Akshay Birajdar
Senior Software Engineer at Zendesk
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Birajdar is a Senior Software Engineer based in Pune with five years of experience building pragmatic web applications, currently focused on Ruby on Rails. He has progressed through engineering roles at Josh Software, Coupa, Mekari, and most recently Zendesk, demonstrating an ability to adapt across product and enterprise environments. Akshay favors technologies that solve real customer problems and brings a hands-on approach to shipping reliable backend systems. His background includes early exposure to embedded systems and machine learning during internships, giving him a practical cross-domain perspective few Rails specialists emphasize. Although his GitHub profile is maintained under a work account (@the-spectator), his career trajectory shows a pattern of taking on increasingly complex responsibilities in SaaS and B2B contexts.
5 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering at Army Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Army Institute of Technology,Pune
Github Skills (26)
debugging10
debug10
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
byebug10
html10
activerecord10
mruby10
ruby-on-rails10
procfile9
discourse8
api8
audit-trail5
audit4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
akshay-birajdar/discourse-search-banner
Nov 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 3 months
akshay-birajdar/discourse_api
Mar 2021 - Jul 2021
Ruby API for Discourse
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
apidiscourseruby-apiruby
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