Akshat Akshat
Member Of Technical Staff at MarkovML
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAkshat Akshat is a backend-focused software engineer with six years of experience building scalable services, currently a Member of Technical Staff at MarkovML in Bengaluru. He has a strong open-source track record—most notably contributing 100+ merged commits to Zulip (improving markdown, previews and integrations) and delivering the official Harbor CLI during CNCF LFX mentorship. His background spans MLOps, microservices, notifications and production ML deployments from internships and roles at TrueFoundry, SentiSum, Differentiall and others, plus research in dictionary learning at IIIT-H. Akshat favors readable, maintainable code and has shipped practical features like configurable notification systems and split-payment logic for event platforms. Less obvious: he combines academic research instincts with pragmatic product delivery, often taking mentor and project-manager duties to accelerate team output.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MLH Fellow, Prep Program - 4.1.5, MLH Fellow, Prep Program - 4.1.5 at MLH FellowshipBachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician at International Institute of Information Technology
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (11)
markdown10
chat10
markdown-it10
back-end-development10
python10
collaboration9
github9
javascript9
api8
apidoc8
postgresql6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zulip/zulip
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:110 reviews, 106 commits, 71 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Akshat primarily contributed to the Zulip server's backend functionality, focusing on bug fixes, improvements, and new feature implementations. Their work included enhancing emoji handling, resolving markdown rendering issues for YouTube and Vimeo previews, and correcting quote merging behavior. They also updated the Zulip user agent and added support for shortening GitHub links within the markdown processing, demonstrating a focus on improving the user experience and platform integration.
pythonweb-applicationcollaborationzulipjavascript
akshatdalton/zulip
Oct 2020 - Sep 2022
Zulip server - powerful open source team chat
Contributions:69 commits, 287 pushes, 111 branches in 1 year 11 months
team-chatchatzulip
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