Akshat Baranwal
Software Engineer 2 at PayPal
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolAkshat Baranwal is a Senior Software Engineer based in Mumbai with eight years of experience building backend systems and analytics platforms across fintech, mobility, and media. He has strong Java/C++/SQL skills and a proven track record delivering production services at scale—migrating 10M user profiles at Jio, improving payments success at Zoomcar, and leading dashboard and analytics API work at PayPal. At PayPal he also built an Agentic AI assistant using LLMs and RAG to enable natural-language chart creation and save significant developer time, reflecting a blend of practical engineering and AI experimentation. Comfortable shipping under tight deadlines, he routinely coordinates across teams to migrate hundreds of charts and onboard hundreds of internal users securely. Now at JioHotstar, he continues to apply his platform and analytics expertise to drive measurable product impact. Colleagues describe him as enthusiastic and curious, often picking up new tools and approaches to solve ambiguous problems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceGithub contributions (5)
akshat654/Wavelet-Neural-Network
Jan 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
akshat654/Note-a-matic-csv
Feb 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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