Akshat Sharma
Member Of Technical Staff at Stealth Startup
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshat Sharma is a seasoned engineering leader and hands-on software engineer based in San Francisco with over a decade of industry experience and a total career spanning nearly two decades. He has led and scaled cross-functional teams at NerdWallet—standing up Wealth and Vertical Expansion orgs and managing 20 direct reports across multiple regions—while also shipping consumer-facing products like NerdWallet Tax Filing and long-lived credit card recommendation flows. Comfortable across the full stack, Akshat has deep front-end and backend experience (micro frontends, Node.js, JS tooling) as well as a history in big-data analytics and Java backends from earlier roles. He founded a stealth startup focused on mapping social media influence for public safety and election integrity, reflecting an interest in applied research and civic-impact engineering. Known for building practical infrastructure (logging/log-redaction libraries) and speeding SEO/performance, he combines product-minded execution with mentorship and operational rigor. His MSIT from Carnegie Mellon complements a track record of joining early teams and turning ambiguous problems into production systems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.E Information Technology, B.E Information Technology at Maharishi Dayanand University 2006MSIT Information Technology and Management, MSIT Information Technology and Management at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (65)
slider-component10
complexity10
requestanimationframe9
code-visualization9
static-analysis8
samba8
visualization8
range-slider8
directories7
slide7
javascript7
youtube7
react-component7
sonos7
static-code-analysis7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
akshat1/horace2
Nov 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:42 PRs, 68 pushes, 38 branches in 7 months
ebooknodejsdiscworldebook-server
akshat1/video-hoarder
Oct 2019 - Jul 2022
YouTube-dl frontend for data hoarders.
Contributions:1 review, 322 commits, 102 PRs in 2 years 9 months
frontendyoutubeyoutube-dl
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