Akshay Shekhawat
Co-Founder & CTO at Hyperbrowser
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Shekhawat is a serial founder and CTO with 12 years of software engineering experience, now leading Metlo and Hyperbrowser from San Francisco. He builds and ships security-first backend systems, having co-created Metlo—an open-source API security platform that inventories endpoints and blocks malicious traffic in real time. Prior to founding startups he engineered marketplace systems at Uber and contributed to research and teaching at academic labs, blending production-grade delivery with strong technical mentorship. His hands-on work includes building test data generation frameworks and producers for realistic API security testing, tying synthetic traffic to backend traces. Comfortable across product, ops, and engineering, he focuses on measurable security outcomes and rapid deployability. Colleagues describe him as an operator-founder who turns security concepts into practical, auditable tooling.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (7)
python10
api-testing10
test-automation10
apidoc9
api9
javascript5
yaml4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
metlo-labs/metlo
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Metlo is an open-source API security platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:25 releases, 320 reviews, 417 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Akshay primarily worked on implementing a test data generation framework for API security testing. They developed Python scripts to create sample data for testing various API endpoints. Their work included creating multiple producers to simulate user behavior, like making purchases and registering for accounts, and configuring these producers to generate test data for different endpoints. The user also focused on tying the test data generation to the backend, making the requests with API keys and saving the traces.
api-gatewaybugbountypentestmethodologyaws
project-domino/project-domino
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:180 commits, 159 pushes, 12 comments in 2 months
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