Akash Saxena
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolAkash Saxena is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft India with 11 years of experience building full-stack, AI-driven and cloud-native solutions, particularly in agriculture and scalable backend systems. He leads Agri CoPilot, an Azure OpenAI-powered tool that enables natural-language queries across diverse data sources, and helped build an AI app serving over a million farmers with actionable crop, weather, and pricing insights that was showcased in Microsoft keynotes. Comfortable across TypeScript, C#, and Azure services, he has a track record of shipping production integrations for chatops, pipelines, and ML-driven workflows. Early work includes embedded and networking platforms at Cisco and hands-on community leadership organizing GDG events at BITS Pilani, reflecting a blend of systems-level engineering and developer outreach. Known for turning domain complexity into usable products, he focuses on measurable impact in the intersection of AI, cloud, and agriculture.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceHigh School, Computer Science, High School, Computer Science at Boys' High School & College
English, Hindi
Github Skills (49)
react-component-library10
react-components10
javascript10
microsoft10
ui-components10
typescript10
web-components10
component-library10
azure10
fluentui10
office-ui-fabric10
react10
microsoft-azure9
sdk9
dotnet8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
akashperfect/mylib-c-programs
Feb 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:37 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
akashperfect/office-ui-fabric-react
Jun 2017 - Jul 2018
React components for building experiences for Office and Office 365.
Contributions:9 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
reactoffice-365experiencesreact-componentsfor-office
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