Akshay Mittal
Staff Software Engineer at PayPal
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAkshay Mittal is a Staff Software Engineer based in Austin with nine years of experience building full-stack systems and leading AI/ML-informed engineering efforts at large enterprises. He has progressed through hands-on engineering roles at Home Depot, Cox Automotive, and Charles Schwab before joining PayPal, blending product-facing development with technical leadership and architecture. Akshay pairs advanced academic training—a MS in Computer Science and ongoing PhD work in Information Technology—with pragmatic delivery of scalable services and cross-functional collaboration. He is comfortable across the stack, from backend systems to frontend UX, and brings research-oriented thinking to production problems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who translates complex requirements into maintainable systems and champions data-driven improvements. Outside core work he stays engaged with broader tech communities via GitHub and continuous exploration of AI/ML applications.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Information Technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Information Technology at University of the CumberlandsMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Texas State UniversityJawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
Hindi, English, Telugu, Marwari
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Github Skills (73)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
akshaymittal143/portfolio
May 2020 - May 2026
Contributions:17 pushes in 6 years
akshaymittal143/backend-webservice-using-Node-and-Express
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 11 PRs, 36 pushes in 15 days
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