Akshat Singhal
Director Of Engineering at ZopSmart
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAkshat Singhal is a pragmatic engineering leader based in Bengaluru who builds scalable, low-maintenance products and systems that solve real-life problems. As Director of Engineering at ZopSmart he leads large, distributed organizations and remains hands-on with Go and DevOps while overseeing Java and React development. His career traces rapid, cross-functional growth from hands-on mobile and backend engineering to defining platform architecture and API-first practices that decouple teams and accelerate delivery. He has repeatedly delivered high-performance, lightweight customer apps and resilient infra—migrating regions without downtime and cutting payment failure and response times dramatically. Akshat favors incremental evolution over big-bang rewrites, and introduced OpenAPI-driven development at scale to improve frontend-backend collaboration. He combines an ideator’s curiosity with operational rigor, aiming to free engineers from mundane work so they can tackle higher-impact problems.
3 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, NOIDA
English, Hindi
Github Skills (31)
microservice-framework10
observability10
go-framework10
databases10
grpc-go10
http-server10
go10
golang10
opentelemetry10
web-framework10
rest-api10
logging10
microservices10
server10
database10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
akshat-kumar-singhal/gofr
Aug 2024 - Jul 2026
An opinionated GoLang framework for accelerated microservice development. Built in support for databases and observability.
Contributions:2 PRs, 88 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year 10 months
Realm-ID/sdk
Apr 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 release, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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