Akhil Arjun
Vice President, Payment Services at Goldman Sachs
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolAkhil Arjun is a fintech engineering leader with 11+ years of experience designing scalable frontend and onboarding systems, currently serving as Vice President for Payment Services at Goldman Sachs. He specializes in frontend architecture (React, TypeScript, Next.js) and system design for complex user journeys, having reimagined legacy platforms into cloud-native, modular architectures that cut advisor onboarding work by 70% and reduced client onboarding timelines from weeks to under 48 hours. Akhil combines hands-on UI craftsmanship—an “irrevocable love for JavaScript and CSS”—with distributed systems patterns (microservices, event-driven design, Global RDS) to deliver high-availability, high-performance platforms. He’s led 20+ engineer teams across cross-functional initiatives, translating ambiguous business needs into pragmatic, extensible technical solutions. Based in Mumbai, he brings a mix of startup grit (co-founder experience) and institutional rigor, with a pragmatic focus on performance, modularity, and measurable user experience improvements.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Holy family convent high schoolBachelor of Technology (BTech), electronics and biomedical engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), electronics and biomedical engineering at Model engineering college
English, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil
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Github Skills (47)
api-client9
javascript9
jsdelivr9
api9
traffic9
rest-api8
api-testing8
jquery8
router8
angularjs8
vue8
rest8
websocket8
testing8
nodejs7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
akhilarjun/UI-Library
Jul 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
akhilarjun/akhilarjun
Jul 2020 - Aug 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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