Akshay Shekher
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Meta
Vancouver, British Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Shekher is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 13 years building scalable AI, systems and backend services across Meta and AWS, now leading humanoid robotics and AI infrastructure work at Meta Robotics Studio. He has deep expertise in productionizing multimodal and conversational AI for consumer devices (Smart Glasses, Messenger/WhatsApp integrations) and has driven knowledge-graph and real-time grounding efforts that connect LLMs to live world data. Prior experience at AWS/Amazon spans query and storage engines, low-code platforms, and high-throughput document/vision pipelines where he cut PDF processing latency by 60%. A pragmatic full-stack engineer and frequent open-source contributor, he has improved stability and concurrency in Go indexing libraries and added practical features across OSS projects from chat tooling to editor UX. Based in Vancouver, he combines strong systems engineering with applied AI research experience and a track record of shipping cross-disciplinary products that bridge hardware, perception, and language.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering at Chandigarh Engineering College
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
algorithm10
json10
vala10
algorithms10
file-management10
gtksourceview10
user-interface10
twitter-api10
chat10
php10
gtk10
go10
chat-application10
server10
concurrency10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
shazow/ssh-chat
Dec 2014 - Oct 2021
Chat over SSH.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 9 commits, 9 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Akshay primarily contributed to back-end functionality, focusing on user interaction and server-side logic. Their work included implementing an autocomplete feature for user nicknames within the chat application, refactoring the code to integrate the autocomplete function with the server struct. Additionally, they incorporated locking mechanisms to manage server state and addressed configuration variables for timestamp settings. This user also added a number of "readline" navigation options. They also fixed several issues and bugs.
chatsshssh-chatserver
blugelabs/bluge
Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
indexing library for Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 7 commits, 5 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Akshay primarily focused on improving the stability and functionality of the indexing library. Their contributions include initializing the aggregations map within the `AllMatches` search function to resolve a potential panic. They added a data-race detector test to identify and address potential concurrency issues within the in-memory directory implementation, as well as fixing calls to lock/unlock in the same directory. Further, they added documentation for the `TopNSearch` struct and exposed the sloppiness parameter in the `Query` and `Searcher`.
golangindexinggosegment
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