Akshay Aggarwal
Software Engineering Manager at Chainlink Labs
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Aggarwal is a software engineering manager with five years of professional experience building and leading teams across high-scale platforms at Meta/Facebook and Chainlink Labs. He combines hands-on backend engineering—contributing to critical components of the Chainlink decentralized oracle node—with people leadership, currently managing engineering efforts at Chainlink Labs from the UK. His technical work shows a focus on reliable distributed systems, error handling, and on-chain/off-chain integrations, including fixes to keeper registry and log poller logic in a widely used open-source project. An IIT Kanpur computer science graduate, he brings the discipline of a top engineering education to production-grade software and cross-functional collaboration. Notably, his transition from individual contributor at Facebook to manager roles reflects a strong blend of executional depth and team-building aptitude.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Github Skills (6)
error-handling10
chainlink10
go10
backend10
back-end-development10
blockchain9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
smartcontractkit/chainlink
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
node of the decentralized oracle network, bridging on and off-chain computation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1533 reviews, 455 commits, 474 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Akshay made several contributions related to the Chainlink node's core functionality, including updating error handling, and refactoring the code to use the `errors.Is` and `errors.As` methods for error management. They also modified core files associated with job specification, log poller, and the Chainlink's web infrastructure. Furthermore, their work included fixes in the implementation of the keeper registry and the modification of some helper functions related to transaction handling.
golangcomputationethereumblockchaindecentralized
smartcontractkit/chainlink-automation
Oct 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:391 reviews, 120 PRs, 355 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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