Summary
Akshay Hedau is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with 10 years of full-stack experience building customer-facing and platform services using C#, Java, React, and TypeScript. He has a strong cloud and data background—working with AWS, Terraform, Redis, ElasticSearch and message queues—and a track record of shipping scalable features and automation from his Ellie Mae and Microsoft roles. Early work ranges from embedded C++ voice clients and offline speech recognition to web crawling and ETL, showing a comfort with both low-level systems and high-productivity web stacks. He holds a Master’s in Computer Software Engineering from San José State University and is based in San Jose, bringing Bay Area engineering rigor to product-focused delivery. A hackathon winner who built a serverless notification system and a developer who helped migrate Perl crawling tools to Java, he combines pragmatic engineering with an appetite for cross-domain problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Software Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Software Engineering at San José State University
Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering at Pillai Institute of Information Technology
English, Hindi, Marathi