Summary
Akshay Narang is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building web applications, currently contributing to Soundstripe from Nashville. He brings a rare blend of music background and technical depth—holding a BA in Music and trained at Nashville Software School—where that intersection informs creative product thinking for music-focused tech. His career includes sustained Ruby on Rails and full-stack work across startups and agencies, shipping production apps for media, political tech, and sports. Known for iterative, client-facing development and strong testing practices (Cucumber, RSpec), he excels at translating user needs into maintainable features. Based in Nashville, he pairs domain empathy for creators with pragmatic engineering to deliver socially minded, user-centric products.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Music, Bachelor's degree, Music at James Madison University
Nashville Software School