Akshaya Kumar
Senior Software Engineer at hims & hers
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolAkshaya Kumar is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of engineering experience and 8+ years specializing in backend systems, distributed architectures, and REST APIs for eCommerce and logistics. He has driven measurable production improvements—leading migrations and scaling efforts that boosted picking efficiency by 170% and query performance by 4800%—and has owned end-to-end backend modules from design through delivery. Comfortable in microservice and monolithic environments, he has built payment/referral/trade-in systems and warehouse workflows using languages and tools like Ruby on Rails, Kotlin, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and message queues. A Carnegie Mellon Software Management master's graduate, Akshaya blends strong operational instincts (runbooks, data-fix scripts, production support) with product-minded engineering and occasional tech talks and demos that make complex systems accessible. He is seeking exclusively backend-focused roles in distributed systems where he can continue to optimize throughput and reliability at scale.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
10th CBSE, 10th CBSE at The PSBB Millenium SchoolBachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering at College of Engineering, GuindyMaster's degree Software Management, Master's degree Software Management at Carnegie Mellon UniversityAISSCE 12th CBSE, AISSCE 12th CBSE at DAV Girls Senior Secondary School
English, Tamil
Github Skills (11)
testing10
rspec10
lint10
ruby9
static-analysis9
rails8
rubocop8
audio4
mp34
player4
music4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
akrox58/emo
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:63 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
akrox58/rubocop-rspec
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Code style checking for RSpec files
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 branches in 6 days
code-stylerailsrubycheckingrspec
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