Akshay Soni
Senior Engineering Manager at Zendesk
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Soni is a Senior Engineering Manager based in San Francisco with 8 years of experience building platform and infrastructure teams, currently leading engineering at Zendesk. He progressed through technical and managerial roles at Zendesk after earlier hands-on engineering and team lead positions at Eden and ZypMedia, bringing a track record of scaling systems and teams through rapid growth and acquisitions. Akshay blends deep platform engineering instincts with people leadership, focusing on reliable infrastructure and developer productivity. His background includes an MS in Computer Science from the University of Houston and a BE in Computer Science from Maharashtra Institute of Technology, reflecting strong academic foundations paired with practical execution. Notably, he moved from individual contributor to senior manager roles within the same product domain, showing an aptitude for both shipping code and mentoring engineering leaders. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic, infrastructure-minded leader who elevates teams while keeping production stability front and center.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at University of HoustonBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at Maharashtra Institute of Technology
English, Marathi, Sanskrit, Hindi
Github Skills (26)
authentication8
browser8
plugin-architecture7
windows7
rails7
linux7
macos6
spree6
firefox6
android6
devise6
continuous-delivery6
ruby6
architecture6
webpack5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
edenwizards/rubill
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Ruby library for Bill.com's API
Contributions:2 pushes in 12 days
paymentsapiapi-srubybill
akshay-soni/behue
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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