Akshat Maheshwari
Associate
Richardson, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshat Maheshwari is a software engineer with nine years of experience building high-impact backend systems and production ML pipelines, currently an Associate at Goldman Sachs. He combines a strong academic foundation from IIIT Hyderabad and UT Dallas with hands-on experience in distributed systems, Spring Boot/Node.js services, Kafka, and scalable data flows—having driven latency and cost reductions at Ola and built notification and change-stream systems at Goldman. His research and internship work spans NLP, generative AI, and 3D obstacle detection, reflecting a knack for moving cutting-edge models from prototype to integrated pipelines. An active open-source contributor, he has improved UX and content structure on the widely referenced git-scm.com site and implemented core algorithms in C/C++ for a popular algorithms repo. Beyond engineering, he has led teams to national success in basketball and served in student leadership roles, signaling strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor of Technology Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology Computer Science and Engineering at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
Github Skills (19)
algorithm10
algorithms10
c-language10
website-development10
c1110
data-structure10
c1710
mergesort10
html10
data-structures10
cprogramming-language10
rails9
ruby-on-rails9
bubble-sort9
css8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ZoranPandovski/al-go-rithms
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
:musical_note: Algorithms written in different programming languages - https://zoranpandovski.github.io/al-go-rithms/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs in 26 days
Contributions summary:Akshat primarily contributed to the repository by implementing various algorithms and data structures in C and C++. These implementations include sorting algorithms like Bubble Sort and Merge Sort, along with the Matrix Chain Multiplication algorithm, and the Job Sequencing Problem. Further demonstrating skills in data structures with the implementation of Square Root Decomposition using C++. The user also contributed by adding a merge sort using forking in C.
pythoncomputer-scienceprogramming-languagejavascriptalgorithms-and-data-structures
git/git-scm.com
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
The git-scm.com website. Note that this repository is only for the website; issues with git itself should go to https://git-scm.com/community.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Akshat primarily contributed to the website's About and Trademark sections. Their work involved adding and organizing content within the About section, including the addition of trademark information and navigation links. They also modified the sidebar for better navigation. These changes reflect UI/UX adjustments and content organization focused on the site's structure and information presentation.
git-scmscm
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