Akshay Mahajan
Senior Software Engineer II at DigitalOcean
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Mahajan is a Senior Software Engineer II with over a decade of experience building and operating large-scale, globally distributed backend systems and cloud-native platforms. He specializes in Go, Kubernetes, and distributed systems, currently focusing on performance, reliability, and observability for object storage at DigitalOcean after shaping high-traffic merchant services at Shopify. As a founding engineer and former Technology Head, he has end-to-end ownership experience taking multiple SaaS products from concept to production, including architecture, APIs, and cost-efficient infrastructure. He contributes to open-source community tooling and forums, improving both frontend and backend features in notable projects like forem/forem. Comfortable in on-call rotations and multi-region rollouts, he thrives under strict latency and reliability constraints while mentoring peers and driving operational excellence. Based in New Delhi, he combines startup grit with large-scale production experience to deliver pragmatic, measurable system improvements.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Hansraj Model SchoolEngineer's Degree, Information Technology, Engineer's Degree, Information Technology at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Github Skills (11)
javascript10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
react9
backend9
front-end-development9
back-end-development9
css8
testing8
co7
open-source7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
forem/forem
Sep 2019 - Oct 2020
For empowering community 🌱
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Akshay primarily focused on enhancing the frontend and backend functionality of the forum. They implemented features in the reading list, modifying the reading time and updating associated tests. Additionally, the user added functionality related to community success notifications and added a z-index to the post editor dropdown. They also worked on fixing a bug related to deleting draft listings and integrating flare tags within articles.
reactrailsrubyempoweringfeedback
akshayymahajan/react-copy-content-demo
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:14 PRs, 11 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 2 months
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