Akash Srivastava
Software Engineer at BigBinary
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAkash Srivastava is a software engineer with 9 years of experience building reliable, high-throughput web platforms and APIs from Bengaluru. Currently at BigBinary, he combines backend engineering with product-focused work and has a track record of fixing subtle API bugs and improving integrations, including contributions to the popular GitLab Ruby wrapper and CLI. Previously he accelerated an assessment platform at eLitmus—cutting code execution times fivefold, migrating systems to GDPR compliance, and building AWS-backed DevSecOps tooling and proctoring prototypes. Comfortable across the full stack, Akash also mentors junior engineers and turns complex requirements into pragmatic, production-ready solutions. A detail-oriented developer and occasional writer, he brings both hands-on execution and a habit of improving developer workflows.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Honors, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Honors at Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College , GhaziabadIntermediate, PCM + Computer Science, A+, Intermediate, PCM + Computer Science, A+ at Naval's Academy
English, Hindi
Github Skills (11)
api10
gitlab-api10
apidoc10
ruby10
api-design9
restful-api9
gitlab-ci9
rest-api9
api-rest9
rspec8
rubygems8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NARKOZ/gitlab
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
Ruby wrapper and CLI for the GitLab REST API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 57 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Akash's primary contributions focused on fixing bugs and adding features to the GitLab REST API wrapper. This involved correcting argument handling in user creation, adding support for the user snippets API, and updating documentation for merge request options. They also updated the Runners API. The user also fixed instances of incorrect usage of HTTP methods.
ruby-wrappergitlab-apiapiruby-gemgitlab-cli
akashdotsrivastava/gitlab
Jun 2017 - Oct 2020
Ruby wrapper and CLI for GitLab REST API
Contributions:73 pushes, 54 branches in 3 years 5 months
ruby-wrapperapirailsrubygitlab
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.