Akash Joshi
Senior Software Engineer - API Engineering at DeepL
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAkash Joshi is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in API engineering and real-time voice systems, currently building DeepL’s Voice API and managing core public APIs that handle millions of monthly requests. With nine years of experience across startups and scale-ups—Meta, Rocket Connect and founding The Writing Dev—he blends full-stack delivery with production-grade observability using Grafana and Sentry. He’s a serial open-source contributor focused on making apps easier to build, with front-end work on notable projects like HASH and Block Protocol and PWA/offline improvements for the popular Kutt URL shortener. Comfortable shipping both UIs and backend systems, Akash has a track record migrating large sites to modern stacks (Next.js/MDX) and scaling critical user-facing services to millions of daily users. He combines hands-on engineering with community building—organising GraphQL events—and a pragmatic focus on developer experience and reliability. Based in Manchester, he brings a blend of entrepreneurial initiative and production-scale API expertise to AI and agentic workflow problems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology
French, English, German, Hindi, Marathi
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Github Skills (15)
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front-end-development10
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react10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
hashintel/hash
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
🚀 The open-source, multi-tenant, self-building knowledge graph
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:217 reviews, 298 commits, 70 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Akash primarily worked on the front-end components of the project, specifically within the "embed" blocks. They modified code related to displaying and handling embedded content from various providers, including a wide range of services. The changes involved adding new provider types and improving the user interface for embedding URLs. They also worked on a video block, which indicates some degree of responsibility for media-related components.
block-editordata-managementhashrustworkspace
blockprotocol/blockprotocol
Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
✨ The open-source standard for blocks. From @hashintel
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:96 reviews, 40 commits, 40 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Akash primarily contributed to the front-end development of the `blockprotocol/blockprotocol` repository. Their work involved building a partners page, including the creation of forms and user interface elements. They implemented responsive design features to improve the user experience across different screen sizes. Additionally, they addressed pre-rendering issues related to the Twind library and replaced an SVG logo with a PNG.
ethereumblockchainblock-protocol
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