial setup of a basic channel and activity listing functionality.
chatnodejschat-application
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