Akshay Sharma is a Senior Software Engineer based in Jaipur with 11 years of experience building Android applications and mobile libraries, currently contributing at PSPDFKit. A Google Certified Android Developer, he brings deep expertise in Java, Kotlin, Android SDK and MySQL, and has progressed from hands-on Android roles to engineering leadership and IT management. His open-source work includes PixImagePicker and Oblique, where he implemented feature-rich image picking and custom image display components that improve UI/UX and media handling. At Cavista and AavasFinanciers he combined product delivery with team-level ownership, shipping maintainable, refactored code and resolving production issues. An autodidact and creative tinkerer, he frequently refactors and optimizes libraries to mimic polished consumer experiences like WhatsApp’s image picker. He holds a B.Tech in Computer Science and pairs pragmatic engineering with a curious, freelance-minded approach to solving mobile UX challenges.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at St. Soldiers Se. Sec. School
B.Tech, Computer Science, B.Tech, Computer Science at Maharishi Arvind Institute of Engineering & Technology
Pix is a Whatsapp image picker replica. with this, you can integrate an image picker just like WhatsApp.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:1 release, 267 commits, 46 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Akshay primarily focused on developing and improving the Android-based image picker library, "Pix." Their contributions involved implementing new features like video integration, resolving reported bugs, and refining the user interface. They made improvements by refactoring existing code and optimizing image capture functionality. The user's work significantly enhanced the library's usability and expanded its feature set, making it a closer replica of the WhatsApp image picker.
With Oblique explore new styles of displaying images
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:1 release, 79 commits, 4 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Akshay primarily focused on developing and updating the Android application, "oblique." Their work involved implementing features and making improvements to the `ObliqueView` custom component, allowing for image manipulation and display with various slant angles and effects. The user also added UI elements and improved the overall user interface. Additionally, they updated the sample application and incorporated the necessary dependencies for the project.
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Akshay Sharma - Senior Software Engineer at PSPDFKit