Akash Yadav
Software Engineer at App Dev for All
Pimpri-Chinchwad, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAkash Yadav is a Software Engineer II based in Bengaluru with ~7 years of experience building fintech systems and backend services across top-tier firms including Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. He blends practical production experience in financial technology with hands-on contributions to open-source mobile tooling, having improved HTML lexing, autocompletion and editor ergonomics in the popular Android code editor library sora-editor. Comfortable across Java and Android ecosystems and experienced in backend automation and platform work, he has a track record of shipping reliability-focused features and editor-level UX fixes. Akash’s early work ranges from a DRDO research prototype to automation and templating projects at Citi, reflecting a mix of research curiosity and delivery discipline. Now at Microsoft, he continues to apply that combination of systems-minded engineering and UI-level polish to solve complex product problems.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at D Y Patil International University
Hindi, English, Marathi
Github Skills (7)
html10
javas10
android10
java10
code-editor9
autocomplete9
syntax-highlighting8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Rosemoe/sora-editor
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
A multifunctional Android code editor library. (aka CodeEditor)
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:7 reviews, 63 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Akash primarily contributed to the `sora-editor` project by adding new features and fixing bugs related to the HTML language support within the Android code editor. Their work included the implementation of HTML lexing, auto-completion features for HTML tags and attributes, and fixing issues in the text editor's touch event handling, such as the handling of selected text clicks and the cursor behavior. The user also made enhancements to the editor's keybinding functionality, adding shortcuts for common actions like duplicating lines and selecting the current word, and adjusting the general editor behavior.
maven-centralcustomviewandroidauto-completioncodeeditor
AndroidIDEOfficial/AndroidIDE
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:17 releases, 158 reviews, 1944 commits in 1 year 6 months
full-featuredgradlecollaborateopenjdk11autocomplete
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