Akshay Sharma
Senior Software Engineer at Superbet
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Sharma is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and optimizing cloud-native, distributed systems across startups and large platforms. He has driven multi-hundred-thousand-dollar annual savings through pragmatic infra work—migrating CI to GitHub Actions, shifting clusters to arm64, and tuning Postgres to run on smaller RDS instances. At Fresha he built a Go-based developer portal and standardized Docker/BuildKit strategies that multiplied developer productivity and slashed image build times. His background includes hardening and scaling Kubernetes at Yelp (contributions to PaaSTA and autoscaling tooling) and productizing backend systems for YC-backed Glowing.io, showing both platform and product sensibilities. An early winner of the Smart India Hackathon and a Y Combinator Startup School alumnus, he blends entrepreneurial grit with hands-on engineering. Based in London, he pairs deep systems expertise (Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, Postgres) with a knack for measurable operational impact.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Startup School Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Startup School Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Y CombinatorMachine Learning Nanaodegree Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Nanaodegree Artificial Intelligence at UdacityHigh School Non-Medical Student, High School Non-Medical Student at Ramjas School, Pusa RoadBachelor’s Degree Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
English
Github Skills (14)
data-structures10
algorithms10
kubernetes10
docker10
infrastructure10
paas10
python10
dynamic-programming10
data-structure10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
sorting-algorithms10
cicd9
algorithm9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/paasta
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
An open, distributed platform as a service
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 8 commits, 11 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Akshay primarily contributes to infrastructure and configuration changes within the PaaSTA platform. Their commits involve adding labels to Kubernetes pods, modifying Kubernetes deployment configurations, and updating the PaaSTA version. These changes suggest a focus on managing and maintaining the Kubernetes infrastructure as well as streamlining the deployment process. The user also made updates to documentation, further indicating a role in improving the operability and usability of the PaaSTA platform.
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TheAlgorithms/Python
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
All Algorithms implemented in Python
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs in 18 days
Contributions summary:Akshay's contributions focused on implementing and refining Python-based algorithms. They worked on data structures, specifically binary tree traversals, as well as various sorting algorithms. Additionally, the user implemented a dynamic programming solution for the Fibonacci sequence. The commits show an emphasis on code style, exception handling, and addressing edge cases.
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