Akshay Kant
Head Of Engineering at Agant
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Kant is a product-focused engineering leader with 10 years of experience building payments, blockchain infrastructure, and digital asset platforms across firms like Visa and Chainalysis. He has led protocol onboarding for complex networks (Ripple/XRPL, Stellar, Solana, TON) and driven scalable onboarding practices and automation to make crypto data products production-ready. At Visa he architected tokenization and on-chain identity solutions, confidential token contracts, and multi-chain stablecoin designs that bridge banks, custody, and compliance. As a Member of the Bank of England CBDC forum and now Head of Engineering at Agant, he blends central-bank-grade thinking with hands-on platform delivery for regulated stablecoins and capital-market-ready digital assets. He pairs an AI and blockchain master’s from the University of Edinburgh with practical ML, Typescript and Go skills, and is known for translating emerging protocol ideas into repeatable engineering processes. Notably, he moves fluidly between research-led initiatives and productisation—making experimental crypto primitives auditable and usable in regulated environments.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence at The University of EdinburghDeep Learning Nanodegree, Deep Learning, Deep Learning Nanodegree, Deep Learning at UdacityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering at SRM IST ChennaiInter School, Science, ISC, Inter School, Science, ISC at St. Peter's College
English, Hindi
Github Skills (10)
java7
blockchain7
ethereum6
p2p5
mobile-application5
kong4
android3
algorand2
smart-contracts1
ide1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
akshaykant/Algorithm-and-Data-Structure
Mar 2020 - Jun 2024
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
akshaykant/Android_Development_HKUST
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Introduction to Mobile Application Development using Android by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology-edx
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
androidkongmobile-application
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