Akshit Jain
Software Engineer II at Uber
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshit Jain is a Software Engineer II based in the Netherlands with 10 years of experience building production systems across search, logistics, and research settings. Currently at Uber, he previously advanced relevance and autosuggestion quality and optimized delivery SLAs, service quality, and cost at Paytm. His background includes bioinformatics research at Columbia University, where he implemented XHMM to detect copy number variants in Alzheimer's exome data—evidence of a strong analytical foundation and comfort moving between domains. Hopping interests in UAVs and NLP hint at a penchant for applied research and experimentation beyond core backend engineering. Collected at IIT Guwahati, his profile blends rigorous academic training with hands-on delivery in high-scale consumer and research environments.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiHigh School, High School at St.Anselm's Sr. Sec. School - India
Github Skills (98)
word-segmentation10
robotics10
text-based9
tokenizer9
armadillo9
natural-language-generation9
neural-machine-translation9
verification9
nlp8
eigen8
ignition8
beaglebone-black8
bluetooth8
drake8
gazebo-simulator8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
akshitj1/algos
Aug 2015 - May 2022
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
akshitj1/drake
Nov 2019 - Jan 2021
Model-based design and verification for robotics.
Contributions:40 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
model-basedmodel-based-designroboticsverification
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