Akshat Patel
Senior IOS MacOS Engineer (Orion Browser Team) at Kagi
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAkshat Patel is an Apple Platforms engineer with 12 years of experience building iOS, macOS and visionOS apps and SDKs, currently contributing to the Orion Browser at Kagi. He has shipped platform features and SDK improvements at PSPDFKit and DJI that have reached billions of end users, including Apple Pencil Scribble support and robust cross-version UI components. Comfortable working remotely, he excels at written communication, goal-setting, and improving developer workflows—evidenced by CI test-retry automation and Objective-C-to-Swift migrations. His hands-on work spans mobile UI/UX refinements (gesture handling, edge-scrolling) to backend integrations and subscription state machines. He also publishes technical writing and maintains a personal portfolio of independent apps, signaling both product curiosity and a knack for end-to-end delivery.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology at U. V. Patel College of Engineering, Ganpat UniversitySt. Kabir SchoolDiploma in Java Core and Advanced Java, Diploma in Java Core and Advanced Java at C-DAC Gist Pace ProgramUniversity of California, Irvine
English, Gujarati, Hindi
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Github Skills (6)
swift10
gesture-recognition10
ios10
user-interface10
ui-design9
objective-c4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
simsaens/Menu
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
The iOS Menu
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Akshat primarily focused on refining the user interface and interaction of the iOS Menu application. Their commits reveal bug fixes, including gesture handling and edge-scrolling issues. Furthermore, they made attempts to distinguish flick gestures from taps and made iterative changes to improve user interaction, demonstrating a focus on application usability.
swiftiosmenu
PreternaturalAI/homebrew-preternatural
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
Custom Homebrew tap for installing PreternaturalAI's command line tools.
Contributions:63 releases, 2 PRs, 85 pushes in 6 months
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