Akshay Birajdar
Senior Software Engineer at Principal Global Services
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolAkshay Birajdar is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable backend systems using Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, React, and databases. Based in Pune, he has a strong track record of performance optimization and systems design across enterprise projects at Atos and Principal Global Services. He is pragmatic about solving complex problems and is actively deepening his cloud expertise to bridge backend reliability with better user experiences. Akshay is also an open-source contributor to prominent Ruby projects like rails/rails and aasm, where he fixed core bugs and improved database and state-machine behaviors—demonstrating a willingness to improve foundational tooling beyond his primary tech stack. He values continuous learning and collaborative delivery, seeking roles that combine technical challenge with real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree IT Engineering, Bachelor's degree IT Engineering at Progressive Education Society's Modern College of Engineering
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Github Skills (20)
application-framework10
ruby-rails10
testing10
app-framework10
rails10
ruby10
state-machine10
activerecord10
web-framework10
mysql9
postgresql9
database-design8
version-control6
ruby-on-rails6
payu6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rails/rails
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 7 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Akshay contributed to the Ruby on Rails framework by implementing and refining core functionalities. Their work included improvements to database adapter features, such as adding support for `bigint` in MySQL and PostgreSQL. Furthermore, they addressed issues in attribute handling, specifically related to default function values in Active Record models. They also improved mailer previews and made general improvements to the framework's internals by removing unnecessary code.
ruby-on-railsrailsframeworkrubymvc
aasm/aasm
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
AASM - State machines for Ruby classes (plain Ruby, ActiveRecord, Mongoid, NoBrainer, Dynamoid)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Akshay primarily focused on enhancing the AASM state machine library. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to state display and localization issues, refactoring code to use default display names, and improving event handling by adding `to_s` methods to events. Furthermore, the user added comprehensive specs for display names and improved the existing codebase.
ruby-on-railsmachinesmongoidrailsfsm-library
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