Akshay Sharma is a Product Experience Engineer based in Bengaluru with four years of hands-on experience building polished front-end experiences and product-focused features. He has shipped UI fixes and interactive elements for notable open-source projects like Layer5, improving usability with cursor animations, cookie-driven navigation, and accessible media replacements. As a founding engineer at a startup and an intern at Layer5 and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, he blends product intuition with cloud-native and community-driven development practices. Akshay is comfortable moving from design details to implementation, prioritizing user-facing polish that reduces friction and improves adoption. He combines a BE in Computer Science with a penchant for quick, pragmatic coding—often visible in small but impactful UX patches across repos. Notably, his contributions emphasize thoughtful UX choices in infrastructure-focused projects, bridging developer tooling and product experience.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at CHANDIGARH UNIVERSITY
Contributions:3 reviews, 14 PRs, 5 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Akshay primarily focused on updating and fixing UI elements within the Layer5 project. Their contributions included updating the Twitter icon and fixing associated CSS in the handbook and social media sections. They also replaced a video on the signup form and implemented cursor animations within the Features component. Furthermore, they worked on implementing cookie-based logic for the navigation bar and adding drop-down menus within the same.
Contributions:133 pushes, 15 branches in 10 months
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