Akshat Bansal
Co-Founder at Zapp Chess
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolAkshat Bansal is a founder and product-focused technologist with 11 years of experience building consumer-facing products and startups from Mumbai. He co-founded Zapp Chess to create a guilt-free way to enjoy free time, and previously launched ventures including Rootin and Force Structural Engineers, blending product, engineering and business leadership. At Blinkit he led consumer product and growth initiatives—owning launches from membership and personalization to the playbook for express delivery—translating bold ideas into operational blueprints. Trained as a civil engineer at IIT Bombay, he began his career in structural design before transitioning to full-stack product engineering, having built backend systems in Python/Django and handled devops on AWS. Currently diving into machine learning while continuing hands-on Python development, he pairs startup grit with a rare mix of physical-world operations experience and software delivery. Colleagues would note his appetite for turning ambitious, cross-functional experiments into scalable customer experiences.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
St. Anselm's Senior Secondary SchoolIndian Institute of Technology Bombay
English, HindiGithub contributions (5)
dizzy54/cat_dog_cnn_keras
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
dizzy54/fplbot
Aug 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:67 commits, 49 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
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