Akash Sharma
Senior Software Engineer at Paddle
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAkash Sharma is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native backend systems across startups and scaleups, currently focusing on payments platform work at Paddle. He brings deep expertise in AWS and GCP and is fluent in Go, .NET Core, Rust, and Node.js, having led migrations and performance-driven refactors that cut infrastructure costs and increased throughput. At NowFloats he built serverless analytics, an image optimizer, and a searchable elasticsearch-backed service—work that illustrates his focus on pragmatic, measurable impact. His multi-cloud and systems background lets him bridge platform engineering and product needs, delivering reliable, cost-efficient services. Based in Edinburgh, he combines startup agility with production-grade engineering rigor and a track record of shipping end-to-end backend solutions.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar
English, Hindi, Japanese
Github Skills (78)
middleware9
sink9
streaming9
confluent9
kafka-connector9
router9
api8
remote-control8
server8
kafka8
razorpay8
golang7
databases7
database7
kafka-connect7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
akashsharma95/fcache
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
simple in-memory cache with an HTTP interface
Contributions:28 commits in 7 days
akashsharma95/rusty_v8
Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
V8 javascript bindings for Rust
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
v8-javascript-enginerustjavascriptjavascript-bindingswasm
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