Akshay Patil
Director Of Product, Core Deliver at Shopify
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAkshay Patil is a product leader and former engineer with 16 years of experience building platform and consumer products across Google, Foursquare, Lyft, and Shopify. He specializes in APIs, geo, search, mobile, and user-generated content, and currently leads a large product team at Shopify responsible for inventory, orders, fulfillments, returns, and extensibility. Akshay has a proven track record of turning vague concepts into revenue-driving products—most notably creating a new licensing and data business at Foursquare and lifting Lyft rides by ~5% through UX and retention improvements. He moves fluidly between technical implementation and strategic partnerships, having negotiated major licensing deals and led full-stack initiatives like Real-Time Search at Google. Comfortable in startup and enterprise settings, he also founded a Samsung Accelerator startup and guided teams through acquisition and shutdown events, demonstrating resilience and operational rigor. Trained at MIT in math and computer science, he brings a quantitative mindset to product decisions and platform design.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (36)
searchview10
foursquare9
android9
oauth9
credentials7
nsstring6
html6
iframe6
logging6
api6
iphone6
emoticons6
facebook6
authentication6
ios6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
akdotcom/akdotcom-homepage
Feb 2019 - Mar 2024
Homepage
Contributions:28 PRs, 59 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 1 month
foursquare/foursquare-app-framework
Jun 2012 - Jun 2012
Contributions:7 commits in 5 days
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