Akshay Mankar
Backend Operations Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Mankar is a Backend Operations Engineer based in Berlin with 14 years of experience building and hardening backend services and developer tooling. At Wire since 2020 he focuses on reliable server-side systems and SCIM/API work, while earlier roles at Pivotal and ThoughtWorks honed his engineering rigor across production environments. He contributes to notable open-source projects like Wire's backend and the Haskell Stack tool, adding features, tests, and bug fixes that improve dependency tooling and output formats. Known for pragmatic improvements—such as enhancing dependency tree/JSON outputs and integration tests—he blends operational responsibility with developer-focused backend craftsmanship. His long-running commitment to backend reliability and practical tooling demonstrates a preference for solving "the abyss" with measurable, test-backed fixes.
14 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 Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology
English, Hindi, Marathi, German, Italian
Github Skills (12)
testing10
dependency-management10
command-line-interface10
test-integration10
back-end-development10
haskell10
integration-testing10
command-line10
server9
wires9
json9
rust5
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
wireapp/wire-server
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
🇪🇺 Wire back-end services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 985 reviews, 499 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Akshay's commits primarily focused on back-end development within the Wire server project, specifically related to the Scim schema and API. Contributions included code changes for features, fixing bugs, and making code more readable and consistent. The user also made updates to the build dependencies.
backendwireserverhaskellrust
commercialhaskell/stack
Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
The Haskell Tool Stack
Role in this project:Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:21 commits, 7 PRs, 21 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Akshay primarily contributed to enhancing the `stack` tool, focusing on the `ls dependencies` command. They implemented features like printing dependencies as a tree and JSON format, adding integration tests for verifying the output. Further contributions involved fixing bugs related to dependency display, including correct version printing and respecting target specifications, demonstrating a focus on improving the tool's functionality and reliability through testing.
haskell
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