Akhilesh Ns
Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkhilesh Ns is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building web and mobile applications, currently working at Reddit and pursuing advanced studies in software engineering at Carnegie Mellon. He specializes in JavaScript ecosystems—React, React Native, Node.js and Electron—and has a track record of shipping cross-platform features, developer tooling, and deployment automation. His background spans product-facing frontend and mobile work, backend services, CI/CD and DevOps (including a GitHub Action for Heroku deployments), and practical efforts to improve codebases via TypeScript and GraphQL migrations. Akhilesh is particularly interested in the intersection of programming languages and developer experience, believing language-level guarantees can drive safer team practices. Comfortable moving between prototype and production, he brings both long-term product intuition from early projects and rigorous engineering discipline from enterprise-scale releases.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Science/Studies, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Science/Studies at B. M. S. College of EngineeringMaster's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
English, Kannada
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
heroku10
github-ci10
githubaction-workflow10
cicd10
nodejs9
git8
github8
state-management6
service-worker6
progressive-web-apps6
javascript6
webpack6
mobx6
react6
redux6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AkhileshNS/heroku-deploy
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
A simple github action that dynamically deploys an app to heroku
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:32 releases, 1 review, 199 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Akhilesh primarily contributed to setting up and configuring a Heroku deployment pipeline using GitHub Actions. Their commits involved modifying the `index.js` file to incorporate features such as custom buildpack configuration, branch selection, and health checks. The user also made enhancements to the deployment process, including adding options for environment variable injection and configuring a custom Procfile. The user's work focused on automating and improving the Heroku deployment workflow.
herokuheroku-deploymentdeploys
AkhileshNS/react-native-sk
Aug 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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