Akshay Bist
Principal Software Engineer at Reliant AI
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAkshay Bist is a Principal Software Engineer based in Berlin with 13 years of experience building and scaling backend systems, distributed services, and authentication infrastructure. He has guided services from early-stage scale to large-scale reliability at companies like Postman—shaping auth, session management, access control, and observability—and most recently works on generative AI systems at Reliant AI. Comfortable deep in the stack, he pairs systems programming and type-safety instincts with pragmatic product thinking and an increasing focus on user impact. His background includes hands-on work in Django-based products, payments and migrations, and early analytics/logging platforms, giving him a rare blend of legacy-app empathy and cloud-native architecture expertise. Known for spotting non-obvious failure modes at scale, he also mentors teams through growth and technical hiring.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
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Github Skills (171)
api-platform10
newman10
visualizations10
runner10
sdk10
frequency10
recurring10
rewire10
tom10
elastic10
postman-collection10
docker-image10
kibana10
json-report10
postman10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
postmanlabs/newman-docker
Jul 2015 - May 2018
Docker images for Newman Collection Runner
Contributions:5 releases, 180 commits, 60 PRs in 2 years 10 months
newmandocker-imagedockerdocker-imagesrunner
elssar/blog
Mar 2021 - Jul 2023
Akshay's personal blog
Contributions:11 PRs, 6 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 3 months
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